S-5, r. 5 - Organization and Management of Institutions Regulation

Section 70 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

70. The organization plan of a short-term care hospital centre shall provide for setting up a clinical department of medical biological laboratories. The department shall deal, among other matters, with anatomical pathology, biochemistry, hematology and microbiology, unless there is a separate department for those branches. The head of the department, under the control of the director of professional services, shall manage the human, material and financial resources of the department.

Where no physician holding a specialist’s certificate in biological medicine devotes the greater part of his hospital time to the hospital centre, the director of professional services shall designate a person to be responsible, under his control, for managing the human, material and financial resources of the department. Where that person is not a physician, he will not be responsible for managing the medical resources of the department.

Where a department of biochemistry or microbiology is set up in a hospital centre, the head of the biochemistry or microbiology department may be a physician or a professional holding a diploma in any area of medical biology. Under the control of the director of professional services, the head of the department of biochemistry or microbiology shall manage the human, material and financial resources of his department.

O.C. 1320-84, s. 70; O.C. 545-86, s. 30.