§26-8-1. Continuation; Management; Superintendent; Qualifications of Superintendent; Division of Fiscal, Administrative and Clinical Duties; Certain Persons Exempted From Qualification Requirements

(a) The hospitals heretofore established and known, respectively, as Welch emergency hospital and Fairmont emergency hospital shall be continued and shall be managed, directed and controlled as prescribed in article eleven, chapter twenty-six of this code: Provided, That the hospital established as Fairmont emergency hospital and later renamed the Marion health care hospital shall henceforth […]

§26-8-2. Patients; Expenses; Disposition of Receipts

The Department of Health and Human Resources shall admit to the hospitals, under its rules, persons requiring hospital care and shall treat free of charge persons accidentally injured in this state while engaged in their usual employment, but preference at all times shall be given to persons accidentally injured: Provided, That the executive director of […]

§26-8-3. Admission of Deformed, Crippled or Defective Children

The state commissioner of public institutions shall prescribe rules and regulations for the admission of deformed, crippled or otherwise defective children to said hospitals for surgical or orthopedic treatment and care. The rules and regulations shall provide for the treatment and care of such children at said hospitals free of charge, when it is shown […]