Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)

§ 63-3274. Hospitals - Operation, licensing, accreditation, and certification - Teaching and training.

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A. Any hospital or hospitals purchased, leased or constructed by the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority shall be operated as general hospitals and shall be licensed by the State Commissioner of Health, and shall, as far as possible, meet the standards, requirements and essentials of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and the American Osteopathic Association or, alternatively, meet Medicare certification by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Provided, the State Commissioner of Health may waive any such standards, requirements and essentials as the Commissioner deems necessary.
B. Any such hospitals may provide services and receive payments under Titles XVIII and XIX of the federal Social Security Act, and may participate in other federal medical programs.
C. Any such hospitals shall be available as teaching and training hospitals for the colleges of the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, for other health and educational facilities and shall provide indigent patient care.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 287, § 4, emerg. eff. June 7, 2006.

                    
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