44:5-12 - Distribution of appropriation among nonprofit hospitals or clinics in county - New Jersey Statutes

44:5-12.  Distribution of appropriation among nonprofit hospitals or clinics  in county
    Money appropriated by a governing body and distributed and paid to any hospital by virtue of section 44:5-11 of this Title, shall, if there is more than one such hospital, be distributed among and paid to them upon the basis of  the free ward day's treatment furnished by each of them for the benefit, comfort and maintenance of such patients, inmates therein, or in the case of clinics, by the number of individual treatments of patients, as are residents of the county at the time of being sent to that hospital, and not otherwise.

     "Free ward day's treatment,"  as used in this section, means not less than  24 hours' medical and nursing attention of a hospital patient who occupies a  listed hospital bed in the public ward for at least 24 hours continuously and  for which nothing is paid.  Free ward day's treatment shall not include  treatment given to a person who would not commonly be admitted to or maintained  in the public or contagious wards of general hospitals.

     Amended by L.1969, c. 188, s. 2, eff. Nov. 7, 1969;  L.1979, c. 14, s. 2, eff.  Feb. 8, 1979.