2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients (Arts. 1 — 10)
Annotations
Notes
Editor’s notes.By resolution (Ga. L. 1986, p. 526), the General Assembly requested the Governor to create the Task Force on Funding of Indigent Health Care Programs to review laws and programs regarding indigent health care.
Research References & Practice Aids
Cross references.Unfair or deceptive practices toward the elderly or disabled persons, § 10-1-850 et seq.
Bill of rights for residents of long-term care facilities, § 31-8-100 et seq.
Determination of responsibility of patients, counties, departments, and others to pay costs of treatment for mental illness, mental retardation, alcoholism, §§ 37-3-121, 37-4-81, 37-7-121 and 37-9-1 et seq.
Indigent Care Trust Fund, § 31-8-150 et seq.
Liability of voluntary health care providers and sponsoring organizations, cumulative immunity, application, § 51-1-29.4.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Proof of Facts. —False Imprisonment in Connection with Confinement in Nursing Home or Hospital, 40 POF2d 81.
Discrimination in Provision of Medical Services on Basis of Disability, 49 POF3d 1.
Am. Jur. Trials.Medical and Legal Aspects of Chemical and Physical Restraint in the Nursing Home, 75 Am. Jur. Trials 1.
ALR.Licensing and regulation of nursing or rest homes, 53 A. L. R.4th 689.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 31
- Article 1 - Hospital Care for the Indigent Generally (§§ 31-8-1 — 31-8-11)
- Article 2 - Hospital Care for Nonresident Indigents (§§ 31-8-30 — 31-8-37)
- Article 2A - Hospital Care for Pregnant Women (§§ 31-8-40 — 31-8-46)
- Article 3 - Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program (§§ 31-8-50 — 31-8-63)
- Article 4 - Reporting Abuse or Exploitation of Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities (§§ 31-8-80 — 31-8-88)
- Article 5 - Bill of Rights for Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities (§§ 31-8-100 — 31-8-127)
- Article 5A - Remedies for Residents of Personal Care Homes (§§ 31-8-130 — 31-8-139)
- Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund (§§ 31-8-150 — 31-8-160)
- Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee (§§ 31-8-161 — 31-8-169)
- Article 6B - Quality Assessment Fees on Care Management Organizations (§§ 31-8-170 — 31-8-177)
- Article 6C - Hospital Medicaid Financing Program (§§ 31-8-179 — 31-8-179.6)
- Article 7 - Disclosure of Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease or Alzheimer’s Related Dementia (§§ 31-8-180 — 31-8-184)
- Article 8 - "Health Share" Volunteers in Medicine (§§ 31-8-190 — 31-8-201)
- Article 9 - Federal and State Funded Health Care Financing Programs Overview Committee (§ 31-8-210)
- Article 10 - Drug Repository Program (§§ 31-8-300 — 31-8-307)
