Massachusetts Statutes

Section 62H. A contract for the care and treatment of children coming within the provisions of section sixty-two A, entered into by the commission on children's health camps of a city or town which accepts or has accepted sections sixty-two A to sixty-two G, inclusive, or by a co…

Section 62I. The department shall have general supervision of the Massachusetts hospital school and hospital for state minor wards.

Section 62J. The Massachusetts hospital school shall be maintained primarily for the education and care of crippled and deformed children of the commonwealth. When there is no child of the commonwealth on the entrance waiting list, crippled children from outside the commonwealth …

Section 62K. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land, bequest of personal property or money or other funds, whet…

Section 62L. The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the school, and may incur all expenses necessary for the maintenance thereof.

Section 62M. The trustees may, upon application of any child entitled to receive the benefit of said school, or upon such application by a parent, guardian or person having the legal custody of the child, or by any state or municipal department, board or officer having such custo…

Section 62N. There shall be a thorough inspection of the school by two of the trustees thereof monthly, and by a majority of them quarterly, and by all of them semi-annually, and after each inspection a written report of the state of the institution shall be drawn up. The treasur…

Section 62O. The accounts and books of the treasurer shall at all times be open to the inspection of the trustees.

Section 62P. The trustees of the Massachusetts hospital school, subject to supervision by the department, may construct from time to time, as appropriations are made by the general court, and thereafter may maintain, suitable buildings for the hospital care and treatment of such …

Section 62Q. The said trustees shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties in the management and control of the said hospital for state wards as are vested in and required of them in their administration and control of the hospital school under sections sixty-two…

Section 62R. Any land acquired or buildings erected for the Massachusetts hospital school or the hospital for state minor wards, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, and also any farm product raised at the said hospital school, or at the said hospital, may, as the trustees …

Section 62S. No state minor wards shall be assigned to the said hospital until the commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council, finds that sufficient new building accommodations have been constructed to provide for the number thus to be assigned.

Section 63. The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital and shall see that the affairs of such hospitals are conducted according to law, and to the by-laws and regulations esta…

Section 63A. Subject to such rules and regulations as the department may provide, the superintendent of any hospital administered by the department shall be authorized to admit to any such hospital any person, including any person who is mentally ill, or suffering from an intelle…

Section 63B. The department of public health shall bill the Medicare program established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for all patients cared for in hospitals operated by the department who have received or are eligible to receive a Medicare health insurance number. T…

Section 64. The commissioner shall annually cause to be made an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand and the amount and value thereof at the end of the fiscal year at each hospital under the department; shall make a full and detailed annual report of the condition…

Section 64A. The department, subject to the provisions of sections sixty-four B to sixty-four M, inclusive, shall have general supervision of the Cushing Hospital.

Section 64B. The Cushing Hospital shall be maintained in the town of Framingham as a chronic care hospital, primarily to provide a comprehensive program of health care services to aging citizens. Subject to the provisions of section twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, such…

Section 64C. There shall be a board of trustees of the Cushing Hospital which shall consist of twelve members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a term of six years and two members shall be appointed each January, to take office on the first Wednesday of the follo…

Section 64D. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property …

Section 64E. The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the hospital, and may incur all expenses necessary for the maintenance thereof. The trustees shall deposit all monies received in payment or reimbursement for patient servi…

Section 64F. The trustees shall annually prepare a projected revenue and disbursement schedule of the general trust fund. Such schedule shall be filed with the commissioner, the secretary of the executive office of human services, the commissioner of administration, and the house…

Section 64G. The trustees may from time to time establish other trust funds. In the use, management, and administration of gifts or other monies held in trust, the trustees or their agents shall in their discretion so act as most effectively to aid the beneficiaries in accordance…

Section 64H. The trustees of the hospital may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the management, control and administration of inpatient fees, and for regulating or limiting the method and amounts which may be disbursed from the trust funds, particularly the ge…

