O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-3-520 (2019)

Construction and operation authorized; separate appropriations

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The board of regents in the exercise of its public and governmental functions shall have power and is authorized to lease, buy, build, construct, establish, contract for the use of, maintain, and operate a general nonprofit teaching hospital at Augusta, Georgia, known as the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital, to be operated in conjunction with the Georgia Health Sciences University for the benefit of indigent, near indigent, and paying patients, under such rules and regulations as to administration, maintenance, charges for services, and general operations as may be prescribed by the board not in conflict with general laws of this state pertaining to fiscal operations of departments and agencies of the state. The General Assembly may, as a part of the general appropriations Act, make specific appropriations for the operation and maintenance of the hospital and any annex or addition thereto independent of and in addition to any appropriation made for the university system or any of its divisions.

History

(Ga. L. 1945, p. 453, § 1; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 117, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 20/HB 142.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Construction and regulation of hospitals generally, T. 31, C. 7.

Law reviews. - For article, ‘‘Privati-

zation of Rural Public Hospitals: Implications for Access and Indigent Care,’’ see 47 Mercer L. Rev. 991 (1996).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Cook v. Forrester, 323 Ga. App. 631, 746 S.E.2d 624 (2013). OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Hospital does not have the authority to retain mental patients who enter the hospital voluntarily, even though it is

unsafe to release such patients. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 565.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2013–2013 · leading case: Cook v. Forrester, 746 S.E.2d 624 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013).
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Cook v. Forrester, 746 S.E.2d 624 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “is to: (1) educate and train competent health care professionals; (2) provide integrated, comprehensive, and quality health care services; (3) benefit the indigent, near indigent, and paying patients in accordance with OCGA § 20-3-520;[ 4 ] and (4) conduct medical and biomedical…”
Lloyd O. Cook v. John Forrester (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). “is to: (1) educate and train competent health care professionals; (2) provide integrated, comprehensive, and quality health care services; (3) benefit the indigent, near indigent, and paying patients in accordance with OCGA § 20-3-520;4 and (4) conduct medical and biomedical…”
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