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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62k - Trustees; Corporation; Additional Powers and Duties; Grants; Devises; Gifts; Trusts

Section 62K. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land, bequest of personal property or money or other funds, whether income or principal and whether acquired by gift or contribution or otherwise made, or generated by the trustees for the use or benefit of the school, its students, former students or graduates or any association thereof. Consistent with this purpose, the trustees shall have all the powers permitted a nonprofit corporation under Massachusetts law and an exempt organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, including among others, the power to employ such agencies as they may from time to time determine to be wise and proper for the administration of the funds, and from funds received or the income thereof, to pay such expenses as may be necessary for the administration of these funds, or may, with notification to the governor or council, delegate any powers conferred by this section upon any such company or corporation. In the use, management and administration of such funds, the trustees or their agents shall in their discretion act as most effectively to benefit the school, its students or graduates or any association thereof. No trustee shall be answerable for the default or neglect of any co-trustee, or of any agent employed hereunder, or of any corporation to which power is delegated or transferred as herein authorized.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62m - Admissions; Applications; Discharges; Tuition

Section 62M. The trustees may, upon application of any child entitled to receive the benefit of said school, or upon such application by a parent, guardian or person having the legal custody of the child, or by any state or municipal department, board or officer having such custody, admit such child to said school, subject to such rules and regulations as the trustees may prescribe, and the trustees may discharge such child from the school; provided, that no such rule or regulation shall prohibit the admission of a child for the reason that he commutes to said school or that he is able to pay the charges for his support at said school. The charges for the support of the children who are of sufficient ability to pay for the same, or have persons or kindred bound by law to maintain them, shall be paid by such children, such persons or such kindred at a rate determined by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive office. The board of such children as reside in a town shall be paid by the town at a rate not exceeding seventeen dollars and fifty cents a week, notice of the reception of the children by the trustees being given by them to the town as soon as practicable; and the tuition and board of those having no such settlement shall be paid by the commonwealth. The trustees may receive other children having no means to pay for tuition and support, and the tuition and board of all such children shall be paid by the commonwealth. The attorney general and district attorneys shall upon request bring action to recover said charges in the name of the state treasurer. The admission of a child as aforesaid to the school shall be deemed a commitment of the child to the care and custody of the commonwealth, and the trustees, with the approval of the department, may detain the child at said school during its school age, or for such longer period during its minority as in the opinion of the trustees will tend to promote the education and welfare of the child.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62n - Inspection of Schools; Report; Audit

Section 62N. There shall be a thorough inspection of the school by two of the trustees thereof monthly, and by a majority of them quarterly, and by all of them semi-annually, and after each inspection a written report of the state of the institution shall be drawn up. The treasurer shall present his report at said annual meeting and the trustees shall then audit it. The commissioner shall make an annual report of the acts of the trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62p - Construction and Maintenance of Hospital for State Minor Wards

Section 62P. The trustees of the Massachusetts hospital school, subject to supervision by the department, may construct from time to time, as appropriations are made by the general court, and thereafter may maintain, suitable buildings for the hospital care and treatment of such state minor wards as may be assigned to their care by the said department.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62q - Powers and Duties of Trustees; Management; Admissions; Approval

Section 62Q. The said trustees shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties in the management and control of the said hospital for state wards as are vested in and required of them in their administration and control of the hospital school under sections sixty-two J to sixty-two O, inclusive, so far as applicable. No state wards shall be admitted to or received at the said hospital without the approval of the trustees and the written order of an authorized agent of the department, nor released from said hospital without notice to the said department.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 62r - Use of Land, Buildings and Farm Products by Hospital School and Hospital for State Minor Wards

Section 62R. Any land acquired or buildings erected for the Massachusetts hospital school or the hospital for state minor wards, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, and also any farm product raised at the said hospital school, or at the said hospital, may, as the trustees shall from time to time determine, be used either interchangeably or exclusively for said hospital school or said hospital, or in common for the benefit of both institutions, and for the care and maintenance of their respective inmates, officers, employees and attendants. Such officers, employees and attendants shall, as required by the trustees, render service to either or both of the said institutions. Any sewer, heating, ventilating, water or similar plant or system may so be used, separately or jointly.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 63 - Supervision and Control by Commissioner

Section 63. The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital and shall see that the affairs of such hospitals are conducted according to law, and to the by-laws and regulations established by the council in respect thereto.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 63a - Admissions to Hospital

Section 63A. Subject to such rules and regulations as the department may provide, the superintendent of any hospital administered by the department shall be authorized to admit to any such hospital any person, including any person who is mentally ill, or suffering from an intellectual disability or suffering from any other mental disability, providing the admitting hospital is suitable for the care and treatment of such person.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 63b - Medicare Program Billings; Commissioner's Report

Section 63B. The department of public health shall bill the Medicare program established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for all patients cared for in hospitals operated by the department who have received or are eligible to receive a Medicare health insurance number. The department shall bill the Medicare program for all services provided to such patients since January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, the effective date of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–360), as amended. The department shall make the billings required by this section within the time for billing services which are applicable to the Medicare program for the billing of patient care services which are applicable to the Medicare program.
By February first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, the commissioner of public health shall issue a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means which shall provide the following information with respect to each hospital operated by the department: (a) the number and percentage of patients billed to the Medicaid program since January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; (b) the number and percentage of patients who by reason of age or disability are entitled to Medicare claim identification numbers; (c) whether any of the individuals identified in subsection (b) are not entitled to Medicare benefits and the reasons therefor; (d) whether any practice of the department of public welfare or department of public health has resulted in patients admitted to public health hospitals with or entitled to Medicare identification numbers not being entitled to benefits under the Medicare program; and (e) the cost savings and revenue which will be generated from the billings required by this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64 - Annual Inventory; Report; Audit

Section 64. The commissioner shall annually cause to be made an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand and the amount and value thereof at the end of the fiscal year at each hospital under the department; shall make a full and detailed annual report of the condition of each such hospital, and all its affairs, with a copy of the inventory required herein; shall receive and audit the annual report of the treasurer of each hospital, and shall deposit the same, with said annual report, with the state secretary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64b - Chronic Care Hospital; Services Provided; Research on Aging

Section 64B. The Cushing Hospital shall be maintained in the town of Framingham as a chronic care hospital, primarily to provide a comprehensive program of health care services to aging citizens. Subject to the provisions of section twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, such health care services are authorized to include long term chronic care; acute inpatient and outpatient care, including but not limited to medical, surgical, restorative, and rehabilitative services; dental services; skilled nursing care and intermediate care facility services; hospice services; congregate housing services; and home health services.
The Cushing Hospital may also engage in research into the causes and prevention of premature aging and the prevention and cure of diseases associated with aging individuals. Said hospital may develop educational programs for providers of health care and other services to the elderly, and for the general public, to improve the quality of such care and services received by the elderly. Said hospital may serve as a teaching facility for the education of highly skilled professionals in relevant areas of medicine and surgery.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64c - Board of Trustees

Section 64C. There shall be a board of trustees of the Cushing Hospital which shall consist of twelve members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a term of six years and two members shall be appointed each January, to take office on the first Wednesday of the following February. Members of the board may be removed for cause and shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all expenses reasonably incurred in the performance of their duties. The board of trustees shall meet at least four times in each year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64d - Corporation; Investments

Section 64D. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property made for the use or benefit of the hospital or its patients. The trustees shall also receive all payments and third party reimbursements, including the entire payments, both state and federal, made pursuant to Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, for patient care as provided in section sixty-four E.
The trustees may invest any such gifts, payments or reimbursements in any investment as is legal for savings banks in the commonwealth. For said purposes, the trustees may employ such agents as it may from time to time determine to be wise and proper, including any trust company or other corporation authorized by law to administer trusts and may from funds received as aforesaid or the income thereof pay such expenses as may be necessary for the prudent administration of such gifts, payments or reimbursements.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64e - Administration of Hospital; General Trust Fund

