185. The organization plan of a hospital centre operated by a public institution must include the following departments:(1) anesthesia;
(2) surgery;
(3) gynecology-obstetrics;
(4) medical imaging;
(5) general medicine;
(6) specialized medicine;
(7) emergency medicine;
(8) pediatrics;
(9) pharmacy; and
(10) psychiatry.
The Minister shall determine the public institutions that must include a clinical department of laboratory medicine, a clinical department of dentistry or a clinical department of public health in their organization plan.
The clinical department of medical imaging must group the radiology and nuclear medicine services, and the clinical department of laboratory medicine must group the hematology, biochemistry, pathology, microbiology and genetics laboratory services. The clinical department of specialized medicine must include the radiation oncology service, the medical oncology service and the clinical activities in hematology and in microbiology and infectious diseases.
The Minister may authorize an institution to derogate from this section.
1991, c. 42, s. 185; 1992, c. 21, s. 70; 1998, c. 39, s. 68; 2017, c. 212017, c. 21, s. 241.