Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 22-21-310 (2026)
Short Title.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
This article shall be known and may be cited as “The Health Care Authorities Act of 1982.”
(Acts 1982, No. 82-418, p. 629, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12
cases, 1986–2013 · leading case: Health Care Auth. for Baptist Health v. Davis, 158 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013).
Health Care Auth. for Baptist Health v. Davis, 158 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013). “Code 1975, which it argued was applicable to the Authority pursuant to § 22-21-318(a)(2) of the Health Care Authorities Act of 1982, Ala.Code 1975, § 22-21-310 et seq. (“the HCA Act”).”
Griffith v. Health Care Auth. of City of Huntsville, 705 F. Supp. 1489 (N.D. Ala. 1989). “629 enacted at the 1982 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama, § 22-21-310, et seq., Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended [“The Health Care Authorities Act of 1982”], by Certificate of Reincorporation filed in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Madison County, Alabama on…”
James D. Askew, Ginger Buck, Phillip Mahan v. Dch Reg'l Health Care Auth., West Alabama Gen. Hosp., Inc., 995 F.2d 1033 (11th Cir. 1993). “In enacting the statute, the legislature aimed to address the needs of indigent and reduced-care patients by providing for new and different financing mechanisms for publicly-owned hospitals and other health care facilities.”
Marshall v. Planz, 13 F. Supp. 2d 1231 (M.D. Ala. 1998). “In 1988, SAMC had been reincorporated under the Alabama Health Care Authorities Act of 1982, 1975 Ala.Code §§ 22-21-310 through 22-21-344 (Michie 1997).”
Tennessee Valley Printing Co. v. Health Care Auth. of Lauderdale Cnty., 61 So. 3d 1027 (Ala. 2010). “Facts and Procedural History The Health Care Authority was organized pursuant to the Health Care Authorities Act of 1982 (“the HCA”), codified at § 22-21-310 et seq., Ala.Code 1975. It is a public corporation that owns the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence and the…”
Chandler v. Hosp. Auth. of Huntsville, 500 So. 2d 1012 (Ala. 1986). “Article 11 ("Health Care Authorities," § 22-21-310, et seq.) allows a health care authority "[t]o sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto and ex contractu, subject, however, to…”
Crosby v. Hosp. Auth. of Valdosta, 873 F. Supp. 1568 (M.D. Ga. 1995). “A subsidiary dispute in Askew , not present in this case, was whether Alabama’s Health Care Authorities Act of 1982, Ala.Code § 22-21-310 et seq., authorized the conduct in question.”
Hosp. Sys., Inc. v. Hill Rom, Inc., 545 So. 2d 1324 (Ala. 1989). “) The Hospital, however, is a “health care authority,” incorporated pursuant to the provisions of Code 1975, § 22-21-310 et seq. It is “a separate entity from the state and from any local political subdivision, including a city or county within which it is organized” (Opinion of…”
Tarabishi v. McAlester Reg'l Hosp., 951 F.2d 1558 (10th Cir. 1991). “The health care authority was established pursuant to the Health Care Authorities Act of 1982, Ala.Code §§ 22-21-310, etseq., which provided, inter alia, that such authorities "act[ ] as an agency or instrumentality of its authorizing subdivisions and as a political subdivision…”
Gaines v. Huntsville-Madison Cnty. Airport Auth., 581 So. 2d 444 (Ala. 1991). “Code 1975, §§ 22-21-50 through -191, §§ 22-21-310 through -344), only Article 5 prescribes immunity from tort actions.”
Todoroy v. DCH Healthcare Auth., 921 F.2d 1438 (11th Cir. 1991). “42-418 (codified as amended at Ala.Code §§ 22-21-310 to -344 (1990)), which includes, in pertinent part: § 22-21-318.”
Turner v. Von Braun Civic Ctr., 716 So. 2d 1186 (Ala. 1998). “, municipal hospital building authorities; § 22-21-170, county and municipal hospital authorities; § 22-21-310 et seq., health care authorities; § 11-22-1, public parks and recreation boards; and § 11-50-230 et seq.”
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