Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally

§ 20-9-104. Nonparticipation in maintenance of licensure or maintenance of certification — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Maintenance of certification”...

Subchapter 2 - Health Facilities Services

§ 20-9-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Administrator” means the chief...

§ 20-9-202. Penalties - (a) Any person, partnership, association, or corporation establishing, conducting, managing,...

§ 20-9-203. Injunction - The State Board of Health may sue in the name...

§ 20-9-204. Administration by Division of Health Facilities Services - (a) There is established in the Department of Health a...

§ 20-9-205. Powers and duties of State Board of Health - (a) In carrying out this subchapter, the State Board of...

§ 20-9-206. Construction program — Survey and planning activities - (a) The State Board of Health is empowered and directed...

§ 20-9-207. Construction program — Federal funds for surveying and planning - (a) The State Board of Health may make application to...

§ 20-9-209. Construction program — Application for funds - (a) Applications for hospital and medical facilities construction projects for...

§ 20-9-210. Construction program — Payment of installments - The State Board of Health shall from time to time...

§ 20-9-211. Construction program — Federal funds - (a) The State Board of Health is empowered to receive...

§ 20-9-212. Minimum standards for hospitals and other institutions - (a) The State Board of Health shall require hospitals and...

§ 20-9-213. License required — Administration by State Board of Health - (a) No hospital, recuperation center, or related institution shall be...

§ 20-9-214. Issuance of license — Fees - (a) The State Board of Health shall issue licenses for...

§ 20-9-215. License — Denial, suspension, and revocation - (a) The State Board of Health is empowered to deny,...

§ 20-9-216. License — Judicial review - (a) Any applicant or licensee who is dissatisfied with the...

§ 20-9-217. Alterations, additions, and new construction of facilities - (a) Before commencing alterations, additions, or new construction under this...

§ 20-9-218. Emergency services facilities - (a) The Department of Health is empowered to license under...

§ 20-9-219. Inspections of facilities — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Accrediting organization” means...

§ 20-9-220. Annual report - The Department of Health shall make an annual report of...

§ 20-9-221. Information confidential - (a) Information received by the Department of Health through inspection,...

§ 20-9-222. Certification fee - The Department of Health may levy and collect a fee...

§ 20-9-223. Medical office licensure - A medical office owned and operated by a physician or...

Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions

§ 20-9-301. Posting of room rates - (a) All public and private hospitals located and operated in...

§ 20-9-302. Abortion clinics, health centers, etc - (a) (1) A clinic, health center, or other facility in...

§ 20-9-304. Use of records for medical research - (a) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other data...

§ 20-9-305. Annual reports — Nonprofit hospitals - (a) (1) Any nonprofit hospital association or corporation organized under...

§ 20-9-306. Annual reports — Public-supported hospitals - (a) All public-supported hospitals in the State of Arkansas shall...

§ 20-9-307. Itemized statement for services, drugs, and supplies - (a) (1) Upon the patient's request at the time of...

§ 20-9-308. Advice by hospital employees to reviewing committees - When requested, any physician, surgeon, hospital administrator, nurse, technologist, and...

§ 20-9-309. Emergency Medical Care Act — Definitions - (a) This section may be cited as the “Emergency Medical...

§ 20-9-310. No liability for furnishing medical records or accessing information pursuant to subpoena or other legal obligation or authority - Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no person or...

§ 20-9-311. Findings — Definitions - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Numerous workers who...

Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers

§ 20-9-401. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Freestanding birthing center” means...

§ 20-9-402. Deliveries — Dismissal of mother and infant - (a) A freestanding birthing center shall have a qualified medical...

§ 20-9-403. Regulation by Department of Health - (a) The Department of Health shall establish and enforce rules:...

§ 20-9-404. License fee - The Department of Health may levy and collect a fee...

§ 20-9-405. Practice of midwifery - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the...

Subchapter 5 - Peer Review Committees

§ 20-9-501. Definition - As used in this subchapter, “peer review committee” or “committee”...

§ 20-9-502. Liability of committee members - (a) There shall be no monetary liability on the part...

§ 20-9-503. Proceeding and records confidential — Exception - (a) (1) The proceedings and records of a peer review...

Subchapter 6 - Consent to Treatment

§ 20-9-601. Definition - (a) As used in this subchapter, “of unsound mind” means...

§ 20-9-602. Consent generally — Definition - It is recognized and established that, in addition to other...

§ 20-9-603. Implied consent — Definition - In addition to any other instances in which consent is...

§ 20-9-604. Consent given by court in emergency - (a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this...

Subchapter 7 - Medicare

§ 20-9-701. Uniform Medicare charges - The agency administering the Medicare program in Arkansas shall establish...

§ 20-9-702. Immunity of hospital utilization review committees - (a) Physicians and others appointed to hospital utilization review committees...

