Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, and some printed material relating to the first State Hospital Code, promulgated by the Department of Health in 1969, and revisions of the code since that time. The code consolidated, revised, and expanded existing rules and regulations concerning hospital construction, inspection, certification, and reporting systems. The series consists of several folders of general correspondence and memorandums about the code as well as folders for each section and sub-section of the code.

The resulting letters and memorandums include requests to simplify the regulations, and to make the regulations be more detailed and specific to cover all possible contingencies. Subsections, which contain particularly extensive materials, include the following: 700.2, Qualifications for Hospital Administrators; 706, Therapeutic Services; 720.3, Patients' Bill of Rights; 720.1-2, Hospital Organization and Administration; 720.14, Anesthesia Department; 720.20, Medical Record Department; and 721.1, Medical Staff.

The folders for each subsection contain copies of the relevant portions of the code.