HOSPITALS

Missouri House of Representatives
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HOSPITALS
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: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide educational material and information on prostate cancer screenings and testing.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide requesting hospitals with rape kits to aid in the identification of rape suspects.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide hospitals with rape kits.

: Enacts the "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002".

: Allows public hospitals to close portions of their records.

: Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.

: Enacts the Disposition of Human Fetuses Act.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

: Requires physicians to maintain adequate, complete, and legible written patient records for each patient.

: Expands the list of medical facilities and agencies that must report disciplinary actions.

: Allows a parent to leave a child in the custody of a hospital without threat of criminal prosecution for child abandonment.

: Increases the penalties for forcible rape and sodomy and attempted forcible rape and sodomy and prohibits bail for certain sex crimes.

: Enacts and amends various provisions regarding long-term care staffing, career ladder provisions, and quality of care issues.

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

: Creates crime of assault while on the property of a hospital emergency room or trauma center.

: Enacts the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act which allows a birth mother to determine the final disposition of any fetal remains.

: Establishes a nurse staffing plan for hospitals.

: Creates new crimes of terrorism.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish nurse-to-patient staff ratios for hospitals.

: Modifies various provisions relating to Missouri's certificate of need laws.

: Prohibits public hospitals from not employing any licensed physician who complies with all hospital rules.

: Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a hospital.

: Clarifies the use of non-compete clauses in contracts between physicians and hospitals.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Makes several changes to the Sunshine Law governing meetings and records of public entities.

: Requires disclosure of the transfer of human fetal parts for research purposes.

: Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for twenty-four hours of inpatient care following surgery.

: Creates provisions relating to insurance mandates, reporting of health data, and the provisions of charity care.

: Revises certificate of need law and enacts a review certification procedure for acute care facilities.

: Requires informed consent by a women before the performance of an abortion.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the Nursing Student Loan Program.

: Allows the continuation of a newborn hearing screening from a transferring facility to a receiving facility.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am