Title 36, Public Health and Safety

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Chief medical officer" means the chief medical officer of the state hospital. 2. "Department" means the department of health services. 3. "Director" means the director of the department of health services. 4. "Employee" …

A. A state hospital shall be maintained for the care and treatment of persons with mental disorders and persons with other personality disorders or emotional conditions who will benefit from care and treatment. Admissions to the state hospital shall be in accordance with law. The…

The Arizona state hospital shall collect census data for juvenile treatment programs to establish maximum capacity and the allocation formula required pursuant to section 36-206, subsection D. The Arizona state hospital is not required to provide services to juveniles that exceed…

A. The department of health services shall develop and provide, in coordination with the department of economic security, specialized treatment programs for persons with an intellectual disability who have been admitted to the state hospital. The department of health services may…

The director shall: 1. Adopt rules for inpatient services that ensure proper review of treatment and discharge plans, arrangement for aftercare placements, transfer of medical records and assistance with medications. 2. If deemed advisable, establish a nurses' training school in …

A. There shall be a superintendent of the state hospital who shall be appointed by and under the supervision of the director. B. The compensation to be paid to the superintendent shall be determined pursuant to section 38-611. C. The superintendent shall be removed only for cause…

A. The director has charge of the state hospital and the superintendent shall supervise and direct its activities, subject to the provisions of law and approval of the director. The superintendent is directly responsible to the director for carrying out the purposes for which the…

A. A state hospital employee or volunteer must have a valid fingerprint clearance card issued pursuant to section 41-1758.07 or must apply for a fingerprint clearance card within seven working days after beginning employment or performing volunteer work. The employee or volunteer…

A. Except as otherwise provided by this article, the director shall employ all employees of the state hospital. The director may employ necessary medical consultants on recommendation of the superintendent. The director may permit members of the medical staff to act as consultant…

A. At such time as the director designates, the superintendent shall submit to the director a report of the activities of the state hospital during the preceding fiscal year, including: 1. The number of patients received, conditionally discharged and discharged and voluntary pati…

A. This article does not give the director or any employee authority to create a debt or obligation in excess of the amount appropriated by the legislature to carry out its provisions. If monies are not appropriated to carry out the purpose of this article, the director shall sub…

In addition to other funds appropriated to its use, any other law notwithstanding, the legislature may appropriate to the use of the state hospital the annual income from land rentals and interest on the investment of the permanent funds arising from the grant of land for insane …

The superintendent, under the direction of the director, shall equip, staff and supervise the operation of an area consisting of one or more separate buildings on the state hospital grounds in Phoenix to be designated a maximum security area. The superintendent shall designate wh…

A. The superintendent, with the approval of the director, may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of the hospital that is not needed for other authorized purposes for the establishment and maintenance of store and canteen facilities for the sale of candies, cigarette…

A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, pursuant to requests for proposals, the department of health services may enter into a five year contract with a private entity to administer the Arizona state hospital and deliver client services. The contract shall allow the departmen…

A. The permanent state hospital revolving fund is established in the amount of five thousand dollars for use in making cash outlays for postage, C.O.D. packages, travel or other minor disbursements which are proper as ultimate claims for payment from state funds. Such expenditure…

A. The department shall present a budget request that includes all information on the potential availability of other monies, including federal monies, that may be used in the following fiscal year to fund the state hospital. B. The budget request presented pursuant to subsection…

A. On or before January 1 of each year, the director shall submit to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate a financial and programmatic report on the state hospital for the preceding fiscal year. In addition to information that …

The Arizona state hospital charitable trust fund is established consisting of monies collected from contracts and lease agreements entered into pursuant to section 36-136, subsection C. The director shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated and m…

A. The department may contract for art therapy services, directly or through a contractor, only with an art therapist who holds an active national board certification in art therapy from the art therapy credentials board or who is a master's level graduate in art therapy under th…

A. The state laboratory shall be located in such places as the department of health services determines. B. The laboratory shall examine and analyze such foods, water supplies, drugs and other specimens as the director of the department of health services directs.

A. The state laboratory shall be under the supervision of a chief who shall be appointed by the director of the department of health services. B. The laboratory chief shall be a skilled pharmaceutical chemist or bacteriologist and analyst of foods, water supplies and drugs.

A. The laboratory chief shall perform the duties prescribed by law and by the director of the department of health services. B. The laboratory chief may make provisions or issue directions for taking and forwarding samples of potable waters, and perishable foods or drinks.

A certificate of analysis and examination by the chief of the state laboratory is prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

A. Whenever the chief of the state laboratory finds that adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded food has been on sale in the state, he shall forthwith report the facts to the director of the department of health services. B. The chief of the laboratory shall make an annual report …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Children who have a chronic illness or physical disability" means children who are under twenty-one years of age and whose primary diagnosis is a severe physical condition that may require ongoing, medical or surgical in…

Subject to the availability of monies, the department shall establish and administer a program for children who have a chronic illness or physical disability or who are suffering from a condition that leads to a chronic illness or physical disability. The program shall provide fo…

A. The purposes of the information and referral service for children who have a chronic illness or physical disability as prescribed pursuant to this article are to: 1. Establish a roster of agencies providing medical, educational, financial, social and transportation services to…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the department of health services. 2. "Disease" means a condition or disorder that causes the human body to deviate from its normal or healthy state and that has no known general cure or adequate medica…

The department shall advance research in this state relating to: 1. The causes, epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases. 2. The formulation of cures for diseases. 3. The development of medically accepted treatment and prevention of diseases, including the discovery and development…

A. The department may: 1. Use monies in the disease control research fund established by section 36-274 to contract with individuals, organizations, corporations and institutions, public or private, in this state for any projects or services that the department determines may adv…

A. The disease control research fund is established consisting of monies received from the state lottery fund pursuant to section 5-572, subsection D, monies appropriated by the legislature and any gifts, contributions or other monies received by the department from any source to…

A. The health research fund is established. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the department shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, all monies it administers pursuant to section 36-773 into the health research fund. The department shall administer the fund.…