Section 64E. The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the hospital, and may incur all expenses necessary for the maintenance thereof.
The trustees shall deposit all monies received in payment or reimbursement for patient services into a general trust fund for the hospital. All monies so deposited may be expended without further appropriation. Any monies in such fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in such fund and shall not revert to the General Fund.
The monies from the general trust fund shall be expended in accordance with the following purposes:
(a) to pay for the operating expenses of Cushing Hospital, including administrative and health care delivery services;
(b) for the capital improvement and development of the medical school, including, but not limited to, the repair and maintenance of the present buildings, construction of a new facility, and the acquisition of medical and academic equipment and materials;
(c) to provide compensation, including additional fringe benefits, for employees of the hospital as the board of trustees may authorize and direct; and
(d) for medical research into innovative procedures for the long term care of elderly persons.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64f - Projected Revenue and Disbursement Schedule of General Trust Fund

Section 64F. The trustees shall annually prepare a projected revenue and disbursement schedule of the general trust fund. Such schedule shall be filed with the commissioner, the secretary of the executive office of human services, the commissioner of administration, and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64g - Establishment of Other Trust Funds; Assent to Federal Laws; Contracts and Agreements

Section 64G. The trustees may from time to time establish other trust funds. In the use, management, and administration of gifts or other monies held in trust, the trustees or their agents shall in their discretion so act as most effectively to aid the beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of such gift or trust. Any unrestricted balances remaining in a trust fund upon its termination shall be transferred to the general trust fund and used for the purposes authorized for the general trust fund.
The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit the hospital and to enter into contracts or agreements with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into contracts or agreements with agencies of other governments, colleges or university foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such contracts or agreements, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the hospital.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64h - Rules and Regulations

Section 64H. The trustees of the hospital may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the management, control and administration of inpatient fees, and for regulating or limiting the method and amounts which may be disbursed from the trust funds, particularly the general trust fund. The trustees shall publish such rules and regulations and shall file copies thereof with the commissioner, the secretary of the executive office of human services, the commissioner of administration and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64i - Staff Members Employees of Commonwealth

Section 64I. All members of the professional and non-professional staff of the hospital shall continue to be employees of the commonwealth, irrespective of the source of funds from which their salaries are paid. They shall have the same privileges and benefits of other employees of the commonwealth, such as retirement benefits, group insurance, industrial accident coverage, and other coverage enjoyed by all employees of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64j - Delegation of Authority by Trustees

Section 64J. The Trustees may, except as to the duties imposed on powers granted under section sixty-four H, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the superintendent of the hospital or any other officer of the hospital whenever in their judgment such delegation may be necessary or desirable.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64l - Superintendent; Subordinate Officers and Employees

Section 64L. The board of trustees of the hospital, with the approval of the commissioner, shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital. The person appointed as superintendent shall have a doctoral degree or a master's degree from an accredited college or university in the area of medicine, law, gerontology, psychology, rehabilitation, or hospital administration. The superintendent, with the approval of the trustees, may appoint and remove subordinate officers and employees as are necessary to carry out the purposes of the hospital. Such employees shall not be subject to section forty-five, forty-six, and forty-six C of chapter thirty or to any other limits on the number and classification of permanent and temporary positions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 64m - Care Center

Section 64M. There shall be a center on the care of the aging, research, and education, hereinafter referred to as the care center. The care center shall provide research into long term care of the aging, develop innovative models of delivery of such care, and provide technical assistance and training to other providers of long term care to the elderly.
The care center shall consist of an affiliation agreement between Cushing Hospital, the University of Massachusetts medical school, the University of Massachusetts programs on gerontology at Boston and Worcester, and any other appropriate organizations which may, from time to time, become a party to such agreement.
The care center shall be administered by a board of directors, which shall consist of five members, one of whom shall be the superintendent of Cushing Hospital, who shall serve as chairman of the board, one of whom shall be the dean of the University of Massachusetts medical school, one of whom shall be an official of a gerontology program of the University of Massachusetts to be appointed by the board of trustees of said university, one of whom shall be the director of the medical assistance program of the department of public welfare, and one of whom shall be the secretary of the executive office of elder affairs or his designee.
The care center shall be authorized, subject to the affiliation agreement, to expend money and appoint employees to carry out activities within its purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 65a - Admission to Lakeville Hospital