Section 64I. All members of the professional and non-professional staff of the hospital shall continue to be employees of the commonwealth, irrespective of the source of funds from which their salaries are paid. They shall have the same privileges and benefits of other employees …

Section 64J. The Trustees may, except as to the duties imposed on powers granted under section sixty-four H, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the superintendent of the hospital or any other officer of the hospital whenever in their judgment such delegation may b…

Section 64K. (a) The superintendent of the hospital may deposit in any bank organized and existing under the law of the commonwealth funds belonging to persons who are patients or residents at such facility, funds deposited by relatives or friends of such persons, and other funds…

Section 64L. The board of trustees of the hospital, with the approval of the commissioner, shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital. The person appointed as superintendent shall have a doctoral degree or a master's degree from an acc…

Section 64M. There shall be a center on the care of the aging, research, and education, hereinafter referred to as the care center. The care center shall provide research into long term care of the aging, develop innovative models of delivery of such care, and provide technical a…

Section 65A. The department may admit to the Lakeville hospital persons suffering from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, persons crippled by poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), arthritis or muscular dystrophy and other similar diseases, aging persons, crippled children as defined in…

Section 65C. The superintendent of any institution under the supervision and control of the department may deposit in any bank or trust company within the commonwealth or on paid-up shares and accounts of and in co-operative banks, funds belonging to individual patients and funds…

Section 65D. So much of any funds known as ''Patients' Funds'' as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of any such institution, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than seven years, shall be paid by the superintendent thereof t…

Section 67. The department may take and hold in trust gifts or bequests for its own use or for the use of any hospital under its charge and shall succeed to and retain the rights, powers and duties formerly held or acquired by the trustees of hospitals for consumptives.

Section 67A. (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined by the department, each hospital or in the case of a birth outside of a hospital, the person responsible for delivery shall file a written n…

Section 67C. (a) The department of public health shall provide programs for the prevention, care, and follow-up of premature and other designated high risk infants and establish criteria for services to be provided. The expenses for the transportation of said infants to hospitals…

Section 67E. (a) Within 30 days after the diagnosis in the commonwealth of a congenital anomaly, birth defect or birth injury which may lead to an incapacity or disability, the physician making the diagnosis shall report the anomaly, defect or injury to the department on a form t…

Section 67F. For the purposes of this section, the words ''newborn infant'' shall mean an infant under three months of age, and the words ''hearing screening test'' shall mean a test to detect hearing thresholds of 30 decibels or greater in either ear in the speech frequency rang…

Section 67G. Every person in control of a child who has reached age four shall cause such child to be given a complete pure tone test using conventional audiometric tests at such public schools and by such pediatric audiologists or school testers as are approved and designated by…

Section 67H. The literature required by section sixty-seven F shall describe the following high risk conditions:—(1) Before birth (a) Family history of deafness as indicated by one or more deaf or hard of hearing children in family; (b) Maternal thyroid abnormality; (c) Maternal …

Section 69E. The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Lemuel Shattuck hospital, the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, the Pondville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital. Subject to appropriation and subject to the provisions of sectio…

Section 69F. Notice of admission of a needy person shall be given within ten days to the department of transitional assistance.

Section 69G. In the case of a needy person not already in receipt of public assistance, the notice of admission shall constitute an application on behalf of the patient. Upon receipt of such application, the department of transitional assistance shall determine his eligibility fo…

Section 69H. The charges for the support of persons receiving care in said hospitals shall be at the rate determined by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive office.

Section 69I. A person, his executor, or administrator, shall be liable in contract for such charges except that persons in receipt of public assistance shall have their responsibility for payment of such charges fixed in accordance with the provisions of the particular category o…

Section 69J. The department is authorized to make contracts with private persons or corporations for the operation of concessions in institutions under its charge.

Section 69K. The commissioner shall identify patients at institutions subject to the control of the department who are eligible for federal veterans' benefits and shall take such steps necessary to assist said patients in collecting said benefits. Said commissioner shall promulga…