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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 09. Statewide Health Care › Article 3. Dementia Awareness and Dementia Care Capacity. › Sec. 18.09.300. Dementia awareness and dementia care capacity.

(a) The department shall develop and implement an evidence-based, data-informed statewide dementia awareness campaign. The statewide dementia awareness campaign must include promotion of screening, early diagnosis, and treatment of dementia and assess appropriate levels of care and workforce capacity necessary for the population of persons affected by dementia in the state.
(b) To build statewide dementia awareness and health care capacity, the department shall
(1) use a public health approach to improve services and awareness of dementia and educate the public on strategies related to risk reduction, early diagnosis, and disease management;
(2) collect and monitor data to set priorities, develop public health actions, and address social effects of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia;
(3) focus on changing systems, environments, and policies to promote risk reduction, improve early diagnosis, prevent and manage comorbidities, and avoid hospitalizations;
(4) work with systems of care to identify ways to improve early diagnosis, primary care, care coordination, and development of the workforce for delivery of services to persons affected by dementia;
(5) engage community members and stakeholders in decision making; and
(6) develop a statewide strategic plan to improve systems of care infrastructure and awareness of dementia.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2024, the department shall submit a biannual report to the senate secretary and chief clerk of the house of representatives and notify the legislature that the report is available. The report must include a description of accomplishments, barriers, and recommendations for priorities related to dementia care in the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 09. Statewide Health Care › Article 4. General Provisions. › Sec. 18.09.990. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “assessable entity” means
(A) a health care insurer as defined in AS 21.54.500;
(B) an entity that provides the state health care plan described in AS 39.30.090 and 39.30.091;
(C) a public or private entity that offers a publicly funded plan in the state, to the extent participation in the program is authorized by law;
(D) a third-party administrator as defined in AS 21.97.900;
(2) “commission” means the Alaska Health Care Commission established in AS 18.09.010;
(3) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health;
(4) “council” means the State Vaccine Assessment Council;
(5) “covered individual” means an adult or child who resides in the state and who is provided insurance coverage for an included vaccine by an assessable entity or who is a patient of another program participant;
(6) “department” means the Department of Health.
(7) “included vaccine” means a vaccine recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and included on a list maintained by the commissioner for inclusion in the program;
(8) “other program participant” and “another program participant” mean a health care provider or group of providers who have opted into the program under AS 18.09.225 to both purchase vaccines for and administer vaccinations to residents of the state;
(9) “program” means the statewide immunization program;
(10) “provider” means a person licensed or certified by the state to administer vaccines or provide health care services or a partnership, corporation, or other entity made up of persons licensed or certified to administer vaccines or provide health care services;
(11) “vaccine” means a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, living fully virulent organisms, or other substances that are administered to humans for the purpose of producing or artificially increasing specific immunity to life-threatening and disabling diseases.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts › Sec. 18.10.010. Local health unit and health board.

Each community or settlement outside an incorporated city is a health unit. In each health unit there shall be a board of health composed of the president of the school board and two citizens of the unit selected by the school board. At least one of the members of the health board must, where practicable, be a licensed physician. In a health unit where there is no school board, the commissioner shall appoint three residents of the unit to the local board of health, at least one member of which must, where practicable, be a licensed physician.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts › Sec. 18.10.030. Health units in Native villages and communities.

In a Native village, or community composed largely of Natives, where the formation of a board of health is impracticable, the commissioner may delegate to a representative of the Alaska Native Service the authority granted to the local boards of health.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 10. Health Units and Districts › Sec. 18.10.040. Health districts.

Two or more contiguous health units of two or more local boards of health for contiguous incorporated cities may be constituted a health district by the department. Members of the board of health for this type of health district shall be appointed by the department from residents of each health unit or incorporated city represented in the health district in the numbers and for the periods of time determined by the department.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy › Sec. 18.13.010. Genetic testing.

