7 AAC 12.105 - Services required

(a) A general acute care hospital must provide surgical, anesthesia, perinatal, medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, dietetic, laundry, medical records, radiological, laboratory, and emergency care services. A general acute care hospital must also provide speech, occupational, or physical therapy services.

(b) A rural primary care hospital or a critical access hospital must provide the services described in (a) of this section, except that the provision of surgical, anesthesia, perinatal, speech, occupational therapy, or physical therapy services is optional.

(c) A long-term acute care hospital must provide medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, dietetic, occupational therapy, physical therapy, laundry, medical records, radiological, social work, respiratory, and laboratory services.

Notes

7 AAC 12.105

Eff. 11/19/83, Register 88; am 5/4/97, Register 142; am 9/1/2000, Register 155; am 6/23/2006, Register 178

Authority:AS 47.32.010

AS 47.32.030