Alabama Administrative Code › Title 420 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH › Chapter 420-5-3 - CEREBRAL PALSY TREATMENT CENTERS › Section 420-5-3-.01 - General

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Legal
			 Authority. Under and by virtue of authority vested in it by the Legislature of
			 Alabama,
Code of Ala. 1975
, §
								22-21-20,
et
seq
., the State Board of
			 Health does hereby adopt and promulgate the following rules governing all
			 hospitals, sanatoria, and other related institutions except hospitals operated
			 by the federal government and mental hospitals under the supervision of the
			 Board of Trustees of the Alabama State Hospitals.
(2) Definitions.
(a) AAC Rule means Alabama Administrative
			 Code Rule.
(b) Advisory Board means
			 the Advisory Board set up by law to assist in the establishment of rules
			 necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and to serve as consultants
			 to the State Board of Health.
(c)
			 Board or State Board of Health means the Alabama State Board of
			 Health.
(d) Cerebral Palsy
			 Treatment Centers means a building or place maintained for the care of patients
			 suffering from that group of neuromuscular disorders in which there is
			 impairment or loss of muscular control due to an abnormality of the brain.
			 Included are institutions that provide dormitory facilities and which offer
			 custodial care or an educational program, but this does not include day schools
			 or clinics where the patients attend during the day and return to their homes
			 at night.
(e) Convalescent, Rest or
			 Nursing Home means a building or place maintained for the care of patients who
			 are not acutely ill or do not require special facilities such as surgical or
			 maternity care. These homes also include private homes boarding aged and infirm
			 persons, provided the home is giving chronic or convalescent care, for a period
			 of twenty-four hours or longer, to two or more unrelated persons at any one
			 time.
(f) Duly Licensed when
			 applied to a person means that the person to whom the term is applied has been
			 duly and regularly licensed by the proper authority to follow his or her
			 profession within the State of Alabama, and when applied to an institution,
			 means that the institution has been duly and regularly licensed by the Alabama
			 State Board of Health.
(g)
			 Hospitals means hospitals, sanatoria, and other related institutions, when such
			 institution is primarily engaged in offering to the public generally,
			 facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, disease or
			 obstetrical care and when such institution offers such care for not less than
			 twenty-four hours in any week to two or more nonrelated individuals.
(h) Maternity Home means a building or other
			 place maintained and conducted for the care and treatment of women during
			 pregnancy, delivery and subsequent to the birth of children.
(i) Registered Nurse means a person graduated
			 from an accredited school of nursing and currently registered in the State of
			 Alabama in accordance with
Code of Ala. 1975
, §
									34-21-2.
(j) These Rules means Rules
			 420-5-3-.01 through
			 420-5-3-.04, Chapter 420-5-3,
			 Cerebral Palsy Treatment Centers,
Alabama Administrative
			 Code
.
L. O'Neal Green