Hospital Board

The CBJ Assembly appoints the Hospital Board which governs Bartlett Regional Hospital. It is an enterprise fund, empowering the board with the responsibility for the economic viability and oversight of management of medical and operational issues.

CBJ Code 40.05.020 provides in part:
"(a) Subject to state laws and City and Borough ordinances, the hospital board of directors shall be responsible for the operation of all hospitals owned or leased by the City and Borough according to the best interests of the public's health, shall make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the administration of hospitals under their management, shall prescribe the terms under which patients shall be admitted thereto and shall establish and enforce standards of operation. The hospital board of directors shall, within the hospital appropriation, establish and may amend the pay plan for hospital employees..."

CBJ 40.05.010 provides for board membership the following in part:
"The hospital board of directors shall consist of nine members appointed by the assembly for staggered three-year terms. Members of the hospital board of directors shall serve at the pleasure of the assembly. Up to two members of the hospital board of directors may be physicians in the community appointed from a list of those names submitted by the hospital medical staff. Terms shall commence on January 1. No board member, or member of a board member's immediate family or household, may be employed by the hospital..."