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There shall be admitted to the institutions defined in Section 111 the following:
(1) An indigent sick person or a dependent poor person of the City and County of San Francisco who possesses the required residence qualifications, upon application and after investigation and approval by the Director of Public Health.
(2) A narcotic addict or habitual inebriate temporarily in custody.
(3) A physically defective and physically handicapped person under the age of 21 years when the parents or guardian of such person are not financially able to secure proper care or treatment and when such person's admission and treatment has been duly authorized in the manner provided by law.
(4) A prisoner confined to the City and County Jail who requires medical or surgical treatment necessitating hospitalization where such treatment cannot be furnished or supplied at such jail when any court of the City and County shall have ordered the removal of such prisoner to the San Francisco General Hospital.
(5) A person in need of immediate hospitalization on account of accident or sudden sickness or injury or mental disorder or by reason of sickness or injury caused by or arising in a public emergency or calamity or disaster.
(6) A person who has or who is suspected of having any communicable disease, or a person who is or who is suspected of being a carrier or other potential source of infectious disease.
(7) A person to be isolated in the San Francisco General Hospital by order of the Health Officer because he has or is suspected of having a communicable or infectious disease or because he is or is suspected of being a carrier of such a disease.
(8) An expectant mother who is unable to pay for her necessary care.
(9) An indigent sick person or dependent poor person from another county whose care is reimbursable by the county of residence, as provided in Section 1475 of the Health and Safety Code of the State.
(10) A City and County employee who is judged by the Retirement Board to have suffered an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment by the City and County, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure and relieve the effects of such injury.
(11) Members of the San Francisco Disaster Corps who are determined under the provisions of the State Labor Code to have suffered an injury arising out of and in the course of performance of duties as members of the San Francisco Disaster Corps, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure and relieve the effects of such injury.
(12) Any authorized volunteer or trainee assigned by the Director of Public Health, or Administrator of an institution and (a) assisting in the care and treatment of patients in any of the said institutions, or (b) assisting under supervision in any Bureau, Division, or Service of the Department of Public Health, who is judged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually serving as such volunteer in any of such services, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of such injury.
(13) Any juvenile committed to Log Cabin Ranch School or in custody in the Youth Guidance Center who requires medical or surgical treatment which cannot be furnished in such facility and who is adjudged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually performing duties assigned by the Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of such injury.
(14) Any authorized volunteer including student interns assigned by the Chief Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court and rendering volunteer service at the Youth Guidance Center or Log Cabin Ranch School who is adjudged by the Retirement Board to have suffered injury while actually performing volunteer service, when hospitalization is reasonably required to cure or relieve the effect of such injury.
(15) Any juvenile committed to Log Cabin Ranch School or in custody of Youth Guidance Center who requires medical or surgical treatment which cannot be furnished in such facility when the Juvenile Court shall have ordered removal of such juvenile person.
(16) A person sent by an Agency of the United States Government under conditions as may be contracted for between the Director of Public Health and the United States Government.
(17) A person recommended for admission to special investigative units operated solely with funds of State and/or Federal Government, pursuant to agreement therewith, and such persons shall not be subjected to a financial investigation and shall not be required to have residential qualifications.
(18) A person in need of services not readily available elsewhere in the City and County of San Francisco.
(19) Any patient who becomes mentally ill while in the San Francisco General Hospital may be transferred to the Psychiatric In-patient Service, with the approval of the Chief of that Service or his duly authorized representative.
(20) Any person suspected of being mentally ill who is in the City Prison or County Jail. Such person may be examined in those places or in any appropriate facility of the Department upon an order of any judge of the Superior and Municipal Courts for observation, examination or treatment and for return to the Prison or Jail as medically indicated.
(21) Any resident of the City and County of San Francisco suffering from mental illness may be admitted as a voluntary patient to the Psychiatric Service. Financial investigation shall be made under the rules and regulations of the Department of Public Health. Such a patient must be, at the time of making application for admission, in such a state of mind as to render him competent to make such application. Any person so received and detained shall be deemed a voluntary patient. Such patient shall not be detained in said Psychiatric Service for more than seven days after having given notice in writing of his desire to leave to the person in charge, and in no case shall a patient remain for a period longer than 90 days.
(22) Any mentally disturbed person brought into the Psychiatric Service by the police, City ambulance, relatives or friends, transferred from any of the institutions of the City and County may be accepted for temporary hospitalization on the certification by the Chief of Psychiatric Service, or his duly authorized representative, that emergency detention is necessary. The person may be cared for and treated for a period not to exceed 72 hours, excluding Sundays and nonjudicial days at which time such person shall be discharged unless a petition of mental illness is presented to a judge of the Superior Court and the Court issues an order for detention of such person, or unless he requests treatment pursuant to Subsection (21) above.
Provided, nothing in Subsections (1) to (22) inclusive hereof shall be construed as restraining the Director of Public Health from obeying or carrying out or giving effect to any law that may exist or be hereafter passed, relating to the hospitalization of patients in County institutions.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any sick, disabled, or injured person may be admitted to the institutions of the Director of Public Health of the City and County of San Francisco as an in-patient or out-patient. The Director of Public Health shall give preference in the admission of patients in the following order of priority.
