TITLE 17. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 4. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE

PART II. DIVISIONS, BRANCHES AND DEPARTMENTS

SUBPART C-2. LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER--HEALTH CARE SERVICES DIVISION

17:1519.3      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 health care 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 must 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.

Acts 2003, No. 906, s 1, eff. July 1, 2003.