Subchapter 8 - Transplants

§ 20-9-801. Declaration of policy - (a) The availability of scientific knowledge, skills, and materials for...

§ 20-9-802. Limitation of liability - No physician, surgeon, hospital, blood bank, tissue bank, or other...

Subchapter 9 - Utilization Review

§ 20-9-901. Purpose - The purpose of this subchapter is to: (1) Promote the...

§ 20-9-902. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) [Repealed.] (2) “Certificate” means...

§ 20-9-903. Certificate required - A private review agent who approves or denies payment or...

§ 20-9-904. When certificate not required - (a) The State Board of Health may waive the requirements...

§ 20-9-905. Penalty - (a) A person who violates any provision of this subchapter...

§ 20-9-906. Duties of State Board of Health - (a) (1) In accordance with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act,...

§ 20-9-907. Health insurance plans — Insurers - (a) (1) Every health insurance plan proposing to issue or...

§ 20-9-908. Application for certification — Fee - (a) An applicant for a certificate shall: (1) Submit an...

§ 20-9-909. Information required with application - In conjunction with the application, the private review agent shall...

§ 20-9-910. Expiration of certificate — Renewal - (a) A certificate expires on the second anniversary of its...

§ 20-9-911. Revocation or denial of certificate - (a) The State Board of Health may revoke or deny...

§ 20-9-912. Appeals - (a) (1) Before denying or revoking a certificate under this...

§ 20-9-913. Confidentiality - A private review agent may not disclose or publish individual...

§ 20-9-914. Liability unaffected - Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to reduce or...

Subchapter 10 - Acute Stroke Care Act of 2005

§ 20-9-1001. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 20-9-1002. Findings - The General Assembly finds that: (1) The citizens of the...

§ 20-9-1003. Acute Stroke Care Task Force — Creation - (a) There is created the Acute Stroke Care Task Force...

§ 20-9-1004. Powers and duties - The Acute Stroke Care Task Force shall: (1) Make recommendations...

§ 20-9-1005. State Board of Health — Powers and duties - The State Board of Health, after consultation with the Acute...

Subchapter 11 - Cervical Cancer Care Act of 2005

§ 20-9-1101. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Cervical Cancer Care...

§ 20-9-1102. Cervical Cancer Task Force — Creation - (a) There is created the Cervical Cancer Task Force to...

§ 20-9-1103. Cervical Cancer Task Force — Powers and duties - (a) The Cervical Cancer Task Force shall: (1) Make recommendations...

§ 20-9-1104. State Board of Health — Powers and duties - After consultation with the Cervical Cancer Task Force and if...

Subchapter 12 - Health Facility Infection Disclosure Act of 2007

§ 20-9-1201. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 20-9-1202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Health facility” means...

§ 20-9-1203. Health facility reports - (a) A health facility shall collect data on healthcare-associated infection...

§ 20-9-1204. Advisory Committee on Healthcare Acquired Infections - (a) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall appoint...

§ 20-9-1205. Reports regarding healthcare-associated infections - (a) (1) (A) In consultation with the Advisory Committee on...

§ 20-9-1206. Legislative intent — Privacy and confidentiality - (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that...

§ 20-9-1207. Rules - The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules to implement...

§ 20-9-1208. Funding - This subchapter is contingent upon the appropriation and availability of...

Subchapter 13 - Arkansas Peer Review Fairness Act

§ 20-9-1301. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 20-9-1302. Findings and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The peer review...

§ 20-9-1303. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Adversely affect”, when used...

§ 20-9-1304. Standards for professional review actions and professional review activities - (a) Professional review activity shall be conducted and professional review...

§ 20-9-1306. Suspensions - (a) If failure to take a professional review action may...

§ 20-9-1308. Relationship to other laws and regulations - (a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this...

§ 20-9-1309. Standards for investigations - (a) A physician shall be informed in writing within five...

§ 20-9-1310. Standards for hearings and related matters - (a) (1) A physician who is the subject of a...

§ 20-9-1311. Nonwaivable - (a) Unless part of a mutually agreed upon mediation or...

§ 20-9-1312. Applicability - On and after August 1, 2017, this subchapter shall apply...

§ 20-9-1313. Remedy - (a) Within sixty (60) days of a final decision that...

Subchapter 14 - Carter's Law: The Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program

§ 20-9-1401. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Child care facility” means...

§ 20-9-1402. Shaken baby syndrome education program established - (a) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall establish...

§ 20-9-1403. Distribution of shaken baby syndrome educational materials - (a) A copy of the shaken baby syndrome educational materials...

§ 20-9-1404. Data on shaken baby syndrome - (a) At the conclusion of a child maltreatment investigation under...

§ 20-9-1405. Rules - The State Board of Health shall adopt rules to implement...

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Arkansas Code Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally

Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally