Oregon Revised Statutes
The Oregon Health and Science University is designated to administer a program the purpose of which is to enable the state to extend and improve services for locating children with disabilities and for providing medical, surgical, corrective and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization and after care for such children and for ch…
The Oregon Health and Science University may: Make all necessary rules and regulations for administering services to children with disabilities under ORS 444.010 to 444.050. Accept, expend and disburse all federal funds made available to this state for services for children with disabilities and for the administration of services for children with special …
The Oregon Health and Science University shall be responsible for the administration of services for children with special health needs under ORS 444.010 to 444.050 and may establish: Qualifications of medical, nursing and other personnel employed in connection with services to children with disabilities. Standards of medical practice, hospitalization, nur…
There is created in the General Fund of the State Treasury an account to be known as the Services for Children with Special Health Needs Account. All moneys received under ORS 444.020 shall be deposited in the Services for Children with Special Health Needs Account and shall be disbursed in the same manner as the moneys appropriated for carrying out ORS 444…
In carrying out ORS 444.010 to 444.040, no state official, agent or representative shall take charge of any child over the objection of either of the parents of such child, or of the person standing in loco parentis to such child. CARE AND TREATMENT FOR INDIGENT CHILDREN
Any judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 may on the motion of the judge, or shall, on complaint filed by any probation officer, school teacher or school officer, relief officer or physician authorized to practice in this state, alleging that the child named therein is under 16 years of age and has some condition or injury or disease t…
Upon filing a report under ORS 444.110, the judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 shall: Fix a day for a hearing upon the complaint. Cause the person or institution having legal custody of the child to be served with a notice of the hearing. Notify the district attorney, who shall appear and conduct the proceedings. At the hearing …
The president of the Oregon Health and Science University, or other person designated by the president shall: Upon receiving the child, provide for it, if available, hospital facilities. Designate the clinic of the Oregon Health and Science University to which the patient shall be assigned for treatment of the deformity or malady in each particular case. …
If the physician or surgeon of the clinic to which the child has been assigned for treatment declines to treat the child, the physician or surgeon shall make a report, in duplicate, of the examination of the child and state therein the reasons for declining treatment. The duplicate copy of the report shall be preserved in the records of the Oregon Health and…
No compensation shall be charged by or allowed to the physician or surgeon who treats a patient committed under ORS 444.120.
The superintendent of the hospital or other person designated by the authorities of the Oregon Health and Science University shall: Keep a correct account of the medicine, treatment, nursing and maintenance furnished to the patient, and set forth therein the actual, reasonable and necessary cost thereof. Make and file monthly with the judge exercising juri…
The judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 shall present the statement of the Oregon Health and Science University to the board of county commissioners. Upon being satisfied that the statement is correct and reasonable, the board of county commissioners shall approve it and direct that warrants be drawn by the county clerk upon the coun…
The judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 may, in the discretion of the judge, appoint some person to accompany the child from the place where the child is to the Oregon Health and Science University, or from the Oregon Health and Science University to such place as is designated by the judge with the consent of the person having legal…
Any person appointed as attendant under ORS 444.180 or to make an investigation and report of any questions involved in the complaint other than the examining physician, shall receive $3 per day for time actually spent in making an investigation and for actual and necessary expenses incurred in making an investigation or trip except that no compensation shal…
The Oregon Health and Science University, in the discretion of the person designated by the authorities in control thereof, may pay: Actual, reasonable, necessary expenses of returning the patient to the home of the patient. The attendant the actual, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in accompanying a patient to the home of the patient and no more…
Upon the written request of the person or institution having legal custody of a child, filed with the judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 at the time of the hearing under ORS 444.120, to the effect that the person or institution having legal custody of the child desires the child taken or sent to a designated hospital or medical scho…
When any child, pursuant to ORS 444.210, becomes a patient at any institution not affiliated with the Oregon Health and Science University, the person in charge thereof shall perform all duties and requirements set forth in ORS 444.160; and all warrants in payment of any bills or accounts therein mentioned shall be made payable to such institution.
No child under the terms of ORS 444.110 to 444.240 shall be treated for any ailment except as is described by the order of the court under ORS 444.120, unless permission for such treatment is granted by the parents or guardians. No child shall be used for the purpose of experimentation.
The Oregon Health and Science University shall prepare blanks containing such questions and requiring such information as may in its judgment be necessary and proper to be obtained by the physician who examines the patient under order of court. A supply of such blanks shall be sent to the judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005. The pre…
Subject to available funding, including gifts, grants or donations, the Oregon Health Authority shall establish a uniform, statewide database for the collection of information on Type I and Type II diabetes occurring in children in Oregon. The purposes of the database shall be to collect and serve as a repository for data about the prevalence and incidence o…
The Oregon Health Authority shall conduct an annual survey, to be completed by June 15, of all public schools and public charter schools in Oregon to collect data about diabetes occurring in students. Each school surveyed shall report to the authority for each student enrolled at the school who has Type 1 or Type II diabetes: The name and address of the stu…
As used in this section, “child” means an individual 18 years of age or younger. In accordance with ORS 444.300, upon diagnosing or first treating a child with Type I or Type II diabetes, a physician shall report to the Oregon Health Authority: The name and address of the child; The gender of the child; The date of birth of the child; The type of diabet…
All identifying information regarding individual children that is reported to the Oregon Health Authority pursuant to ORS 444.300 to 444.330 shall be confidential and privileged. Except as required in connection with the administration or enforcement of public health laws or rules, no public health official, employee, agent or other person entitled to access…