Hospitals; definition.
The term "hospitals" as used in this act shall include hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions operated for the purposes mentioned in section 2 of this act.
Michigan · statute · 109 of 1945, Mich. Comp. Laws · 13 active provisions
The term "hospitals" as used in this act shall include hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions operated for the purposes mentioned in section 2 of this act.
Hereafter it shall be competent and lawful for the board of supervisors of any county in this state now or hereafter having a population of more than 100,000 as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken, to acquire, own, construct, establish, maintain and operate…
The board of supervisors of any county coming within the provisions of section 2 of this act, is hereby authorized and empowered to raise by taxation necessary funds for the purpose of acquiring, owning, constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating a hospital for the treatment of contagious or infectious diseases…
A board of trustees for the management of any hospital created hereunder shall be appointed by the board of supervisors of the county in which such hospital is to be acquired, maintained and operated. Said trustees shall be residents and freeholders of the county and may be members of the board of supervisors. Said boa…
Contracts for the acquisition or construction and the equipment of any hospital to be acquired, erected, operated and maintained under the provisions of this act shall be let by the board of supervisors of the county. In the case of construction, such work may be let as an entirety or in sections, whichever may be deem…
Subject to the provisions of this act each such board of trustees shall operate the hospital or institution under its charge and may employ, within appropriations made by the board of supervisors of the county, a medical superintendent, physicians, nurses, and such other employees as may be necessary. The medical staff…
Any person afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, for whose treatment and care the county maintaining such hospital or institution is responsible, shall be admitted to such hospital or institution upon the certificate of the health officer of such county. Any indigent person suffering from any physical ailm…
No member of the board of trustees of any hospital established or maintained hereunder shall be entitled to receive compensation for his services. Any such trustee, however, shall be reimbursed on account of any expense necessarily incurred by him in the performance of his official duties. All claims against the hospit…
Any person or persons, firm, organization, corporation or society may make donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such hospital, and shall have the right to vest title of the property so donated in the county. Such gifts, when accepted, shall be used in accordance with the terms of the…
Prior to the regular October session of the board of supervisors in each year, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the hospital or institution to make and present to the board a full and detailed report of the operations during the preceding year and of the receipts and disbursements. Said board of trustee…
No part of this act shall be construed to affect, alter or be in derogation of any statute of this state pertaining to the care, treatment, reporting, isolation, commitment or hospitalization of persons afflicted with tuberculosis.
Any hospital now owned by a county may be transferred by the board of supervisors of said county to the control of a board of trustees created under this act, and thereafter maintained and operated under the provisions of this act.
It shall be competent and lawful for the board of supervisors of any county in this state now or hereafter having a population of more than 1,000,000 as determined by the latest of each succeeding federal decennial census to acquire, own, construct, establish, maintain and operate, in the same manner and by the same me…