Bill 52 (Legislature 12, Session 1)

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Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 52 of 1953 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR HOSPITALIZATION AND TREATMENT SERVICES NOTE This Bill enacts a new Act to be known as "The Hospital ization and Treatment Services Act". The Minister of Health is authorized to provide for part or all of the costs of hospitalization and· treatment services for a person and his dependents residing in Alberta. The person must be in receipt of provincial old age assistance, or mothers' allowance, or a supplementary allowance, or a widow's pension and must not be the responsibility, for health and welfare serv~ces, of the Government of Canada.

The Minister may provide the costs of hospitalization and treatment services for persons under twenty-five years of age who are resident in Alberta and suffering from the effects of rheumatoid arthritis. This does not apply to persons who are the responsibility of the Government of Canada for health and welfare services.

Also, the Act enables the Minister to provide for the costs of similar services in the case of ·recipients of Canadian old age pensions or old age security benefits if they have re sided in Alberta for three years prior to their application and if they can qualify to a test of means which is set out in

section 5. These recipients must not be the responsibility of the Canadian Government for health and welfare puT poses. The Minister is empowered to make agreements with ap proved hospitals with respect to treatment seTvices for the persons entitled to benefits under this Act. He may also pay for hospitalization and treatment services in an ap proved hospital that does not enter into an agreement for such purposes but the person receiving the treatment is re quiTed to submit the account to the Minister. The same benefits may be given under

section 8 to per sons afflicted with cerebral palsy. Agreements may be entered into with other provinces having similar legislation whereby residents of that prov ince in Alberta may receive benefits under this Act and Alberta residents in that other province receive benefits under the Act or Acts of that other province. · The Minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant Gover nor in Council, may pay to any general hospital operating a school of nursing a sum not exceeding three hundred dolla:rs for each nurse trained in and graduated from that school, and may pay to any general hospital operating a ,~,_ ..a

ii school of nursing the sum of one hundred dollars for each graduate of the school of nursing of any provincial mental hospital who received approximately two years of her train ing in the said general hospital. With the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Minister may subsidize any insurance organization or company that provides a policy or scheme of insurance for Alberta residents covering all or part of the costs of the special hospital services not provided under standard ward hospitalization, and may make r~gulations with respect to the subsidy.

The Minister may make regulations concerning applica tions, investigations, deftrting and determining income for the purpose of

section 5, and such regulations as may be necessary to effect the purposes of the Act. The expenses incurred in administering the Act are to be met by moneys appropriated for the purpose by the Legislature. This Bill comes into force upon assent. J.W.RYAN, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the BiU but is offered in explanation of its provisions.)

BILL No. 52 of 1953

An Act to Provide for Hospitalization and Treatment Services ( AB&ented to '1959) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of AllKtrta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Hospitalization and Rhnrt ttt !c Treatment Services Act". 2.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, ~~t~rp• · eta- (a) "hospitalization" means the provision of standard "hOf!pltuttzll ward hospital services, including routine treatment, tton drugs and dressings; (b) "Minister" means the Minister of Health; "Minister" (c) "resident of the Province" means a person who at "resident or . the time he applies for hospitalization or treatm'ent the ProvtnN ·' services, had his home within the boundaries· of the Provinee and had resided therein as a self-support- ina- person, for twelve consecutive months out of the immediately preceding twenty-four months ; (d) "self-supporting person,. means a person who is "selt-sup able to and does provide subsisteDC$ for himself and ~~::!~~'!', such depe.ndants as he is under a legal obligation to support without applying for and receiving assist- ance from public funds; (e) "treatment services" means the application of all "trea.tm~nt d• t• d t• ed services necessary 1a~os 1c an cura 1ve proc urea as provided for m the regulations made under the provisions of this Act. 3.

