SB574 Alabama 2012 Session

This bill would provide for the creation of a health care authority in a Class 1 municipality for the purpose of operating a health care facility and providing health care; provide for the membership, powers, and duties of the health care authority; authorize the authority to purchase any general-care hospital owned by the county where the authority is located, including the real property and any other assets of the hospital; authorize the health care authority to sell or lease the parking deck of the general-care hospital; authorize the authority to construct new health care facilities and other facilities related thereto; and require the authority take one of the following actions: (1) Convert the general-care hospital and/or to construct new facilities to operate an outpatient clinic; (2) Continue to operate the hospital as a 50 to 150 bed acute care hospital; or (3) Enter into a management affiliation for the operation of the general-care hospital with the goal to reduce the size, scope, and operation of the hospital

Relating to any Class 1 municipality; to provide for the creation of a health care authority in a Class municipality for the purpose of operating a health care facility and providing health care; to provide for the membership, powers, and duties of the health care authority; to authorize the authority to purchase any general-care hospital owned by the county where the authority is located, including the real property and any other assets of the hospital; to authorize the health care authority to sell or lease the parking deck of the general-care hospital; to authorize the authority to construct new health care facilities and other facilities related thereto; and to require the authority take one of the following actions: (1) To convert the general-care hospital and/or to construct new facilities to operate an outpatient clinic; (2) to continue to operate the hospital as a 50 to 150 bed acute care hospital; or (3) to enter into a management affiliation for the operation of the general-care hospital with the goal to reduce the size, scope, and operation of the hospital.