A. The State Board of Health, upon recommendation of the State Commissioner of Health and with the advice of the Oklahoma Hospital Advisory Council hereinafter provided for, shall promulgate rules and standards for the construction and operation of hospitals, for which licenses are required by the terms of this article, to provide for the proper care of patients. The promulgation of rules shall be subject to and be governed by the provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act.

B. Every hospital shall be periodically inspected by an authorized representative of the Commissioner. Reports of such inspections shall be on forms prescribed by the Commissioner, who shall, after receipt of such reports, take such action as deemed necessary by the Commission to have corrected any deficiencies or violations of the rules and standards of the Board shown in such reports.

C. Hospitals licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article shall not be exempt from being inspected or licensed under laws relating to hotels, restaurants, lodging houses, boarding houses and places of refreshment.

D. 1. Every hospital that offers or provides inpatient psychiatric or chemical dependency treatment services to persons eighteen (18) years of age or younger shall offer, provide or otherwise make available community-based programs and services and may make such programs and services available directly, through contract, or other appropriate means as determined by the State Department of Health.

2. For the purposes of this subsection the term "community-based services" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined by Section 1-1-105 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 7, § 705, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 345, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Laws 1999, c. 93, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2009, c. 234, § 151, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009.