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section,
(1) a person may not collect a DNA sample from a person, perform a DNA analysis on a sample, retain a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or disclose the results of a DNA analysis unless the person has first obtained the informed and written consent of the person, or the person's legal guardian or authorized representative, for the collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure;
(2) a DNA sample and the results of a DNA analysis performed on the sample are the exclusive property of the person sampled or analyzed.
(b) The prohibitions of (a) of this section do not apply to DNA samples collected and analyses conducted
(1) under AS 44.41.035 or comparable provisions of another jurisdiction;
(2) for a law enforcement purpose, including the identification of perpetrators and the investigation of crimes and the identification of missing or unidentified persons or deceased individuals;
(3) for determining paternity;
(4) to screen newborns as required by state or federal law;
(5) for the purpose of emergency medical treatment.
(c) A general authorization for the release of medical records or medical information may not be construed as the informed and written consent required by this section. The Department of Health may by regulation adopt a uniform informed and written consent form to assist persons in meeting the requirements of this section. A person using that uniform informed and written consent is exempt from civil or criminal liability for actions taken under the consent form. A person may revoke or amend their informed and written consent at any time.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy › Sec. 18.13.020. Private right of action.

A person may bring a civil action against a person who collects a DNA sample from the person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA analysis in violation of this chapter. In addition to the actual damages suffered by the person, a person violating this chapter shall be liable to the person for damages in the amount of $5,000 or, if the violation resulted in profit or monetary gain to the violator, $100,000.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy › Sec. 18.13.030. Criminal penalty.

(a) A person commits the crime of unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure if the person knowingly collects a DNA sample from a person, performs a DNA analysis on a sample, retains a DNA sample or the results of a DNA analysis, or discloses the results of a DNA analysis in violation of this chapter.
(b) In this section, “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900.
(c) Unlawful DNA collection, analysis, retention, or disclosure is a class A misdemeanor.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy › Sec. 18.13.100. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “DNA” means deoxyribonucleic acid, including mitochondrial DNA, complementary DNA, and DNA derived from ribonucleic acid;
(2) “DNA analysis” means DNA or genetic typing and testing to determine the presence or absence of genetic characteristics in an individual, including tests of nucleic acids or chromosomes in order to diagnose or identify a genetic characteristic; “DNA analysis” does not include a routine physical measurement, a test for drugs, alcohol, cholesterol, or the human immunodeficiency virus, a chemical, blood, or urine analysis, or any other diagnostic test that is widely accepted and in use in clinical practice;
(3) “genetic characteristic” includes a gene, chromosome, or alteration of a gene or chromosome that may be tested to determine the existence or risk of a disease, disorder, trait, propensity, or syndrome, or to identify an individual or a blood relative; “genetic characteristic” does not include family history or a genetically transmitted characteristic whose existence or identity is determined other than through a genetic test.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 1. Prenatal Blood Tests. › Sec. 18.15.150. Taking of blood sample.

Each licensed physician and in the absence of a licensed physician each licensed graduate nurse who attends a pregnant woman for conditions relating to the pregnancy during the period of gestation or at delivery shall take, or have taken, a sample of the blood of the woman at the time of the woman's first professional visit or within 10 days after the visit, unless the serological test is contrary to the tenets or practice of the religious creed of which the woman is an adherent. The blood specimen shall be submitted to an approved laboratory or clinic for a standard serological test of syphilis. Any other person permitted by law to attend pregnant women but not permitted by law to take blood samples shall have a sample of blood taken by a licensed physician, or on order of a licensed physician, and shall submit the sample to an approved laboratory or clinic for a standard serological test for syphilis.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 1. Prenatal Blood Tests. › Sec. 18.15.160. Test for syphilis.

For the purposes of AS 18.15.150 - 18.15.180 a standard serological test is a test for syphilis approved by the department and shall be performed in a laboratory or clinic approved by the department. On request the laboratory test required by AS 18.15.150 - 18.15.180 shall be performed without charge at the laboratories of the department.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 1. Prenatal Blood Tests. › Sec. 18.15.170. Report of birth.

In reporting a birth and stillbirth, the physician and other person required to make the report shall state on the certificate whether a serological test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child and the approximate date when the specimen was taken. A birth certificate may not state the result of the test.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 1. Prenatal Blood Tests. › Sec. 18.15.180. Penalty.

A licensed physician or licensed nurse attending a pregnant woman during the period of gestation or at delivery, or a representative of a laboratory or clinic who violates AS 18.15.150 - 18.15.180 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is punishable by a fine of not more than $500. However, a person attending a pregnant woman during the period of gestation or at delivery, who requests the specimen in accordance with AS 18.15.150, and whose request is refused, is not guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 2. Phenylketonuria (PKU) and Other Heritable Diseases. › Sec. 18.15.200. Screening for phenylketonuria.

