Section 22-5A-5 Procedures for receiving complaints; informing recipients of ombudsman program.
Section 22-5A-5
Procedures for receiving complaints; informing recipients of ombudsman program.
The State Ombudsman shall establish written procedures for receiving complaints involving long-term residential health care facilities and their employees. The Department of Senior Services shall provide to health care, domiciliary and residential facilities written information on the ombudsman program to be distributed to recipients at the time of admission, or rendering of care and/or treatment at a facility.
(Acts 1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, §5.)