NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1014

HOUSE BILL 260

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE CAPITAL FUNDS TO SUPPLEMENT THE APPROPRIATION RECOMMENDATION FOR THOMS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL IN THE BUDGET RECOMMENDED BY THE GOVERNOR AND ADVISORY BUDGET COMMISSION.

 

Whereas, Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital was established in 1938 as a nonprofit organization for the treatment of crippled children; and

Whereas, in 1972 Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital began treating both children and adults; and

Whereas, Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital has grown in giving services to not only Western North Carolina, but to the entire State of North Carolina; and

Whereas, inpatient and outpatient services consist of physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreation therapy, speech and hearing, psychology, rehabilitation nursing, medical services, respiratory therapy and social services; and

Whereas, the majority of the facility has deteriorated to the point that makes replacement a necessity; and

Whereas, by modernizing this portion of the hospital, it will bring those beds up to both JCAH (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals) and CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) standards; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 for renovation and refurbishing of the patient area at Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital in Asheville. This appropriation is in addition to all other appropriations to the Department of Human Resources for Thoms Rehabilitation Hospital.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of October, 1981.