135B.20  Definitions.

Definitions as used in this division:

1.  "Doctor" shall mean any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathy or osteopathy and surgery in this state.

2.  "Employees" as used in section 135B.24, and "employment" as used in section 135B.25, shall include and pertain to members of the religious order operating the hospital even though the relationship of employer and employee does not exist between such members and the hospital.

3.  "Hospital" shall mean all hospitals licensed under this chapter.

4.  "Joint conference committee" shall mean the joint conference committee as required by the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations or, in a hospital having no such committee, a similar committee, an equal number of which shall be members of the medical staff selected by the staff and an equal number of which shall be selected by the governing board of the hospital.

5.  "Technician" shall mean technologist as well.

Section History: Early form

  [C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135B.20]

Section History: Recent form

  98 Acts, ch 1100, §16


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