Bill 34 (Legislature 12, Session 2)

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Bill No. 84 of 1954 A BILL TO AMEND THE HOSPITALS ACT NOTE This Bill amends The Hospitals Act, being

chapter 184 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta,

Section 2 is amended to define "local hospital".

Section 8, subsection (1) is amended to clarify the mean ing of approved hospitals where that term appears in this and other Acts. The meaning is presently obscure.

Section 3b, subsection (2), clause (

c) is amended to per mit the benefit of a hospitalization contract to become avail able sixty days after the contract is entered into. At present benefits under such contracts become available on the 1st of January or the 1st of July. The new provision is addi tional to the old requirement which may still be retained if desired.

Section 3c is replaced by a new

section 8c. The purpose of this amendment is to permit local authorities or munici pal hospital district boards to be paid the daily hospitaliz ation grant where the patient is hospitalized as an emerg ency patient or a referred patient in an active treatment hospital, and where the local authority or board pays the hospitalization account without restricting the hospitaliz ation period of the patient in the active treatment hospital. Previously this permission extended only to such patients as were hospitalized in an approved hospital which of neces sity meant in a provincial hospital .receiving a hospital grant under

section 3. The

section also has been revised to set out more clearly the circumstances in which it applies. A new

section 8n has been added to authorize the Minister to reimburse a local authority or municipal hospital district board up to half of the amount paid by the authority or board to a patient who had been hospitalized in a local hos pital with which the authority or board has not been able to obtain a hospitalization agreement. This authorization is qualified in that the amount of the reimbursement cannot be greater than the amount of reimbursement if an ap proved agreement had been in force with the local hospital.

Section 5 is amended. The amendment to subsection (9) provides that the residence of a baby born in a hospital shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed a resident of its mother's municipality. Previously, the residence of such a baby was determined by its parents' residence. Subsection (10) is amended to correct a reference to

an Act and to add The City Act to the municipal Acts mentioned in this section.

Section 6, subsection (9) is amended for the same purpose as subsection (10) of

section

Section 7, subsection (2) is amended for the purpose of having this

section conform with the proviso in subsection (4) of

section 6 which was added in 1944 and amended in 1952. This Bill is to come into force upon assent. J. W. RYAN, Acting Legislati1Je Counsel. (ThiB note does not form any part of the Bill but is offered in explanation of its pro11isions.)

BILL No. 34 of 1954

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act (Assented to ,1951,) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, en~ts as follows : 1. The Hos'[litals Act, being

chapter 184 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942, is hereby amended.

Section 2 is amended by adding immediately after

section z clause (

e) the following new clause: amended "(e1) 'local hospital' means an approved hospital in, or "local adjacent to, the area controlled by a local authority hospital .. or by a board of a municipal hospital district and acceptable to the Director of Hospital and Medical Services as a local hospital,".

Section 3, subsection (1) is amended by striking out

section a the word "approved" and by substituting the words "active amended treatment".

Section 3b, subsection (2) is amended by striking

section 311 out clause (

c) and by substituting the following: amended "(

c) the municipal hospital district or local authority providing the contract plan for hospitalization authorizes the purchase of contracts by non-rate payers under which benefits become available either "(

i) on the first day of January or the first day of July of each year, or •• (ii) sixty days after the date of purchase of the contract by the non-ratepayer.". 5.

Section Sc is struck out and the following substituted: secttonedso amend "3o. Where Ellglbntt~ "(

a) a ratepayer or contract holder receives hospitaliz- ~!u~~ tal· ation as an emergency admission or as a medically grant referred admission in an active treatment hospital other than "(

i) the hospital operated by his municipal hospital district, or

New

section 8t1 Reimbursement Seotloll II amended 2 "(ii) the hospital with which the board of his munici pal hospital district or his local authority has entered into an agreement, and, "(

b) the municipal hospital district or local authority that would have been responsible for the hospitaliz ation of the ratepayer or contract holder "(

i) pays on account of the hospitalization of the ratepayer or contract holder an amount equiva lent to the cost of the standard ward hospitaliz ation to which he would have been entitled in the hospital operated by the municipal hospital district or in the hospital with which his local authority or the board of his municipal hospital district has entered into an agreement, and "(ii) does not restrict the period of hospitalization for active treatment of the ratepayer or con tract holder, the Minister may pay to the board of the municipal hospital district or to the lo~al authority, whichever is the case, the daily hospitalization grant that would have been paid if the ratepayer or contract holder had been hospitalized in one of the hospitals mentioned in subclauses (

i) and (ii) of clause (a).". 6. The following new

section is added immediately after

section 3m: "3n.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Minister may, subject to subsection (2), reimburse a local authority or a board of a municipal hospital district in an amount up to fifty per cent of the amount paid by the local authority or the board of the municipal hospital district to the ratepayers or contract holders of the local authority or municipal hospital district who have received hospitalization in a local hospital with which the local auth ority or board has no agreement, if the local authority or board has first submitted to the local hospital a proposed agreement that complies with the requirements for agreements upder this Act. "

(2) In no case shall the amount of a reimbursement to a local authority or a board of a municipal hospital district exceed the amount that would have been reimbursed if the proposed agreement submitted to the local hospital had been in force.".

Section 5 is amended (

a) as to subsection (9) by striking out the words "of which its parents are residents" and by substituting the words "of which its mother is a resident" ; (

b) as to subsection (10) by striking out the words "The Town and Village Act", and by substituting the words and figures "The City Act, The Town and Village Act, 1952,". .

Section 6, subsection (9) is amended by striking out seett':inedG the words "The Town and Village Act," and by substituting amen the words and figures "The City Act, The Town and Village Act, 1952,".

Section 7, subsection (2) is amended by striking out secuo4n 47 the WOrd "three" and by substitutiBg the word "four", amen e l.O. This Act comes into force on the day upon which coming tnto it is assented to. force

No. 84 SECOND SESSION lWELFTH LEGISLA lURE 3 ELIZABETH II 1954 BILL

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act Received and read the First time ....................................... .. Second time .... ...... ............. ...... ..... ... . Third time. HON. DR. CROSS Title: 1954 (12th, 2nd) Bill 34,

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act

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