Section 65A. The department may admit to the Lakeville hospital persons suffering from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, persons crippled by poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), arthritis or muscular dystrophy and other similar diseases, aging persons, crippled children as defined in the regulations of the department, and persons with chronic diseases; provided, that preference shall be given to citizens of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 65c - Patients' Funds; Deposit

Section 65C. The superintendent of any institution under the supervision and control of the department may deposit in any bank or trust company within the commonwealth or on paid-up shares and accounts of and in co-operative banks, funds belonging to individual patients and funds deposited by their relatives or friends to be used for their benefit, or may use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, in an account entitled ''Patients' Funds'', or the superintendent may, whenever he deems it desirable, deposit such funds in such banks in separate accounts as trustee or use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, as trustee, in each instance, for the patient.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 65d - Patients' Funds; Disposition of Unclaimed Deposits

Section 65D. So much of any funds known as ''Patients' Funds'' as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of any such institution, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than seven years, shall be paid by the superintendent thereof to the state treasurer to be held subject to be paid to the person establishing a lawful right thereto, with interest at the rate of three per cent per annum from the time when it was so paid to the state treasurer to the time when it is paid by him to such person; provided, that so much of any monies so paid to the state treasurer as may be necessary to reimburse the institution for any sum due for the support of the person by whom or for whose benefit such money was originally deposited shall be credited to said trustees for that purpose. After six years from the date when any such monies were paid to the state treasurer the same or any balance thereof then remaining in his hands may be used as a part of the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person may, however, establish his claim after the expiration of the six years above mentioned, and any claim so established shall be paid from the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person claiming a right to money deposited with the state treasurer under this section may establish the same by a petition to the probate court; provided, that in cases where claims amount to less than fifty dollars, the claims may be presented to the comptroller, who shall examine the same and allow and certify for payment such as may be proved to his satisfaction.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 67a - Notice of Birth of Infant Weighing 2500 Grams or Less or With High Risk Problem; Annual Reporting on Status of Premature and High Risk Infants

Section 67A. (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined by the department, each hospital or in the case of a birth outside of a hospital, the person responsible for delivery shall file a written notice of such birth on a form with the department. The department shall promulgate rules which shall define the high risk problems and shall provide such reporting forms and shall set forth the procedure to be followed when making such reports. Such notices and reports shall be for the use of the department and its programs and shall not constitute a public record.
(b) The department shall submit an annual report to the general court not later than October 1 on the status of premature and high risk infants. The report shall include: (i) a description of the progress in implementing section 67C; (ii) information about the incidence and cause of re-hospitalizations of infants born premature within their first 6 months of life; and (iii) recommendations for improvement of newborn health outcomes and ensuring continued health quality improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to improve monitoring of premature infants after discharge from the hospital and transition to a health care provider.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 67c - Programs and Payment of Expenses for Care of Premature and Other High Risk Infants; Procedures for Hospital Discharge and Follow Up Care; Reporting on Causes and Incidence of Re-Hospitalizations

Section 67C. (a) The department of public health shall provide programs for the prevention, care, and follow-up of premature and other designated high risk infants and establish criteria for services to be provided. The expenses for the transportation of said infants to hospitals equipped to care for them and the expenses of initial hospitalization shall be paid by the department where such costs are not reimbursed by a third party payer. Said payments shall be made in accordance with rates established by the executive office of health and human services. Said payments shall be made only at the request of the parents or guardians of said infants to the department. The department shall apply financial eligibility guidelines to said programs and expenses.
(b) The department shall, in consultation with the department's multidisciplinary perinatal advisory committee, develop standardized procedures for hospital discharge and follow-up care for premature infants and shall ensure that standardized and coordinated processes are followed as premature infants leave the hospital from a well baby nursery, step down or transitional nursery or neonatal intensive care unit and transition to follow-up care by a health care or homecare provider.
(c) The department and its advisory committee shall utilize national evidence-based guidance, including, but not limited to, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Neonatal Outcomes Improvement Project or the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's national initiative for children's healthcare quality to establish hospital discharge follow-up care processes.
(d) The department shall utilize existing perinatal databases, such as the pregnancy to early life longitudinal database to develop a statewide report on the causes and incidence of re-hospitalizations of infants that were born premature and who are within their first 6 months of life. The department's perinatal advisory committee shall use such report in developing their standardized procedures.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 67e - Children Born With Congenital Anomaly, Birth Defect, Birth Injury or an Intellectual Disability; Reports

Section 67E. (a) Within 30 days after the diagnosis in the commonwealth of a congenital anomaly, birth defect or birth injury which may lead to an incapacity or disability, the physician making the diagnosis shall report the anomaly, defect or injury to the department on a form to be furnished by the department. The commissioner shall require the submission of such information on reported cases up to the age of 3 years as he considers necessary and appropriate for the prevention and early detection of such anomalies, defects and injuries. Authorized officials or agents of the department may abstract and record information that is required for reporting from the medical records of children under the age of 3 years and their parents. Before abstracting or recording any additional information from an individual's medical records, department officials shall obtain the approval of a duly constituted institutional review board that reviews and approves, and thereafter annually re-approves, a research protocol submitted to it by the department. The research protocol shall specify how such records shall be reviewed, how information from them shall be abstracted and reported, the exact information to be recorded, and how the information will be used, maintained and kept confidential. The department shall collect no more information than it considers necessary and appropriate in order to conduct epidemiological surveys and to develop appropriate preventative treatment and control measures.
(b) The contents of such reports, records and information shall be solely for the use of the department and such reports, records and information shall not be open to public inspection or constitute a public record. The commissioner may make such reports, records or information contained therein available to a researcher performing medical and scientific studies for the purpose of the reduction of morbidity and mortality in the commonwealth, so long as the commissioner and a duly constituted institutional review board first approves that study.
(c) Nothing in this section shall compel any individual to submit to medical or department examination, testing or supervision.
(d) The department shall make rules and regulations to implement this section.
(e) Within 30 days after the date of birth of any child with an intellectual disability, or within 30 days after any child has been diagnosed as having an intellectual disability, the physician making the diagnosis shall report, with the approval of the parents, the mental retardation to the department of developmental services for the purpose of having the department inform such parents of existing information and support services. The contents of this report shall be solely for the use as described in this subsection and shall not be open to public inspection or constitute a public record.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 67g - Audiometric Testing of Children; Costs

Section 67G. Every person in control of a child who has reached age four shall cause such child to be given a complete pure tone test using conventional audiometric tests at such public schools and by such pediatric audiologists or school testers as are approved and designated by the commissioner. The costs for such examinations shall be borne by the commonwealth. In the event such a child fails such pure tone tests, the tester or pediatric audiologist shall advise the parent or legal guardian to consult the otologist of his choice who is in private practice. If upon examination such otologist recommends further tests, the diagnostic services of the approved hospital centers referred to in section sixty-seven F shall be made available to such children at a cost to be borne by the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 67h - Literature on Hearing Impairments

Section 67H. The literature required by section sixty-seven F shall describe the following high risk conditions:—(1) Before birth (a) Family history of deafness as indicated by one or more deaf or hard of hearing children in family; (b) Maternal thyroid abnormality; (c) Maternal German measles in the first three months of pregnancy; (d) Maternal influenza or chicken pox in first three months of pregnancy, and (2) Newborn difficulty (a) Mycin drugs administered to infant; (b) Multiple abnormalities of infant, from whatever cause.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 69e - Inpatient and Outpatient Services; Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment Center; Admissions Policy

Section 69E. The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Lemuel Shattuck hospital, the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, the Pondville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital. Subject to appropriation and subject to the provisions of sections twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, the department shall be authorized to establish at these hospitals any inpatient or outpatient health services, including but not limited to medical, surgical, restorative, rehabilitative or chronic services, mental health and mental retardation services, extended care services, dental services, rehabilitative therapy services, family planning services, services for treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction, skilled nursing care services, intermediate care facility services, and residency care services. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall establish a diagnostic evaluation and treatment center for emphysema which is to include professional education and training at the Lemuel Shattuck hospital.
The department may admit patients to any of the services provided at the above hospitals subject to such rules and regulations as the department may prescribe; provided, however, that preference shall be given to residents of the commonwealth. Any such patient shall be discharged from said hospital either upon his own request or upon determination of the department but not otherwise.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 69g - Effect of Notice of Admission of Needy Person

