SENATE BILL No. 947

December 11, 2001, Introduced by Senators SHUGARS, VAN REGENMORTER,

BULLARD, JOHNSON, MC MANUS, SIKKEMA, GOUGEON, HAMMERSTROM, NORTH, GARCIA, SANBORN, SCHUETTE, GOSCHKA, STEIL, SCHWARZ and

STILLE and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

"Public health code,"

by amending section 21513 (MCL 333.21513), as amended by 1993 PA

79.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1 Sec. 21513. The owner, operator, and governing body of a

2 hospital licensed under this article:

3 (a) Are responsible for all phases of the operation of the

4 hospital, selection of the medical staff, and quality of care

5 rendered in the hospital.

6 (b) Shall cooperate with the department in the enforcement

7 of this part, and require that the physicians, dentists, and

8 other personnel working in the hospital and for whom a license

9 or registration is required be WHO ARE REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED

10 OR REGISTERED ARE IN FACT currently licensed or registered.

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1 (c) Shall assure that physicians and dentists admitted to

2 practice in the hospital are granted hospital privileges consis-

3 tent with their individual training, experience, and other

4 qualifications.

5 (d) Shall assure that physicians and dentists admitted to

6 practice in the hospital are organized into a medical staff to

7 enable an effective review of the professional practices in the

8 hospital for the purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality and

9 improving the care provided in the hospital for patients. This

10 THE review shall include the quality and necessity of the care

11 provided and the preventability of complications and deaths

12 occurring in the hospital.

13 (e) After December 31, 1989, shall SHALL not discriminate

14 because of race, religion, color, national origin, age, or sex in

15 the operation of the hospital including employment, patient

16 admission and care, room assignment, and professional or nonpro-

17 fessional selection and training programs, and shall not discrim-

18 inate in the selection and appointment of individuals to the phy-

19 sician staff of the hospital or its training programs on the

20 basis of licensure or registration or professional education as

21 doctors of medicine, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or

22 podiatry.

23 (f) Shall assure that the hospital adheres to medical con-

24 trol authority protocols according to section 20918.

25 (G) SHALL ASSURE THAT THE HOSPITAL DEVELOPS AND MAINTAINS A

26 PLAN FOR BIOHAZARD DETECTION AND HANDLING.

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