(a) A physician who attends a newborn child shall cause this child to be tested for phenylketonuria (PKU). If the mother is delivered in the absence of a physician, the nurse who first visits the child shall cause this test to be performed.
(b) The department shall adopt regulations regarding the method used and the time or times of testing as accepted medical practice indicates.
(c) The necessary laboratory tests and the test materials, reporting forms, and mailing cartons shall be provided by the department.
(d) All tests considered positive by the screening method shall be reported by the screening laboratory to the physician and to the department. The department shall provide services for the performance of a quantitative blood phenylalanine test or its equivalent for diagnostic purposes. A confirmed diagnosis of phenylketonuria shall be reported to the physician and to the department. The department shall provide services for treatment and clinical follow-up of any diagnosed case.
(e) When presumptive positive screening tests have been reported to the department, it shall provide, on request, either the true blood phenylalanine test or subsidize the performance of this test at an approved laboratory.
(f) A licensed physician or licensed nurse attending a newborn or infant who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, is punishable by a fine of not more than $500. However, a person attending a newborn or infant whose request for appropriate specimens from the newborn or infant is denied by the parent or guardian is not guilty of a misdemeanor. The fact that a child has not been subjected to the test because a request for appropriate specimens has been denied by the parents or guardian shall be reported to the department.
(g) In this section, “physician” means a doctor of medicine licensed to practice medicine in this state, or an officer in the regular medical service of the armed forces of the United States or the United States Public Health Service assigned to duty in this state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 2. Phenylketonuria (PKU) and Other Heritable Diseases. › Sec. 18.15.205. Screening for congenital heart disease.

(a) A provider of birthing services who attends a birth in the state shall ensure that, as close to 24 hours after the birth as feasible, screening for congenital heart defects through pulse oximetry equipment and methods appropriate for use on a newborn is performed on the newborn, unless screening is refused under (d) of this section.
(b) A provider of birthing services who attends a birth in the state shall, as soon as possible after screening conducted under (a) of this section, make a referral for confirmatory testing on a newborn whose pulse oximetry results are abnormal and provide advice to the parent or legal guardian regarding the need for appropriate interventions.
(c) The provider who performs pulse oximetry screening under (a) of this section shall report to the parents and attending physicians of the newborn and to the department the results of screening.
(d) Before performing screening for congenital heart disease under (a) of this section, a provider of birthing services shall provide to a parent or legal guardian of a newborn information on the screening and the option to refuse the screening.
(e) The department shall establish procedures for submitting reports of newborn screening results to the department and for summarizing reported data.
(f) In this section, “provider of birthing services” means a physician, midwife, nurse, or other qualified professional who attends the delivery of a newborn in the course of the provider's practice.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 2. Phenylketonuria (PKU) and Other Heritable Diseases. › Sec. 18.15.210. Testing for certain other heritable diseases.

The department shall administer and provide services for testing for other heritable diseases that lead to intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or both, and physical disabilities as screening programs accepted by current medical practice and as developed.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 3. Hepatitis B. › Sec. 18.15.250. Hepatitis B testing and vaccination program for volunteer emergency personnel.

(a) The department shall establish a program under which hepatitis B testing and vaccination is reasonably accessible at no charge to all volunteer emergency medical and rescue personnel in the state who provide an emergency medical or rescue service primarily within an unincorporated community or within a municipality that does not provide funding for the service.
(b) A municipality that has the power to do so shall establish a program under which hepatitis B testing and vaccination is reasonably accessible at no charge to all law enforcement officers and all volunteer or employed emergency medical and rescue personnel who provide service to the public within the municipality. The department shall, upon request, assist a municipality in establishing a program required under this subsection.
(c) The Department of Public Safety shall establish a program under which hepatitis B testing and vaccination is reasonably accessible at no charge to all officers of the state troopers. The Department of Health shall, upon request, assist the Department of Public Safety in establishing a program required under this subsection.
(d) In this section,
(1) “emergency medical and rescue personnel” means a trauma technician, emergency medical technician, rescuer, or mobile intensive care paramedic;
(2) “employed” means that the person is a paid employee of a first responder service, a rescue service, an ambulance service, or a fire department that provides emergency medical or rescue services as part of its duties;
(3) “law enforcement officer” means a member of the police force of a municipality;
(4) “volunteer” means that the person is an active volunteer of a first responder service, a rescue service, an ambulance service, or a fire department that provides emergency medical or rescue services as part of its duties.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 4. Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. › Sec. 18.15.270. Testing procedures.

