S-4.2 - Act respecting health services and social services

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81. The mission of a hospital centre is to offer diagnostic services and general and specialized medical care. To that end, an institution which operates a hospital centre shall admit, mainly on referral, the persons who require such services or care, ensure that their needs are assessed and that the required services, including nursing care and specialized, preventive or rehabilitative psychosocial services, are offered within the facilities or, where necessary, that the persons are referred as soon as possible to the centres, organizations or persons best suited to assist them.
1991, c. 42, s. 81; 1992, c. 21, s. 70.