All hospitals, their officers or employees and medical and nursing personnel practicing therein, shall with reasonable promptness prepare, make and maintain true and accurate hospital records complying with such methods and minimum standards as may be prescribed from time to time by rules and regulations adopted by the licensing agency.
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-63
Hospitals required to prepare and maintain hospital records
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Trevino v. Ortega (1998)
Most recently applied in 914 So. 2d 1272 - Young v. UNIVERSITY OF MISS. MED. CENTER (November 2005)
Codes, 1942, § 7146-52; Laws, 1962, ch. 411, § 2, eff 60 days from and after passage (approved March 28, 1962
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