§ 17:1519.3 — Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans; health care

Louisiana § 17:1519.3

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 17: Credit Union Law

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§1519.3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans; health care
services division organization
A. The division and its component hospitals shall be under the immediate direction
and control of the LSU HSC–NO subject to the overall direction, supervision, and
management of the board.
B. No hospital nor any emergency room may be closed without legislative approval.
Such approval may be granted by the legislature either by concurrent resolution or by
appropriate action in the General Appropriation Act.
C. The board or the division shall not authorize a hospital to reduce healthcare
services provided by any one of the hospitals of the health care services division in any
manner which causes expenditures of any hospital to be reduced on an annualized basis by
greater than thirty-five percent of the previous fiscal year actual spending level. If any
services are reduced by greater than fifteen percent in any one year, legislative approval shall
be obtained before reducing such services greater than fifteen percent in any year for the next
three years. Funding may be provided by any local, regional, state, federal, or private sources
to augment existing funding or to restore reduced funding.
D. In no event shall emergency medical treatment be denied to anyone in the nearest
general hospital owned or operated by the board.
E. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to
the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports that are prepared
quarterly and submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. Such reports shall
be submitted at the same time that they are made available to the Joint Legislative Committee
on the Budget.
F. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to
the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports that are furnished
to the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical
College. Such report shall be submitted at the same time that they are made available to the
Board of Supervisors. Such reports shall include but not be limited to a fiscal year overview
and any planned reductions at division hospitals.
G. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to
the Senate and House committees on health and welfare quarterly reports, individually by
hospital, on the length of time that patients wait for services provided by the division
hospitals.

Legislative History

Acts 1997, No. 3, §1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1999, No. 141, §1, eff. June 9, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 802, §1, eff. July 2, 1999; Acts 2001, No. 1024, §1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 906, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 629, §1; Acts 2019, No. 21, §1.