1. Sick or injured persons in need of emergency care.
2. Sick, medically indigent residents of the City and County of San Francisco.
3. Sick persons certified by the San Francisco Department of Social Services as eligible for benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14500) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
4. Sick residents of the City and County of San Francisco.
5. The determination of residence under this Article shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 17100 through 17105 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66)
The Director of Public Health each year shall compute the unit cost of maintaining, treating, and caring for each type of patient at the institutions and their out-patient services, the definition or classification of types of patients to be determined by the Director of Public Health. The method of said computation of unit cost with respect to each type of patient cared for in each institution shall be as approved by the Controller of the City and County of San Francisco. The unit cost so determined shall be approved by the Chief Administrative Officer and the Board of Supervisors.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66; repealed by Ord. 106-03, File No. 030624, App. 5/23/2003)
All persons admitted or committed to the Hassler Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital, or San Francisco General Hospital of the City and County of San Francisco, or who receive prehospital emergency medical services from the San Francisco Fire Department, except under provisions of Subsections (10) to (14) inclusive and (17) of Section 115 hereof, or persons who are recipients of public assistance, shall be investigated by the Director of Public Health or the San Francisco Fire Department for those who receive prehospital emergency medical services, who shall determine the financial ability of such persons to pay, in whole or in part, either directly or through relatives legally obligated to pay in whole or in part for the institutional or prehospital emergency medical service rendered.
The spouse and every relative who may be legally obligated to support an applicant or recipient of indigent aid shall furnish, within 10 days of request by the Director of Public Health and/or the San Francisco Fire Department on forms provided by the Department, information necessary to the determination of the liability of said spouse and relative, or either of them to support said applicant or recipient of aid.
Provided, however, that whenever any person admitted to the Hassler Hospital or Laguna Honda Hospital receives a total monthly income in an amount less than the actual cost of his care and from which income no personal allowance is made as a condition or term thereof, the Director of Public Health shall permit such person to retain from his said total income each month a reasonable amount to be used for his personal and incidental needs. If the source of monthly income is aid to needy disabled or old age aid or blind aid, as provided in the Welfare and Institutions Code, the amount to be retained for personal and incidental needs shall be the same as allowed by the regulations of the State of California Social Welfare Department for such personal and incidental needs.
Any person admitted to any institution who shall own a life insurance policy or policies having an actual cash surrender value of $500 or more may be required by said Director of Public Health to assign by proper written instruments said policy or policies to the City and County of San Francisco.
No provisions of this code shall constitute a waiver of the right of the City and County of San Francisco to recover the full cost of care from any person or persons able to pay therefor or from the estates of such person, where such ability is subsequently shown.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66; amended by Ord. 106-03, File No. 030624, App. 5/23/2003)
The Director of Public Health shall bill every person legally obligated to pay for institutional service rendered, and the San Francisco Fire Department shall bill every person legally obligated to pay for prehospital emergency medical services provided by Fire Department personnel, on the basis of the rates to be established as provided in Section 128 and 128.1 hereof, and to the extent of his ability to pay, in whole or in part, either directly or through relatives legally obligated to pay in whole or in part, as determined under Sections 116 to 122, inclusive, hereof.
Billing to patients at the Institutions may consist of a direct charge against the patient's Home Trust Fund Account or Patient's Account in the amount established by his ability to pay as provided in Section 119.
Such billing shall include costs and fees application under the provisions of Section 5201 of the Welfare and Institutions Code of the State of California relative to proceedings and medical examiners' fees for the mentally ill.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66; amended by Ord. 106-03, File No. 030624, App. 5/23/2003)
(a) The San Francisco Fire Department shall waive its fee for Emergency Medical Services if the patient and/or any other person legally obligated to pay provides the Department with reliable information that:
1. The patient and/or any other persons who are legally obligated to pay have insufficient annual income to pay the bill without undue hardship. The Fire Department shall define "insufficient income" but may not define it at a rate less than 300% of the Federal Poverty Level as set forth in the Federal Register; and
2. The patient is not covered by an insurance that would pay for the services and cannot obtain MediCal or MediCare.
(b) The Fire Department has the sole authority to determine whether the information provided supports a waiver of the fee.
(Added by Ord. 185-05, File No. 050993, App. 7/29/2005)
The care of all persons admitted to the several institutions enumerated herein under the provisions of Section 115(9) hereof, shall be billed under provisions of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, Section 1475, unless a reciprocal agreement between the County of Residence and City and County of San Francisco is in existence pursuant to Section 1475 of the State Health and Safety Code.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66)
The care of all persons admitted to the several institutions enumerated herein under the provisions of Subsections (10) to (14), inclusive of Section 115, hereof, shall be billed to the City and County of San Francisco Employees' Retirement System.
(Added by Ord. 75-66, App. 4/11/66)
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