Section 69G. In the case of a needy person not already in receipt of public assistance, the notice of admission shall constitute an application on behalf of the patient. Upon receipt of such application, the department of transitional assistance shall determine his eligibility for assistance, and if he is found eligible, he shall be granted the type of assistance for which he qualifies, from the date of the notice or application.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 69i - Liability for Charges for Support; Assessment; Proceedings; Written Statements

Section 69I. A person, his executor, or administrator, shall be liable in contract for such charges except that persons in receipt of public assistance shall have their responsibility for payment of such charges fixed in accordance with the provisions of the particular category of assistance under which they are aided. Persons or kindred bound by law to support such needy persons, not eligible for public assistance, shall be assessed in accordance with a schedule approved by the department. In all proceedings under this section, the sworn written statement of a person that he is the superintendent of the hospital or that he keeps or has custody of records relating to inmates thereof, and that a person has been a duly admitted patient therein during a stated period at a stated charge, and that said charge has not been paid in whole or in part, and the sworn written statement of an official of the hospital or department that notice of admission of the said patient was given on a stated date to the department of transitional assistance, that the charges for support of said patient were determined pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-nine H, and that no satisfactory security was given for his support, shall be prima facie evidence of the said facts.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 69k - Patients Eligible for Federal Veterans' Benefits

Section 69K. The commissioner shall identify patients at institutions subject to the control of the department who are eligible for federal veterans' benefits and shall take such steps necessary to assist said patients in collecting said benefits. Said commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to identify such patients at such institutions who are eligible for federal veterans' benefits and to collect said benefits. Said commissioner shall report to the clerks of the house and senate on or before January first of each year, the number of patients which have been identified as eligible for veterans' benefits, the amount of said benefits which have been collected by the commonwealth under the provisions of this section, and the cost to the commonwealth of collecting said benefits.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 69l - Vehicles; Moving and Parking Rules; Violations

Section 69L. The commissioner shall establish rules for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the lands within the charge of the department or the various institutions under its jurisdiction, and shall provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules. The commissioner may authorize the towing of vehicles parked in violation of said rules, and the owner of a vehicle which is towed shall be liable, in addition to the penalty for such violation, for the charge for removal and storage of the vehicle. Citations for violation of any rule established pursuant to this section may be issued by special state police officers appointed pursuant to section sixty of chapter twenty-two C, local and county law enforcement personnel and the state police.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 70a - Hospital Lien; Creation; Priority; Application

Section 70A. Any person and any city or town maintaining a hospital licensed under the provisions of section fifty-one, any hospital located in the commonwealth and operated by the United States Veterans Administration, any hospital operated by the commonwealth which furnished medical or other services to any person injured in an accident not covered by chapter 152 shall, subject to the provisions of section seventy B, have a lien for the reasonable and necessary charges of such hospital, not exceeding, however, the amount which would be charged in a ward of such hospital, and any health maintenance organization which has furnished health services, and any hospital, medical, or dental service corporation which has provided benefits for covered services furnished to a person injured in such an accident shall, subject to the provisions of section seventy B, have a lien for such benefits, upon the net amount payable to such injured person, his heirs or legal representative out of the total amount of any recovery or sum had or collected or to be collected, whether by judgment or by settlement or compromise, from another person as damages on account of such injuries. The lien of any attorney shall have precedence over the lien created under this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any such charges incurred subsequent to any such judgment, settlement or compromise.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 70b - Notice of Lien

Section 70B. Such lien shall take effect if, prior to any such judgment, settlement or compromise, a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, the date of the accident, the name and location of the provider of hospital, medical or dental services, the name of the person alleged to be liable to the injured person for the injuries received and, if applicable, the name and address of the health maintenance organization, or the hospital, medical, or dental service corporation, shall be mailed by the hospital, health maintenance organization, medical or dental service corporation, certified mail, return receipt requested, to such injured person, to his attorney, to the person alleged to be liable to such injured person for the injuries sustained and to any insurance carrier which has insured such person against liability.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 70c - Settlement Disregarding Hospital Lien; Effect; Limitation of Action