(a) The department shall make available on a statewide basis the best current testing method available to detect gonorrhea and chlamydia.
(b) The department shall use the best current testing method available for diagnosis of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 5. Blood Tests of Persons Charged with Sex Offenses. › Sec. 18.15.320. Cost of performing test; reimbursement.

(a) The cost of performing a blood test under AS 18.15.300 shall be paid by the department.
(b) If a defendant for whom a blood test has been ordered under AS 18.15.300 is convicted of an offense for which the defendant was charged, and for which a blood test could be ordered under AS 18.15.300, the court shall order the defendant to reimburse the department for the cost of the test and may order the Department of Corrections to deduct the amount of the test from any pay the inmate receives under AS 33.30.201.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.355. Prevention and control of conditions of public health importance.

(a) The department may use the powers and provisions set out in AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395 to prevent, control, or ameliorate conditions of public health importance or accomplish other essential public health services and functions.
(b) In performing its duties under AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395, the department may
(1) establish standards
(A) for the prevention, control, or amelioration of conditions of public health importance;
(B) to accomplish other essential public health services and functions; and
(2) adopt regulations to implement and interpret AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.360. Data collection.

(a) The department is authorized to collect, analyze, and maintain databases of information related to
(1) risk factors identified for conditions of public health importance;
(2) morbidity and mortality rates for conditions of public health importance;
(3) community indicators relevant to conditions of public health importance;
(4) longitudinal data on traumatic or acquired brain injury from the registry established under AS 47.80.500(c)(1);
(5) health care services and price information collected under AS 18.23.400; and
(6) any other data needed to accomplish or further the mission or goals of public health or provide essential public health services and functions.
(b) The department is authorized to obtain information from federal, state, and local governmental agencies, Alaska Native organizations, health care providers, pre-hospital emergency medical services, or other private and public organizations operating in the state. The department may also use information available from other governmental and private sources, reports of hospital discharge data, information included in death certificates, other vital statistics, environmental data, and public information. The department may request information from and inspect health care records maintained by health care providers that identify individuals or characteristics of individuals with reportable diseases or other conditions of public health importance.
(c) The department may collect information to establish and maintain a comprehensive vaccination registry to aid, coordinate, and promote effective and cost-efficient disease prevention and control efforts in the state.
(d) The department may not acquire identifiable health information under this section without complying with the provisions of AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395 and regulations adopted under those statutes.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.362. Acquisition and use of identifiable health information; public health purpose.

The department may acquire and use identifiable health information collected under AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395 only if the
(1) acquisition and use of the information relates directly to a public health purpose;
(2) acquisition and use of the information is reasonably likely to contribute to the achievement of a public health purpose; and
(3) public health purpose cannot otherwise be achieved at least as well with nonidentifiable health information.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.365. Information security safeguards.

(a) The department shall acquire, use, disclose, and store identifiable health information collected under AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395 in a confidential manner that safeguards the security of the information, and maintain the information in a physically and technologically secure environment.
(b) The department shall expunge, in a confidential manner, identifiable health information collected under AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395 when the use of the information by the department no longer furthers the public health purpose for which it is required.
(c) A person who knowingly discloses identifiable health information in violation of this section or a regulation adopted under this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. In this subsection, “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900(a).
(d) A person who intentionally discloses identifiable health information in violation of this section or a regulation adopted under this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. In this subsection, “intentionally” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900(a).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.370. Reportable disease list.

The department shall maintain a list of reportable diseases or other conditions of public health importance that must be reported to the department. The list may include birth defects, cancers, injuries, and diseases or other conditions caused by exposure to microorganisms; pathogens; or environmental, toxic, or other hazardous substances. The department shall regularly maintain and may revise the list. The department may also establish registries for diseases and conditions that must be reported to the department.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.380. Medical treatment.

