Sec. 17b-233. (Formerly Sec. 17-307). Care of handicapped and other children at Newington Children's Hospital. Children with drug-related conditions not to be admitted.
Sec. 17b-233. (Formerly Sec. 17-307). Care of handicapped and other children
at Newington Children's Hospital. Children with drug-related conditions not to
be admitted. Newington Children's Hospital may admit any child who is handicapped
or afflicted with any pediatric illness upon application of the selectmen of any town, or
the guardian or any relative of such child, or any public health agency or physician,
provided, no person shall be admitted primarily for the treatment of any drug-related
condition. Said hospital shall admit such child to said hospital if such child is pronounced
by the physicians on the staff of said hospital, after examination, to be suitable for
admission, and said hospital shall keep and support such child for such length of time
as it deems proper. Said hospital shall not be required to admit any such child unless it
can conveniently receive and care for such child at the time application is made and
said hospital may return to the town in which such child resides any child so taken who
is pronounced by the physicians on the staff of said hospital, after examination, to be
unsuitable for retention or who, by reason of improvement in his condition or completion
of his treatment or training, ought not to be further retained. The hospital may refuse
to admit any child pronounced by the physicians on the staff of said hospital, after
examination, to be unsuitable for admission and may refuse to admit any such child
when the facilities at the hospital will not, in the judgment of said physicians, permit
the hospital to care for such child adequately and properly.
(1949 Rev., S. 2609; June, 1949, 1955, S. 1440d; 1959, P.A. 610, S. 1; P.A. 80-293, S. 1, 2.)
History: 1959 act changed name of hospital, substituted affliction with "noncontagious pediatric illness or handicapping
physical condition" for "poliomyelitis or cerebral palsy or any uncontagious crippling disease," deleted statement that
child or relatives must be unable to pay and required that child be "suitable" rather than "fit" for admission; P.A. 80-293
changed admission requirement, substituting "handicapped" child for one "of sound mind who is a cripple", allowing
admission for any pediatric illness rather than for "noncontagious" illnesses alone and deleting reference to "handicapping
physical condition", and added proviso prohibiting admission "primarily for the treatment of any drug-related condition";
Sec. 17-307 transferred to Sec. 17b-233 in 1995.
Annotation to former section 17-307:
In tort action no recovery allowed for value of services rendered gratuitously by state-supported or other public charity.
129 C. 207.