ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 491
(By Senators Wooton, Bailey and Sharpe)
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[Introduced March 15, 2001; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article five, chapter
twenty-six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to changing the name
of Pinecrest hospital to Jackie Withrow hospital.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article five, chapter twenty-six of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. JACKIE WITHROW HOSPITAL.
§26-5-1. Continuation; management; superintendent; qualifications
of superintendent; division of fiscal, administrative and
clinical duties; certain persons exempted from qualification
requirements.
(a) The tuberculosis sanitarium heretofore established at
Beckley, for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, shall be continued and shall be known as Pinecrest
the Jackie Withrow hospital, and shall be managed, directed and
controlled as prescribed in article one, chapter twenty-five and in
section eight, article one, chapter sixteen of this code. The
chief executive officer of such the hospital shall be the
superintendent, who shall must be a college graduate and have a
minimum of two years' experience in either hospital administration,
health services administration or business administration with
broad knowledge of accounting, purchasing and personnel practices
as related to the rendition of health and health related services.
(b) A superintendent is the person having the fiscal
responsibility of the hospital and the authority to manage and
administer the financial, business and personnel affairs of the
hospital.
A clinical director is the person having the responsibility
for decisions involving clinical and medical treatment of patients,
and who shall be a duly qualified physician licensed to practice
medicine in the state of West Virginia.
(c) The provisions of this section relating to the
qualification of persons eligible to serve as superintendent shall
not apply to any person serving in the capacity of business manager
on the effective date hereof, and who has served in such that
capacity for at least six consecutive months next preceding such
the effective date.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to rename the Pinecrest
hospital in Beckley, the Jackie Withrow hospital.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)