(a) A health care practitioner or public health agent who examines or treats an individual who has or may have been exposed to a contagious disease shall instruct the individual about the measures for preventing transmission of the disease and the need for treatment.
(b) The department may administer medication or other medical treatment, including the use of directly observed therapy where appropriate, to a consenting individual who has or may have been exposed to a contagious disease.
(c) An individual has the right to refuse treatment and may not be required to submit to involuntary treatment as long as the individual is willing to take steps outlined by the state medical officer to prevent the spread of a communicable disease to others. However, an individual who exercises the right to refuse treatment under this subsection may be responsible for paying all costs incurred by the state in seeking and implementing a quarantine or isolation order made necessary by a refusal of treatment by the individual. The department shall notify an individual who refuses treatment under this subsection that the refusal may result in an indefinite period of quarantine or isolation and that the individual may be responsible for payment of the costs of the quarantine or isolation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.392. Representation; guardian ad litem.

An individual who is the respondent in proceedings under AS 18.15.375(e) or 18.15.385 has the right to be represented by counsel in the proceedings. If the individual cannot afford an attorney, the court shall direct the Public Defender Agency to provide an attorney. The court may, on its own motion or upon request of the individual's attorney or a party, direct the office of public advocacy to provide a guardian ad litem for the individual.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 6. Public Health Authority and Powers. › Sec. 18.15.393. Report to legislature.

The department shall annually report to the legislature the activities conducted by the department under AS 18.15.355 - 18.15.395, including information pertaining to the number of individuals quarantined, the purpose for the quarantine, and the length of the quarantine.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 7. Blood Testing of Prisoners and Others for Bloodborne Pathogens. › Sec. 18.15.400. Bloodborne pathogen testing of prisoners, certain adult or juvenile offenders, and public safety officers; required disclosures and consent.

(a) When requested by a public safety officer who may have received a significant exposure from an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner, the employing agency shall follow the testing procedures of AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450 if
(1) a physician licensed under AS 08 determines that a significant exposure to the public safety officer has occurred;
(2) the physician for the public safety officer needs the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's bloodborne pathogens test results to begin, continue, modify, or discontinue treatment in accordance with the most current guidelines of the United States Public Health Service, because of possible exposure to a bloodborne pathogen; and
(3) the public safety officer consents to providing a blood sample for testing for a bloodborne pathogen.
(b) Before employing the testing procedures of AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450 or disclosing any information about the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner or public safety officer, the employing agency shall inform the
(1) adult or juvenile offender or prisoner that
(A) the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's bloodborne pathogens test results, without the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's name or other uniquely identifying information, shall be reported to the public safety officer if requested and that test results collected are for medical purposes and may not be used as evidence in any criminal proceedings or civil proceedings;
(B) the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner may refuse to provide a blood sample and that the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's refusal may result in a request for a court order to require the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner to provide a blood sample; and
(C) the employing agency will advise the public safety officer of the confidentiality requirements and penalties before the officer's health care provider discloses any test results;
(2) public safety officer of the confidentiality requirements of AS 18.15.440 and that the public safety officer may be subject to penalties for unauthorized release of test results about the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner.
(c) If the disclosures have been made, the employing agency shall ask the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner if the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner has ever had a positive test for a bloodborne pathogen. The employing agency shall disclose the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's existing bloodborne pathogens test results to the public safety officer without the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's name or other uniquely identifying information.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 7. Blood Testing of Prisoners and Others for Bloodborne Pathogens. › Sec. 18.15.410. Consent for testing; court order for testing; exception.

(a) When a public safety officer has made a request under AS 18.15.400, except as provided in (b) or (c) of this section or in AS 18.15.420, before collecting and testing the blood of an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner, the employing agency shall first obtain the consent of the adult offender or prisoner or the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's representative if the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner is unable to provide the consent.
(b) Consent of an adult or juvenile offender's or a prisoner's representative is not required if the employing agency has made reasonable efforts to locate the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's representative and the representative cannot be found within 24 hours after a significant exposure. If testing of available blood occurs without consent because the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner is unconscious or unable to provide consent, and a representative cannot be located, the employing agency shall provide the information required in AS 18.15.400 to the adult or juvenile offender, prisoner, or representative whenever it is possible to do so.
(c) If an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner dies before an opportunity to consent to blood collection or testing, consent is not required, and the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's blood may be collected and tested.
(d) If the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner or the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's representative, if appropriate, consents and a sample of the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's blood
(1) is available, the employing agency shall have the blood tested for bloodborne pathogens;
(2) is not available, the employing agency shall collect a sample and have the blood sample tested for bloodborne pathogens.
(e) The employing agency may not withhold care or treatment on the requirement that the adult or juvenile offender or prisoner consent to testing for bloodborne pathogens.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 7. Blood Testing of Prisoners and Others for Bloodborne Pathogens. › Sec. 18.15.440. Confidentiality; penalties for unauthorized disclosure; immunity.

