Title 40.1, Title 40.1 Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals

The department of administration shall furnish the department with proper and adequate office space and equipment.

In tribute to the memory of the late Dr. U. E. Zambarano, former superintendent of the state sanatorium, counselor, administrator, and humanitarian, whose “friendly deportment fostered a spirit of cooperation and unity,” the state sanatorium at Wallum Lake, Rhode Island, shall he…

The hospital land, being a tract of land owned by the state, located in the town of Burrillville, at and adjacent to Wallum Pond, with all the buildings thereon and all the furniture, furnishings, fittings, fixtures, apparatus, farming utensils, and equipment and property of all …

The director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals may appoint all physicians he or she may deem necessary for the hospital, and all other assistants and employees necessary for the performance of the duties of the department, and for the proper admin…

The charge for the support of the patients of the hospital as are of sufficient ability to pay for same, or have persons or kindred bound by law to maintain them, shall be paid by those patients, persons, or kindred, at a rate to be determined by the director of behavioral health…

The director of the department shall establish, in the director’s discretion, rules for the government of the Eleanor Slater hospital, regulations for the admission of patients, and shall generally be vested with all the powers necessary for the proper carrying on of the work ent…

The director of the department shall establish, in the director’s discretion, rules for the governance of the Rhode Island state psychiatric hospital, regulations for the admission of patients, and shall generally be vested with all the powers necessary for the proper carrying on…

Notwithstanding the provisions of any public or general law or personnel rule or regulation to the contrary, there shall no longer be any requirement or provision that an employee of Zambarano Hospital reside within the state as a condition of continued employment. Any prior vali…

The director of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals shall appoint, or delegate to another employee of the department the authority to appoint, employees, as the director may deem necessary for the proper management of the facilities of either or both t…