§ 16-22-3-11 — Permissible personnel programs and policies

Indiana § 16-22-3-11

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 22: COUNTY HOSPITALS
• Ch. 3: Powers of Hospital Governing Boards

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A governing board may do the following:
(1) Adopt an employee benefit program that may include a
vacation policy and employee discounts.
(2) Authorize expenditure of hospital funds for payment of
advertising and placement fees for personnel and physicians.
(3) Expend hospital funds in an amount not to exceed one-half
percent (0.5%) of hospital revenues for the preceding calendar
year for a program that directly contributes to the productivity or
morale of personnel, volunteers, or physicians. However, this
subdivision does not apply to:
(A) an employee benefit program under subdivision (1); or
(B) an employee compensation arrangement, including a
productivity bonus.
(4) Adopt a plan that provides for hospital employee sickness or
accident disability and contract for and purchase insurance plans
from an insurance company licensed to transact business in
Indiana.
(5) Contract for and purchase adequate pension and retirement
plans for hospital personnel from the Indiana public retirement
system or from any company authorized to do such business in
Indiana.
(6) Enter into deferred compensation agreements with employees
and other contractual personnel and fund deferred obligations by
contracting with insurance companies licensed to transact
business in Indiana.
(7) Expend hospital funds to pay dues of the executive director
and department heads for memberships in local, state, or national
hospital or professional associations or organizations that the
board determines are of direct benefit to the hospital.
(8) Establish and operate employee registries for part-time or
temporary hospital employees.
(9) Pay a part or all of the costs of these plans out of hospital
funds.
(10) Expend hospital funds for reasonable expenses incurred by
persons and their spouses who are interviewed for employment or
for medical staff appointment and for reasonable moving
expenses for the persons and their spouses if employed or
appointed to the hospital medical staff.
(11) Expend hospital funds, advance tuition payments, or
establish a tuition refund program for the education or
professional improvement of nurses and other professional or
technical employees of the hospital for inservice training and
attending seminars or other special courses of instruction when
the board determines that the expenditures directly benefit the
hospital.
(12) Conduct business in a state adjacent to Indiana.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-12.1-3-8 part;
16-12.1-3-9; 16-12.1-3-24 part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.56-1995, SEC.7; P.L.35-1997, SEC.6; P.L.35-2012, SEC.100.