2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 7 - Regulation and Construction of Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities (Arts. 1 — 16)
Article 1 - Regulation of Hospitals and Related Institutions (§§ 31-7-1 — 31-7-23.1)
Annotations
Notes
Editor’s notes.Ga. L. 2001, p. 1172, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “No hospital shall release for public use any autopsy photographs or images without the written permission of the family.”
Opinion Notes
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Department cannot regulate abortion facilities not within definition of institution. —Law concerning regulation of hospitals and related institutions cannot be utilized by Department of Human Resources (now the Department of Community Health for these purposes) to extend regulation to abortions performed in facilities other than those embraced by the term institution. 1973 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 73-24.
Casualty insurance carried by regulated institutions not subject to department’s regulation. —Since the requirement of carrying adequate casualty insurance is a matter which does not pertain to protection of health and lives of patients in institutions nor to kind and quality of building, equipment, facilities and institutional services that institutions shall have and use in order to properly care for patients, the Department of Human Resources (now the Department of Community Health for these purposes) cannot legally pass a valid rule requiring institutions to carry adequate casualty insurance. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-177.
Research References & Practice Aids
Law reviews.For article, “Hospital Mergers, Market Concentration and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index,” see 33 Emory L. J. 869 (1985).
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Liability of private noncharitable hospital or sanitarium for improper care or treatment of patient, 39 A. L. R. 1431; 124 A. L. R. 186.
Hospital’s liability for care of convalescing patient, 70 A. L. R.2d 377.
Malpractice in diagnosis and treatment of tetanus, 28 A. L. R.3d 1364.
Hospital’s liability for injury or death to patient resulting from or connected with administration of anesthetic, 31 A. L. R.3d 1114.
Hospital’s liability to patient for injury allegedly sustained from absence of particular equipment intended for use in diagnosis or treatment of patient, 50 A. L. R.3d 1141.
Hospital’s liability for patient’s injury or death resulting from escape or attempted escape, 37 A. L. R.4th 200.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 31
O. C. G. A. Title 31, Ch. 7
- § 31-7-1. Definitions
- § 31-7-2. Classification of institutions
- § 31-7-2.1. Rules and regulations; availability of reports of cited deficiencies; disclosure of survey worksheets and documents
- § 31-7-2.2. Emergency actions to protect health and safety of patients and residents
- § 31-7-3. Requirements for permits to operate institutions
- § 31-7-3.1. Emergency room notice of legal rights in emergencies
- § 31-7-3.2. Notice requirements for cited deficiency; use of regulatory violations in civil actions; use of survey results in advertisements
- § 31-7-3.3. Parties excluded from civil actions against nursing and intermediate care homes
- § 31-7-3.4. Liability insurance or self-insurance trust requirement for nursing and intermediate care homes
- § 31-7-3.5. Treatment of minors for gender dysphoria; penalty for violations
- § 31-7-4. Denial or revocation of permits
- § 31-7-5. Exemptions from permit requirements; application of this chapter to federally operated institutions
- § 31-7-6. Provision of data for research purposes by organizations rendering patient care; liability of providers of data; use of data; confidentiality
- § 31-7-7. Refusal or revocation by public hospital of staff privileges
- § 31-7-7.1. Denial of staff privileges based upon license, board certification, or membership in professional association
- § 31-7-8. Reports of disciplinary actions against certain medical professions
- § 31-7-9. Reports by physicians and other personnel of nonaccidental injuries to patients; immunity from liability
- § 31-7-10. Approval of hospitals to render services under a group nonprofit hospital insurance plan
- § 31-7-11. Written summary of hospital service charge rates
- § 31-7-12. [Effective July 1, 2026] Personal care homes; licensing and registration; requirements; exemptions; enforcement
- § 31-7-12.1. Owning or operating an unlicensed personal care home; enforcement; penalty
- § 31-7-12.2. [Effective July 1, 2026] Assisted living communities; licensing and regulation; medication aides; certification; requirements
- § 31-7-12.3. Rules, regulations, and waivers for personal care homes and assisted living communities
- § 31-7-12.4. Memory care centers; certification and regulation; requirements
- § 31-7-12.5. Notification and other requirements for COVID-19 infections in personal care homes
- § 31-7-12.6. [Reserved] SARS CoV-2 testing for residents and staff in long-term care facilities
- § 31-7-12.7. Employment of certified medication aids in nursing homes
- § 31-7-12.8. Certification as nurse aide; employer sponsored training and competency examination programs; provisional practice by military medical personnel
- § 31-7-13. Transfer of property upon death of patient
- § 31-7-14. Blood supplies; blood donor storage programs
- § 31-7-15. Review of professional practices by a peer review committee
- § 31-7-16. Determination or pronouncement of death of nursing home patients
- § 31-7-17. Licensure and regulation of hospitals and related institutions transferred to Department of Community Health
- § 31-7-18. Offer of vaccinations to discharged patients and employees of hospitals
- § 31-7-19. Offer of vaccinations for employees of nursing homes
- § 31-7-20. TRICARE application and certification requirements
- § 31-7-21. Provision of influenza education information to assisted living community residents
- § 31-7-22. Required disclosures on hospital website; penalty
- § 31-7-23. Surgical smoke
- § 31-7-23.1. Drop off of homeless patients by hospitals
