Bill No. 79 of 1953 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 by the addition of clause (

m) de­ fining "special hospital services". Sections 3h, 3i, 3j, 3k, 3l and 3m are added to the Act.

Section 3h provides for the designating of special hospital services by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Section 3i provides for the payment by the Minister of a refund for special hospital services in the case of municipal hospital district boards and local authorities entitled to the hospitalization grant provided for by this Act. The refund will not exceed fifty per ~ent of the amount re­ mitted or paid by the board or local authority on account of special hospital services supplied a ratepayer or contract holder.

Section 3j provides for the payment or reimbursement for special hospital services in the case of a ratepayer or con­ tract holder hospitalized in a hospital other than the mlm­ icipal hospital district hospital, or an approved hospital with which the board or local authority has a special hos .. pital services agreement.

Section 3k prohibits the payment of a special hospital services grant in respect of a person referred to in

section 3d.

Section 3l provides for the making of regulations in con­ nection with the administration and payment of special hos­ pital services reimbursement payments.

Section 3m provides that the Province's share of the costs of providing the special hospital services refund and reimbursement be paid out of moneys a·ppropriated therefor by the Legislature. This Bill comes into force on the 1st day of June, 1953. J. W.RYAN, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the BiU but is offered in explanation of its provisions.)

Section 2 amended "RPeclnl hO&JIItal 6ei"VIces'' New section~ !Ill .to 3m Inclusive Special hoapltal l!ervlces Refund of special hospital services coeta Jtelmburae­ ment tor ~pealal hOIIpltal Aei"VIces BILL No. 79 of 1953

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act (Assented to '1958) 'HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Hospitals Act, being

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

Section 2 is amended by adding immediately after clause (

l) the following new clause: "(m) 'special hospital services' means the hospital ser­ vices that have been designated special hospital services •by regulation pursuant to

section 3h.". 3. The following new sections are added· immediately after

section 3g: "3h. The Lieutenant Governor in Council, from time to time by regulation, may designate as sp~ial hospital ser­ vices any or all of such hospital procedures, treatments, services, care, tests, drugs, dressings and medications as are not included in standard ward hospitalization. "3i.

(1) The Minister may enter into an agreement with the board of a municipal hospital district operating its own hospital and pursuant to such agreement may refund to the board an amount not exceeding one-half of the cost, as de­ termined in the agreement, of supplying special hospital services to the ratepayers and contract holders of the boa,rd while in the hospital. "

(2) If a board of a municipal hospital district or a local authority of a municipality, as the case may be, "(

a) is qualified to receive a hospitalization grant under clause (

b) of subsection (1) of

section 3a, and ·' " (

b) enters into a special hospital services agreement which "(

i) is made with an approved hospital with which an agreement is in effect under subclause (

i) of clause (

b) of subsection (1) of

section 3a, "(ii) is approved by the Minister, "(iii) makes provision for the payment by the board of the municipal hospital district or local authority of the municipality of all or part of the cost of special hospital servi~s provided the ratepayer or contract holder while hospital­ ized in the a.pproved hospital,

the Minister may reimburse the board of the municipal hospital district or local authority, as the case may be, for part of the cost of the special hospital services in an amount not exceeding one-half of the amount paid in respect of special hospital services by the board or local authority to the approved hospital. "3]'· If Reimburse-ment tor "(

a) a ratepayer or contract holder receives special hos- h~':du~ 1 pita] serviceR as an emergency admission or as a servicea medically referr-ed admission in an approved hos- pital other than the hosnital with which his munici- pal hospital district or iocal authority has a special hospital servicPs agreement, and " ( lJ) the municipal hospital district board or local authority which would have been responsible for his special hospital services pays on account of the special hospital services supplied the ratepayer or contract holder an amount equivalent to the cost of the special hospital services to which he would have been entitled to have remitted in the hospital oper­ ated by the municipal hospital district board or to have paid in the hospital with which his municipal hospital district board or local authority has a special hospital services agreement , : the Minister may reimburse the board of the municipal hospital district or the local authority of the municipality, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the amount thP ·.board or local authority would have been reimbursed if the ; ratepayer or contract holder had been hospitalized in the ·hospital operated by the board or in the hospital with which the board or local authority has a special hospital services - ~ agreement. ' "3k.

The special hospital services grant shall not be l->t>eclui hospital services in respect of any persons or class of persons who gt·ant no~ paid "(a) ... .. pavablf' 111 may be excluded by order of the Lieutenant Gov- eertatn ernor in Council from the classes of persons in re- ··aRcs spect of whom grants are payable, " (

b) in respect of any person who, in the opinion of the medical inspector of hospitals, does not require active treatment in an approved hospital. "3l. The Minister with the approval of the Lieutenant t:o·guiali" 11 ~ G · C ·1' k h 1 t' '"" ~pcclni overnor m ounc1 , may rna e sue regu a wns as may ho~vttat be deemed necessary or advisable in connection with the s•·•·,·i<-e<'! administration and payment of refunds and reimburse- ments for special hospital services. ,\pprnrpria· t.1nn or "3m.

The special hospital services refund and reimburse- ,~t•enta.t ment authorized by this Act shall be paid out of such moneys ~·;~~~:~ as may be appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature. rerunds a11t1 relmburae· ments 4. This Act comes into force on the first day of June, c oming tnt" 1953. force

No. 79 FillST SESSION 1WELFI'H l.F..GISlAnJR.E 2 ELIZABETH U 1953 BILL

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act Received and read the First time ........................................ . Second time ........ .............................. . Third time .. ................. .................. . HoN. DR. CROSS Title: 1953 (12th, 1st) Bill 79,

An Act to amend The Hospitals Act