§ 19-342. Hospitals

   (a) Patient's bill of rights. -- Each administrator of a hospital is responsible for making available to each patient in the hospital a copy of the patient's bill of rights that the hospital adopts under the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals' guidelines.

(b) Patient's bill of rights -- Statement. -- The patient's bill of rights shall include a statement that a patient has a right to expect and receive appropriate assessment, management, and treatment of pain as an integral component of the patient's care.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 565F; 1982, ch. 21, § 2; 2002, ch. 368, § 1.