(a) Bloodborne pathogens test results of an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner are confidential and may not be disclosed except as provided in AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450 and as needed for the treatment or medical care of an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner specific to a bloodborne pathogen-related illness.
(b) An adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner may bring a civil action against a person who knowingly, in violation of AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450, releases the adult or juvenile offender's or prisoner's name or other uniquely identifying information with the test results or otherwise releases the test results.
(c) The employing agency, a physician, and designated health care personnel are immune from liability in any civil, administrative, or criminal action relating to the disclosure of test results of an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner to a public safety officer and the testing of a blood sample from an adult or juvenile offender or a prisoner for bloodborne pathogens if a good faith effort has been made to comply with AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 7. Blood Testing of Prisoners and Others for Bloodborne Pathogens. › Sec. 18.15.445. Assistance by departments and municipalities.

The department, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Corrections, and each municipality shall assist public safety officers and employing agencies in complying with the requirements of AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 15. Disease Control and Threats to Public Health › Article 7. Blood Testing of Prisoners and Others for Bloodborne Pathogens. › Sec. 18.15.450. Definitions for AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450.

In AS 18.15.400 - 18.15.450,
(1) “adult or juvenile offender” means a person in custody, arrested, or charged under a criminal complaint or a minor being held or subject to a petition under AS 47.12;
(2) “bloodborne pathogens” means pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans; these pathogens include hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV);
(3) “employing agency” means the
(A) department that employs a state employee who is, or contracts with another person who is or employs, a public safety officer;
(B) municipality that employs a municipal employee who is, or contracts with another person who is or employs, a public safety officer or that contracts with, sponsors, or accepts the services of a public safety officer who volunteers for a volunteer fire department or emergency medical services agency;
(C) Department of Public Safety for a public safety officer who volunteers for a volunteer fire department or emergency medical services agency that provides services in the unorganized borough outside of a municipality;
(4) “prisoner” has the meaning given in AS 33.30.901;
(5) “public safety officer” means a state or municipal juvenile or adult correctional, probation, or parole officer, a contractor or employee of a contractor in a correctional facility, a juvenile detention or treatment facility staff member, or a peace officer or firefighter, emergency medical technician, or mobile intensive care paramedic employed by or volunteering for the state or a municipality or volunteer fire department or emergency medical services provider;
(6) “significant exposure” means contact likely to transmit a bloodborne pathogen, in a manner supported by the most current guidelines and recommendations of the United States Public Health Service at the time an evaluation takes place, that includes
(A) percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane or nonintact skin, or prolonged contact of intact skin; and
(B) contact, in a manner that may transmit a bloodborne pathogen, with blood, tissue, or potentially infectious body fluids.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions › Sec. 18.16.040. Reports.

For each month in which an abortion is performed on a minor by a physician, the physician shall file a report with the Department of Health indicating the number of abortions performed on a minor for that month, the age of each minor, the number of previous abortions performed on each minor, if any, and the number of pregnancies of each minor, if any, and the number of consents provided under each of the exceptions enumerated under AS 18.16.020(a)(1) - (4). A report filed under this section may not include identifying information of the minor other than the minor's age.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions › Sec. 18.16.050. Partial-birth abortions.

(a) Notwithstanding compliance with AS 18.16.010, a person may not knowingly perform a partial-birth abortion unless a partial-birth abortion is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury and no other medical procedure would suffice for that purpose. Violation of this subsection is a class C felony.
(b) A woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed may not be prosecuted under this section or under any other law if the prosecution is based on this section.
(c) In this section, “partial-birth abortion” means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 16. Regulation of Abortions › Sec. 18.16.090. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “abortion” means the use or prescription of an instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, except that “abortion” does not include the termination of a pregnancy if done with the intent to
(A) save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;
(B) deliver the unborn child prematurely to preserve the health of both the pregnant woman and the woman's child; or
(C) remove a dead unborn child;
(2) “unemancipated” means that a woman who is unmarried and under 17 years of age has not done any of the following:
(A) entered the armed services of the United States;
(B) become employed and self-subsisting;
(C) been emancipated under AS 09.55.590; or
(D) otherwise become independent from the care and control of the woman's parent, guardian, or custodian.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 1. Regulation of Hospitals. › Sec. 18.20.075. Risk management.