Section 70C. Any person who pays over any money upon which there is a lien as provided in section seventy A of which he has received notice as provided in section seventy B to any such injured person, his attorney or his heirs or legal representatives shall be liable to the person or the city or town having such lien for the amount thereof, not exceeding, however, said net amount paid to such injured person, his heirs or legal representatives. Any action under this section shall be commenced within one year after the date of such payment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 70d - Itemized Statement of Charges; Effect of Failure to Furnish

Section 70D. Upon receipt of a written request mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, from any person notified of such lien in accordance with the provisions of section seventy B, such hospital shall within ten days after receipt of such request furnish such person with a certified itemized statement of all charges of such hospital in reference to such injured person as provided in section seventy A, or if such injured person has not been discharged from said hospital at the time such request is received, then such statement shall be so furnished within ten days after such person has been discharged from said hospital.
If such hospital fails to comply with the provisions of this section, such lien shall be dissolved and no person shall be held liable under the provisions of section seventy C for the amount thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 70f - HIV Test; Informed Consent; Disclosure of Results or Identity of Subject of Test

Section 70F. A facility, as defined in section 70E, physician or health care provider shall not (1) test any person for the presence of the HIV antibody or antigen without first obtaining that person's verbal informed consent; (2) disclose the results of such test to any person other than the subject of the test without first obtaining the subject's written informed consent; or (3) identify the subject of such tests to any person without first obtaining the subject's written informed consent. A written consent form shall state the purpose for which the information is being requested and shall be distinguished from written consent for the release of any other medical information.
No employer shall require HIV antibody or antigen tests as a condition for employment.
Whoever violates this section shall be considered to have violated section 2 of chapter 93A.
For the purpose of this section ''written informed consent'' shall mean a written consent form for each requested release of the results of an individual's HIV antibody or antigen test or for the release of medical records containing such information.
It shall not be a violation of this section for any physician, health care provider, health care institution or laboratory to report information to the department of public health under chapter 111 or chapter 111D and regulations promulgated thereunder. No physician, health care provider, health care institution or laboratory required to report shall be liable in any civil or criminal action by reason of any such report.
This section shall not apply to premortem and postmortem serological testing for purposes of donation under chapter 113A.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 71a1/2 - Deposit of Inpatient or Resident Funds

Section 71A1/2. The administrator of any facility licensed pursuant to section seventy-one shall deposit in an interest-bearing account of any bank organized and existing under the laws of the commonwealth, funds of any person who is an inpatient or resident at such facility, if such administrator agrees to manage such funds at the request of such person or the fiduciary of such person or if the administrator is a fiduciary of such person. The words ''fiduciary'' and ''fund'' shall have the same meaning found in section one of chapter one hundred and twenty-three. The interest earned on any interest-bearing account shall be distributed or credited in one of the following ways, at the election of the facility: (a) pro-rated to each patient on an actual interest earned basis for individual accounts or (b) pro-rated to each patient on the basis of his end of quarter or nearest end of month balance for collective accounts. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVI - Public Health › Chapter 111 - Public Health › Section 71a3/4 - Inspection of State-Operated Veterans' Homes; Notice and Correction of Violations; Licensure

Section 71A3/4. The department shall conduct inspections of each state-operated veterans' home not less than twice per year or more frequently as the department deems necessary; provided, however, that during emergency operations, as declared by the secretary of veterans' services or the governor, the department shall conduct inspections of all state-operated veterans' homes not less than once every 30 days. After such inspection, the department shall give the superintendent of the home, the executive director of veterans' homes and housing appointed pursuant to section 12 of chapter 115A, the secretary of veterans' services and the veteran advocate established in chapter 115B written notice of each violation of the standards for long-term care facilities, including applicable rules and regulations pursuant to 105 CMR 150 or successor regulations; provided, that the written notice shall specify a reasonable period of time not to exceed 30 days after receipt thereof to provide a plan to correct such violations. Inspection reports and corrective action taken to address violations shall be made available to the public.
Each state-operated veterans' home shall be licensed pursuant to section 71. The superintendent of each state-operated veterans' home shall apply for and maintain such licensure.