Bill 70 (Legislature 11, Session 5)

L11 S5 6867

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Bin No. 70 of 1952. A BILL TO AMEND THE HOSPITALS ACT. NOTE. This Bill amends The Hospitals Act, being

chapter 184 of the Revised Statutes of Alherta, 1942. The maj.ority of the amendments contained in this Bill are made for the purpose of providing for an increase in the hospitalization grants payable to municipalities and munic ipal h'Ospital districts. The amount of the grant which is at present fixed by the Act is equa'l to fifty per cent of the former basic standa~d ward rate in appr.oved hospitals. Increased costs of providing hospital services resulted in an increase in the basic standard ward rate.

The amendments provide that the hospitalization grant shall be fifty per cent of the standard ward rate as set by regulation after one dollar per day has been deducted. The Act at present de signates the number .of dollars and cents of grant that will be paid in each case

whereas under the amendment the amount of the grant becomes a fixed percentage of the standard ward rate as set by regulation, whatever that might be. The sections amended for this purpose are

section 3a, subsection (2),

section 3b, subsections (2) to (6) in clusive,

section 3g;

section 3e is repealed for the same purpose and

section 3d is amended to conform. The increased grants were authorized by order in council subject to the enactment of this validating legislation. The. order in council was effective the first of January, 1952 so these particular secti.ons of the Bill are made retroactive to that date.

Section 3 is amended by striking out subsection (1) and substituting a new ~mbsection. The subsection now authorizes the Lieutenant Governor in Council toO pay to an approved hospital a per diem allowance in respect of each person hospitalized. The latter part of the subsection authorizes the Lieutenant Governor in Council to exclude certain persons 'Or classes of persons from the 'Operation of this section. The effect of the amendment is to enable the Lieutenant Gover nor in Council, in his discretion, to exclude designated hospi tals from the operati'On of this

section so that such hospitals would not receive the per diem allowance. A similar amend- ment is made to

section 3b. .

Section 3d lists the cases where a hospitalization grant is not payable. A new clause (

c) is added to this

section enumerating another case where a grant is not payable, namely, in respect of the hospitalization of a person who, in

ii the opinion of the medical inspector of hospitals, does not require active treatment. Clause (

a) is alsO' amended so as to' make the clause apply generally rather than to ratepayers solely.

Section 6, subsection (4) is amended. This subsection provides that no local authority is liable to pay on account of the care or treatment of an indigent sick person more than three hundred dollars in anyone year. The effect of the amendment is to increase the liability of the local authority from three to four hundred dollars. Except as otherwise provided, the Bill comes into force upon assent. J. W. RYAN, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note (loes not form any part of the Bill but is offered in explanation of its provisions.)

BILL No. 70 .of 1952.

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act. (Assented to , 1952.) HER MAJ~ST!, by and with the advice and consent of the LegIslatIve Assembly of the Pr.ovince of Alberta enacts as follows: ' 1. The Hospitals Act, being

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

Section 3 is amended by striking out subsection

(1) Section 3 'and by substituting the foll.owing: amended "3.

(1) The Lieutenant Govern.or in Council may pay to Allowance to an approved hospital which has filed with the Department ~~~~ft~~: the returns hereinafter pr'Ovided f.or a per diem allowance in respect of each person admitted toO the hospital or treated therein, except in respect of any hospital or .of any person or of any class of persons that, in the discretion of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, may be excluded by order from the operation of this section.".

Section 3a is amended by striking out subsection (2).

Section 3a amended

Section 3b is amended,- (

a) by striking out clause (

c) of subsection (2) and by secti0d~b substituting the following: amen " (

c) the municipal hospital district or local author- ity providing the contract plan for hospitaliza- tion authorizes the purchase of contracts by non-ratepayers under which contracts benefits become available on the first day of January .or on the first day of July of each year."; (

b) by striking out subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) and by substituting the following: "

(3) The amount of the hospitalization grant to Amount of . .. 1· t .. 1 h ·tal hospitaliza-be paId to a munIcIpa'Ity or 0 a munIClpa OSpI tion grant district that has entered into an agreement with an approved hospital shall be fifty per cent of the ,s,tandard ward rate as set by regulation after one dollar per day has been deducted. "

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), in a case where the rate to be paid for standard ward care as fixed by an approved agreement is less than the standaro ward rate set by the regulations, the amount of the hospitalization grant to be paid shall be fifty per cent 'Of the rate fixed in the approved agreement.

Section 3d amended

Section 36 repealed

Section 3g amended

Section 6 amended Coming into force 2 "

(5) The amDunt Df the hDspitalizatiDn grant to be paid to. a municipal hospital district operating its own hospital shall be fifty per cent of the standard ward ra.1:€ as set by regulation after one dDllar per day has been deducted. "

(6) In any case where the CDSt of the contract to the contract hDlder exceeds the amount fixed by regulation under subsection (2), clause (

a) a hospi talization grant may be paid to the board of a municipal hDspital district Dr to the local authority Df the municipality, as the case may be, at the end of each calendar year, equivalent to the total cost to the municipal hospital district or municipality, whichever the case may be, of ,providing standard ward care to contract holders, after deducting there from the revenue received from the sale 'Of con tracts. " (,7) In no. case shall the grant payable under subsection (6) exceed the hospitalization grant mentioned in subsections (3), (4) and (5)."; (

c) by renumbering the present subsection (7) as sub

section ( 8) .

Section 3d is amended,- (

a) by striking Dut the wDrds "per diem" and by sub stituting the word "hDspitalizatio.n"; (

b) by striking out the wDrd "ratepayer" where it occurs in clause (

a) and by substituting the word "person" ; (

c) by adding immediately after clause (

b) the follow ing new clause: " (

c) in respect of any person who., in the opinion of the medical inspector of hospitals, does not require active treatment in an approved hDS pital." .

Section 3e is repealed. 7. SectiDn 3g is alnended by striking out the words "per' diem".

Section 6 is amended by striking out the word "three", wberever it Dccurs in subsection (4) and the proviso, and by substituting the word "four". 9. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to and upon S'O coming into force sectiDn 3, cIa uses (

a) and (

b) of secti'On 4 and sections 6 and 7 shall be deemed to. have been in force at all times on and after the first day of January, 1952.

No. 70 FIFTH SESSION ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE 1 Elizabeth II 1952 BILL

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act. Recei ved and read the First time .................................... . Second time ..... . Third time ................... . RON. DR. CROSS. Title: 1952 (11th, 5th) Bill 70,

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act

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