Section 7.12.105. Services required.

	(a)  A general acute care hospital must provide surgical, anesthesia, perinatal, medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, dietetic, laundry, medical records, radiological, laboratory, and emergency care services. A general acute care hospital must also provide speech, occupational, or physical therapy services.  
	(b)  A rural primary care hospital or a critical access hospital must provide the services described in (a) of this section, except that the provision of surgical, anesthesia, perinatal, speech, occupational therapy, or physical therapy services is optional.  
	(c)  A long-term acute care hospital must provide medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, dietetic, occupational therapy, physical therapy, laundry, medical records, radiological, social work, respiratory, and laboratory services.  

Authorities

47.32.010;47.32.030

Notes

Reference

7 AAC 12.100
7 AAC 12.102
7 AAC 12.103
7 AAC 12.104
7 AAC 12.990
7 AAC 72.012

Authority

AS 47.32.010 AS 47.32.030

History

Eff. 11/19/83, Register 88; am 5/4/97, Register 142; am 9/1/2000, Register 155; am 6/23/2006, Register 178