The Minister may provide for part or all of the costs Persons f 1...~ft "tali t• nd tre tm t • f entltled to 0 necessary uvopl· za IOn a a en services Or a hospltallza - person and his dependants residdng in the Province if such ~~~~~~:nt person services (

a) is in receipt of (

i) assistance granted by the Province of Alberta under The Old Age AssiBtance Act, or · (ii) an allowance under The Mothers' Allowance Act, or (iii) an allowance under Ths Supplementary Allow ances Act, or

Rheumatoid nt·thrltls Pension erA 2 (iv) a pension under The Widows' Pensions Act, and (

b) is not, for the pui"ppSes of health and welfare ser vices, the responsibility of the Government of Canada. 4. The Minister may provide for part or all of the costs of hospitalization and treatment services for a person under twenty-five years of age who is resident of the Province, and who is suffering f·rom the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, and is not, for the purposes of health and welfa·re services the responsibility of the Government of Canada. 5. The Minister may provide for part or all of the costs of necessary hoSpitalization and treatment services for a person (

a) who has resided in the Province for the greater portion of the three years immediately preceding the date he was awarded a pension under (

i) the Old Age Pensions Act (Canada), or (ii) The Old Age Security Act (Canada) if he has not been in receipt of a pension under the Old Age Pensions Act (Canada) prior to the first day of January, 1952, and (

b) who is (

i) unmarried and his income, inclusive of the pension, is not more than one thousand dollars a year, or (ii) married and living with hlis spouse, and the total income, inclusive of the pension, of there cipient and his spouse, is not more than fifteen hundred dollars a year, and (

c) who is not, for the pu~ of health and welfare services, the responsibility of the Government of Canada. Hospltallza- 6. ( 1) The Minister is hereby authorized to enter into tlon agree - ment an agreement upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper with the board, governing body or person who operates an approved. hospital as defined in The Hospitals Act, for the reception, care and treatment of the persons referred to in sections 3, 4 and 5.

(2) In any agreement entered into, provision may be made for the payment according to the services, facilities and equipment available in the hospital. :~~~e~~

(3) The Minister may pay to a person who receives agreement hospital services in an approved hospital that has not entered into an agreement with the Minister, an amount equivalent to what the hospital would have been entitled to had such an agreement been made, if the person submits to the Minister the account received from the hospital.

3 7. The Minister may provide a treatment service for ~:r::rat persons afflicted with cerebral palsy who are residents of the Province and who are not a responsibility of the Gov ernment of Canada. 8. The Minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant ~:~henta Governor in Council, may enter into an agreement with the ;rovlnce:r government of any other province of Canada. (

a) that provides hospitalization and treatment .services of the nature authorized by this Act, and (

b) that has agreed to and does provide hospitalization and treatment services to persons who are residents of the Province of Alberta and who have moved to that other province, provid·ing for hospitalization and treatment services to per sons who are residents of that other province and who move to the Province of Alberta. 9. The Minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant ~~~.!l~gto Governor in Council, may pay to a general hospital that school operates a school of nursing (

a) a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for each nurse who has trained in and graduated from its school of nursing, (

b) a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each nurse (

i) who has trained in and graduated from a school of nursing of a provincial mental hos pital, and (ii) who has received, prior to graduation, approxi mately two years' general hospital training from the school of nursing of the general hospital. 10. With the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Payment ot Council, the Minister ' subsidies (

a) may pay a subsidy to an insurance organization or company providing for residents of Alberta a policy or scheme of insurance covering all or part of the costs of special hospital services not provided under standard ward hospitalization as defined in The Hospitals Act, and (

b) may make such regulations as he may deem neces sary or advisable in connection with the administra tion and payment of the subsidy. 11. The expenses incurred in administering this Act ~pproprln shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for the purpose ton by the Legislature. 12. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make Regulations regulations for carrying the purposes and• provisions of this Act into effect, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations providing for

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a) the time, manner and form of making an applica tion, the information and evidence to be submitted in connection therewith, and the procedu·re to be followed in the consideration of an application, (

b) the investigation into applications, and into the eligibility of a recipient to receive hospitalization and treatment services, the reports to be made and the information to be supplied by or in respect of recipients, (

c) the definition of income for the purposes of

section 5, and the manner in which income is to be de termined, induding the income of a recipient and his spouse, and the determination of the amount thereof that each shall be deemed to receive whether they live together or separate and apart, (

d) determining the amount that, for the purposes of this Act, shall be deemed income of a recipient from any interest in real or personal property of the recipient or his spouse owned or deemed to be owned at the date of making the application or acquired subsequent thereto. 13. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 52 FIRST SESSION TWELFTH LEGISLA11JRE 2 ELIZABETH II 1953 BILL

An Act to Provide for Hespitaliza tion and Treatment Services Received and read the First time Second time. Third time ................ ......... ................ . HON. DR. CROSS Title: 1953 (12th, 1st) Bill 52,

An Act to Provide for Hospitalization and Treatment Services

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L12 S1 6720
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