26:2H-12b - Religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed health care facilities - New Jersey Statutes

26:2H-12b  Religious accommodation regarding admission procedures at licensed health care facilities.
1.No patient or family member of a patient shall be required to sign admission papers to a health care facility, as defined in section 2 of the "Health Care Facilities Planning Act," P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-2), during such times as the patient's or family member's religious beliefs prohibit them from signing the papers. 

L.2007,c.216.
 
26:2H-12.1.Health care facility to provide privileges for podiatrists, psychologists
1.  a. Any health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), which provides medical or surgical care, shall provide for the use of the facility by, and appropriate privileges for, duly licensed podiatrists and psychologists.  Use of the facility and privileges of a podiatrist or psychologist shall be subject to nondiscriminatory rules and regulations governing such use or privileges established by the governing body of the facility for persons licensed as physicians and surgeons pursuant to R.S.45:9-6 and dentists pursuant to R.S.45:6-19.

b. Nothing in this act shall be construed to require a hospital to grant admitting privileges to a psychologist or to permit the exercise of those privileges granted by the hospital without appropriate collaboration with the attending physician of the patient who is receiving or will receive care or treatment from the psychologist.

L.1983,c.28,s.1; amended 1995,c.310.
 
26:2H-12.2.Repealed by L.2005,c.83,s.20, amended by L.2005,c.259,s.34 to change "podiatry" to "podiatric medicine."