Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 17, § 1519.3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans; health care services division organization

A. The division and its component hospitals shall be under the immediate direction and control of the LSU HSC-NO subject to the overall direction, supervision, and management of the board.

B. No hospital nor any emergency room may be closed without legislative approval. Such approval may be granted by the legislature either by concurrent resolution or by appropriate action in the General Appropriation Act.

C. The board or the division shall not authorize a hospital to reduce healthcare services provided by any one of the hospitals of the health care services division in any manner which causes expenditures of any hospital to be reduced on an annualized basis by greater than thirty-five percent of the previous fiscal year actual spending level. If any services are reduced by greater than fifteen percent in any one year, legislative approval shall be obtained before reducing such services greater than fifteen percent in any year for the next three years. Funding may be provided by any local, regional, state, federal, or private sources to augment existing funding or to restore reduced funding.

D. In no event shall emergency medical treatment be denied to anyone in the nearest general hospital owned or operated by the board.

E. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports that are prepared quarterly and submitted to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. Such reports shall be submitted at the same time that they are made available to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

F. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare the same reports that are furnished to the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Such report shall be submitted at the same time that they are made available to the Board of Supervisors. Such reports shall include but not be limited to a fiscal year overview and any planned reductions at division hospitals.

G. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans shall furnish to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare quarterly reports, individually by hospital, on the length of time that patients wait for services provided by the division hospitals.