(a) To be eligible for a license, each hospital shall have in operation an internal risk management program that shall
(1) investigate the frequency and causes of incidents in hospitals that cause injury to patients;
(2) develop and implement measures to minimize the risk of injury to patients; in developing these measures each hospital shall take into account recommendations of its medical staff, private underwriters, industry standards, experience of other hospitals, and recommendations of licensing boards of other health care providers; and
(3) analyze patient grievances that relate to patient care.
(b) The department shall adopt by regulation standards for the risk management programs in hospitals in the state which may vary according to the size of the hospital, the type of care offered by the hospital, and other factors found relevant by the department. Regulations adopted under this subsection are subject to AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 1. Regulation of Hospitals. › Sec. 18.20.080. Inspection and consultation for alterations.

(a) The department shall make annual inspections and investigations of hospital facilities. The department may accept accreditation by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals in lieu of an annual inspection by the department for the year in which the accreditation was granted if the accreditation standards of the commission are substantially similar to the inspection standards of the department.
(b) The department may by regulation require that a licensee or applicant desiring to make a specified type of alteration or addition to its facilities or to construct new facilities shall, before commencing the alteration, addition, or new construction, submit plans and specifications to the department for preliminary inspection and approval or recommendations with respect to compliance with its regulations and standards.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 1. Regulation of Hospitals. › Sec. 18.20.085. Hospital records retention.

(a) Unless specified otherwise by the department a hospital shall retain and preserve records that relate directly to the care and treatment of a patient for a period of seven years following the discharge of the patient. However, the records of a patient under 19 years of age shall be kept until at least two years after the patient has reached the age of 19 years or until seven years following the discharge of the patient, whichever is longer. Records consisting of X-ray film are required to be retained for five years.
(b) The department shall by regulation define the types of records and the information required to be included in the records retained and preserved under (a) of this section. The department may by regulation specify records and information to be retained for longer periods than those set out in (a) of this section.
(c) If a hospital ceases operation, it shall make immediate arrangements, as approved by the department, for the preservation of its records.
(d) This section is subject to AS 18.23.100.
(e) In this section, “hospital” includes those facilities defined as hospitals under AS 18.20.130 and 18.20.210.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 1. Regulation of Hospitals. › Sec. 18.20.130. Definitions.

In AS 18.20.075 - 18.20.130,
(1) “department” means the Department of Health;
(2) “hospital” means an institution or establishment, public or private, devoted primarily to providing diagnosis, treatment, or care over a continuous period of 24 hours each day for two or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, physical or mental disease, injury or deformity, or any other condition for which medical or surgical services would be appropriate.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 2. Alaska Hospital and Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act. › Sec. 18.20.140. Purpose.

The purpose of AS 18.20.140 - 18.20.220 is to make an inventory of existing hospitals and medical facilities, community mental health centers, and facilities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; to survey the need for construction of hospitals and medical facilities, community mental health centers, and facilities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; and to develop a program and plan of construction for each.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 2. Alaska Hospital and Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act. › Sec. 18.20.141. Department functions.

The department shall be the sole agency for the administration of the plan as required by the federal act. The department shall develop and administer any programs necessary for compliance with the federal act.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities › Article 2. Alaska Hospital and Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act. › Sec. 18.20.150. Duties of department.

(a) For each of the following groups of facilities, hospitals and medical facilities (Group 1), community mental health centers (Group 2), and facilities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Group 3), the department shall
(1) make a statewide inventory of existing public, nonprofit, and proprietary facilities;
(2) survey the need for construction of these facilities;
(3) on the basis of the inventory and survey, develop a program for the construction of public and other nonprofit facilities for each of these groups that will, in conjunction with existing facilities, afford the necessary physical facilities for furnishing adequate facility services to all residents of the state.
(b) [Repealed, § 19 ch 6 SLA 1998.]
(c) The department shall
(1) provide for adequate facilities to furnish needed services for persons unable to pay for them in accordance with regulations adopted under the federal act;
(2) submit any reports that the surgeon general considers necessary for compliance with the federal act;
(3) do all things on behalf of the state necessary to obtain benefits under the federal act.