Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part XI - Hospitals › Subpart 1 - General Provisions › Chapter 1 - Authority › Section XI-101 - Establishment of State Operated General Hospitals

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Act 18 of 1948 amended Act 69 of 1930 to
				  authorize the establishment of the E.A. Conway Memorial Hospital in the City of
				  Monroe, Parish of Ouachita, to be maintained at the expense of the state for
				  the reception and medical and surgical treatment of the indigent and destitute
				  sick and wounded persons.
B. Act
				  No. 137 of 1874 authorized the establishment of the Charity Hospital of the
				  City of Baton Rouge, later named Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital, and provided
				  that all destitute sick persons should be admitted and receive such aid and
				  medical attention as their condition may require.
C. Act 160 of 1938 provided that a charity
				  hospital under construction at Pineville, Louisiana by the State Hospital Board
				  be known and designated as the Huey P. Long Hospital.
D. Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital was opened in
				  1938 under the authority of the State Hospital Board to provide general medical
				  care to the indigent in the Florida Parishes of Southeast Louisiana.
E. Act 38 of 1973 authorized the
				  establishment of South Louisiana Medical Center to be used for public health
				  work within the state for the reception and medical and surgical treatment of
				  indigent sick and wounded persons.
F. University Medical Center was opened as
				  the Lafayette Charity Hospital in 1937 under the authority of the State
				  Hospital Board as a general hospital to serve the indigent
				  population.
G. Act 219 of 1956
				  authorized the creation and establishment of the Lake Charles Charity Hospital,
				  later renamed the Dr. Walter Olin Moss Regional Hospital, to be used for public
				  health work within the state for the reception and medical and surgical
				  treatment of indigent, sick, and wounded persons.
H. Act 210 of 1948 authorized the operation
				  of Washington-St. Tammany Charity Hospital as a hospital not to exceed 50 beds
				  and with adequate physical facilities for an outpatient service to care for the
				  requirements of the area served.
I.
				  Establishment of Charity Hospital at New Orleans Hospital. Act 155 of 1855
				  created Charity Hospital at New Orleans and provided a revenue for its support.
				  Any bona fide resident of the state of Louisiana shall be eligible to be
				  admitted for any form of treatment by any general hospital owned and operated
				  by the state of Louisiana. Those persons who are determined not to be medically
				  indigent or medically needy shall be admitted only on a space available basis
				  and shall be reasonably charged for any treatment or services received.
				  However, in no event shall emergency treatment be denied to anyone; and in no
				  event shall any person housed in any parish jail facility or state prison in
				  the state of Louisiana, irrespective of his state of residency, be denied any
				  form of medical treatment in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by
				  the state of Louisiana.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 36:259 and R.S. 36:851,
					 46:6.