Designation of
facilities
1(1) The
following places are designated as facilities for the purposes of section 1(d)
of the Act:
(a) Alberta
Hospital Edmonton;
(b) Centennial
Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury;
(c) Calgary
Health Region Peter Lougheed Centre;
(d) Calgary
Health Region Foothills Medical Centre;
(e) Misericordia
Community Hospital;
(f) Royal
Alexandra Hospital;
(g) University
of Alberta Hospital;
(h) Grey
Nuns Community Hospital;
(i) Chinook
Regional Hospital;
(j) Medicine
Hat Regional Hospital;
(k) Northern
Lights Regional Health Centre;
(l) Queen
Elizabeth II Hospital;
(m) Calgary
Health Region Rockyview General Hospital;
(n) Claresholm
Centre for Mental Health and Addictions;
(o) Red
Deer Regional Hospital Centre;
(p) Southern
Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.
(2) The
following places are designated as facilities for the purposes of section 13 of
the Act:
(a) repealed
AR 78/2005 s3;
(b) Northern
Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre of the Alberta Hospital Edmonton;
(c) Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.
AR 19/2004
s1;78/2005;228/2006;208/2007
Liability for costs
2(1) Subject to section 6 of the Hospitalization
Benefits Regulation (AR 244/90) and to subsection (2), if an
individual is conveyed to a facility under section 4, 10, 12 or 24 of the Act
and detained there,
(a) the
board of that facility shall pay the cost of transportation by ambulance, air
ambulance, charter aircraft or other commercial vehicle to convey that
individual to the facility, and
(b) the
board of the facility from which that individual is subsequently discharged
shall pay the cost of transportation to convey the individual to the place
where the individual was apprehended or to the individual’s home, whichever
that board decides.
(2) If the costs referred to in subsection
(1) are covered by an agreement under section 49(c) of the Act or an agreement
under any other enactment, the person who is responsible for those costs under
that agreement is liable for the costs referred to in subsection (1).
(3) A
formal patient or any other individual detained under the Act is not liable for
any costs, charges or expenses with respect to that individual’s conveyance,
observation, examination, assessment, admission, treatment or accommodation
during the period of the detention, except that section 5(1)(c) and (2) of the Hospitalization
Benefits Regulation (AR 244/90) apply.
(4) For
the purposes of this Regulation, section 30 of the Hospitals Act and the
Hospitalization Benefits Regulation (AR 244/90) are to be
considered as applying to patients, other than formal patients and patients who
are detained in a facility under the Act.
(5) For
the purposes of this section, admission to a facility is considered to be
admission to a general hospital as defined in the Hospitals Act.
Diagnostic and
treatment centres
3 Subject to any agreement under section
49(c) of the Act, the operator of the Raymond Care Centre, a diagnostic and
treatment centre referred to in section 49(b) of the Act, is entitled to
charge,
(a) in
respect of an individual who is entitled under Part 3 of the Hospitals Act
to receive insured services, the standard ward accommodation rate referred to
in section 5(1)(d) of the Hospitalization Benefits Regulation
(AR 244/90), and
(b) in
respect of an individual who is not so entitled, the rates approved by the
Minister under section 9 of that Regulation.
Repeal
4 The Mental Health Regulation
(AR 309/89) is repealed.
Expiry
5 For the purpose of ensuring that this
Regulation is reviewed for ongoing relevancy and necessity, with the option
that it may be repassed in its present or an amended form following a review,
this Regulation expires on December 29, 2011.
