The certificate of the custodian of the hospital records provided for in Sections 12-21-5 and 12-21-6 shall show the name of the parties to the case or proceeding and the name of the court to which made, by appropriate caption, and said certificate shall be in form in substance as follows, to-wit:
I, _____, hereby certify and affirm in writing that I am _____ of the _____ Hospital, a hospital organized or operated pursuant to or under the laws of Alabama, located at _____, Alabama, that I am custodian of the hospital records of said hospital and that the within copy of said hospital records are an exact, full, true and correct copy of said hospital records pertaining to _____.
I further certify that I am familiar with and know, and knew when made and charged, the reasonable value and price for the various charges made and shown in said hospital records pertaining to _________ and that said charges are in my judgment just, reasonable and proper and in keeping with those generally charged in the county and community where said hospital is located.
All of which I hereby certify and affirm on this ______ day of __________, 19__.
(Acts 1965, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 77, p. 102, §3.)
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1993–2017 · leading case:
Key v. State, 890 So. 2d 1043 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002).
Key v. State, 890 So. 2d 1043 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002).
“" *1053 Because the record indicates that the hospital records were certified by the custodian of the records, Ernestine Hendrix, in accordance with § 12-21-7, Ala.Code 1975, they were properly admitted into evidence.”
Kirksey v. State, 191 So. 3d 810 (Ala. Crim. App. 2014).
“Copies of these hospital records, when properly certified, may be introduced into evidence without the production of the original and without the custodian of these records being present to lay a predicate.” Charles Gamble &.”
D.E.R. v. State, 254 So. 3d 242 (Ala. Crim. App. 2017).
· cites it 5× “1989), the Supreme Court of Alabama held that medical records attached to an affidavit had not been certified in accordance with § 12-21-7, Ala. Code 1975. The affidavit-submitted by Josie Carter-read, in relevant part: " 'I am familiar with the standards of hospital and nursing…”
Fleming v. State, 625 So. 2d 1195 (Ala. Crim. App. 1993).
“operations, injuries, examinations, tests, transfusions, hospitalization and duration thereof, medication, medicines, supplies, treatment and care and the cost, expenses, fees and charges therefor and thereof, a part of, or shown on or in, said hospital records of any patient in…”
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