Title 44, Charitable and Curative Institutions.

A for-profit entity or healthcare entity that has participated in the review process may bring an action for declaratory judgment against the decision of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia and may appeal the decision to the Superior Court according to the standards…

If a nonprofit entity is a party to a conversion approved pursuant to § 44-603, the District shall make an assessment, to recover part of the charitable assets, equal to 10% of the amount of the real property tax the healthcare entity would have paid during the past 5 years had i…

(a) The Attorney General for the District of Columbia may seek injunctive relief if the Attorney General for the District of Columbia determines that a person is offering, developing, or operating a entity in violation of this chapter. (b) Any person, including the principal offi…

The requirements of this chapter shall become fully operative on October 23, 1997, without adoption by the Attorney General for the District of Columbia of implementing regulations. In its discretion, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia may issue emergency or propos…

This chapter shall expire on September 30, 2014.

(a) This chapter shall apply as of May 1, 2013. (b) This chapter shall sunset as of September 30, 2014.

This chapter shall expire on September 30, 2016.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Department” means the Department of Health Care Finance. (2) “Hospital” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 44-501(a)(1) but excludes any hospital operated by the federal government and any specialty hospital, as defined b…

(a) There is established as a special fund the Hospital Fund (“Fund”), which shall be administered by the Department in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. (b) Revenue from the following sources shall be deposited in the Fund: (1) Fees collected under this chapter; (2…

(a)(1) Beginning October 1, 2015, and except as provided in subsection (b) of this section and § 44-662.06, the District, through the Office of Tax and Revenue, may charge each hospital a fee based on its inpatient net patient revenue. (2) The fee shall be charged at a uniform ra…

(a) The fee imposed under § 44-662.03 shall be due and payable by the 15th of the last month of each DFY quarter. (b) The fee imposed under § 44-662.03 shall be calculated, due, and payable on a quarterly basis, but shall not be due and payable until the District issues written n…

(a) If a hospital system conducts, operates, or maintains more than one hospital licensed by the Department of Health, the hospital system shall pay the fee for each hospital separately. (b)(1) Notwithstanding § 44-662.03, if a hospital system or person that is subject to a fee u…

(a) If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services determines that an assessment imposed on a hospital pursuant to this chapter does not satisfy the requirements for federal financial participation set forth in section 1903(w) of the Social Security Act that determination shal…

The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 2 of Title 5 [§ 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.

This chapter shall expire on September 30, 2016.

No building for use as a public or private hospital for contagious diseases shall be erected in the District of Columbia within 300 feet of any building owned by a private individual or any other party than the one erecting the building.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site, and to cause to be constructed thereon, in accordance with plans and specifications approved by such Mayor, suitable buildings and structures for use as a Children’s T…

The Providence Hospital is authorized to conduct not only a hospital, clinic, and all the departments, staffs, and services usually connected therewith, but also a school for the education and training of nurses and interns with full power to examine the said nurses and interns a…

The Council of the District of Columbia shall establish from time to time reasonable standards of indigency for admission of patients to municipal hospitals of the District of Columbia; provided, that emergency and semi-indigent patients may be admitted to the general ward and tu…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia, is authorized to furnish cash payments to needy patients in hospitals operated by or under contract (relating to the care of needy patients) with the District of …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to contract with hospitals and other institutions for both the care of indigent or medically indigent patients in hospitals and the care and maintenance of persons for whom the District of Columbia is responsible. The Mayor may …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia, to provide for the payment of stipends to patients and residents employed in institutions of or under programs sponsored by the government of the Di…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to furnish, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Council of the District of Columbia, subsistence, living quarters, and laundry in lieu of salary to persons authorized by the Mayo…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is required to visit and investigate the management of all institutions of charity within the District which may be appropriated for out of the District revenues, in whole or in part, and shall require an itemized report of receipts and expen…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to visit, investigate the management of, and have a report of the receipts and expenditures of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, the Children’s Hospital, Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, National Association for Col…

All sums of money appropriated and expended in aid of the purchase of real estate for charitable or reformatory institutions in the District of Columbia, or for buildings or for permanent improvements to buildings thereon, shall (subject to any trust deed, mortgage, or other secu…

In all cases where Members of Congress or Senators are appointed to represent Congress on any board of trustees or board of directors of any corporation or institution to which Congress makes any appropriation, the term of said Members or Senators, as such trustee or director, sh…

The compensation of the physicians to the poor shall not exceed $40 per month each.

No member or members of any board or boards of trustees or directors of any charitable institution, organization or corporation in the District of Columbia, which is supported in whole or in part by appropriations made by Congress, shall engage in traffic with said institution, o…

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the government of the United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institutio…

The Mayor is authorized, under such regulations as the Council of the District of Columbia may prescribe, to sell the surplus products of the Home for the Aged and Infirm. All moneys derived from such sales shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the…

Pay patients may be admitted to the Home for the Aged and Infirm for care and treatment at such rates and under such regulations as may be established by the Council of the District of Columbia, insofar as such admissions will not interfere with admission of indigent patients; pr…

(a) A fee, based on rates to be established by the Mayor, shall be charged to each person who is not indigent for all clinical services provided at District of Columbia health clinics. The Mayor’s authority to set such fees at D.C. General Hospital and for those services provided…

(a) There is established a Task Force on Asbestos Abatement (“Task Force”). (b) The Task Force shall consist of 9 members appointed as follows: (1) Two members shall be appointed by the Mayor to represent the interests of the District of Columbia government; (2) Two members shall…

The Mayor is authorized to issue rules and regulations, in accordance with recommendations of the Task Force, to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

There may be appropriated out of revenues available to the District sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

Subject to the provisions of § 44-752 [repealed], the Administrator of General Services and the Commissioner of the District of Columbia are directed to convey, without monetary consideration, to the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, Washington, District of Columbi…

The provisions of the paragraph following the appropriation for the Washington Hospital for Foundlings in § 44-711, creating a lien in favor of the United States with respect to the appropriations referred to therein, shall also apply to the appropriations in the aggregate amount…

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Group practice” means a collection of health professionals that provides health-care services. (2) “Health-care facility or agency” means a facility, agency, or other organizational entity as defined in § 44-501, or the Fire and Em…

No person, health-care facility or agency, health professional association, or group practice providing any report, note, record, or other data or information, including advice, opinion, or testimony, to a peer review body shall be liable to any other person for damages or equita…

No peer review body or member thereof, or person acting as its staff, or who participates with or assists such a body or member, operating in the District of Columbia shall be liable to any person for damages or equitable relief by reason of conducting or taking peer review if th…

Any publication by any medical utilization review committee, peer review committee, medical staff committee or tissue review committee shall keep confidential the identity of any patient whose condition, care or treatment was a part thereof.

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section: (1) The files, records, findings, opinions, recommendations, evaluations, and reports of a peer review body, information provided to or obtained by a peer review body, the identity of persons providing information to a peer review…

(a) The Congress makes the following findings: (1) Governmentally administered mental health services in the District of Columbia are currently provided through 2 separate public entities, the federally administered Saint Elizabeths Hospital and the Mental Health Services Adminis…

For the purpose of this subchapter: (1) The term “Hospital” means the institution in the District of Columbia known as Saint Elizabeths Hospital operated on November 8, 1984, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (2) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and…

(a)(1) Subject to subsection (g) of this section and § 44-908(b)(1), effective October 1, 1987, the District shall be responsible for the provision of mental health services to residents of the District. (2) Not later than October 1, 1993, the Mayor shall complete the implementat…