G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 346 Disposition versions

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346. A private institution must fulfill the following obligations:

(1)  create a watchdog committee to which sections 155, 156, 158 and 159 apply;

(2)  establish a risk management committee to which sections 174 and 176 to 178 apply;

(3)  establish a users’ committee and, where applicable, a residents’ committee to which sections 179 to 187 apply; and

(4)  adopt rules regarding disclosure to a user, to the representative of a user who is a minor or an incapable person of full age or, in the event of a user’s death, to the user’s heirs, legatees by particular title or the liquidator of the succession of any necessary information when an accident occurs.

The provisions to which the first paragraph refers apply with the following modifications and any other necessary modifications:

(1)  a reference to the board of directors of the private institution or, if the institution is not a legal person, to the authorization holder is substituted for any reference to the institution board of directors of an institution of Santé Québec and for any reference to the board of directors of Santé Québec;

(2)  a reference to the private institution’s by-laws is substituted for any reference to Santé Québec’s by-laws; and

(3)  a reference to the most senior officer of the private institution is substituted for any reference to the president and executive director of an institution of Santé Québec.

Santé Québec may, by regulation, determine which powers, from among those conferred on a private institution’s most senior officer by the provisions referred to in the first paragraph, may be withdrawn or restricted by the institution’s board of directors in order for the board to exercise them itself.

2023, c. 34, s. 346.