Services for children with physical disabilities

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Health
4. General Provisions
5. Maternal, Child Health, Physical Disability and Intellectual Disability Children's Services
6. Services for children with physical disabilities

• The Department of Health may establish and administer a program of services for children with physical disabilities or who are suffering from conditions which lead to physical disability, which shall provide for developing, extending, and improving services for locating such children, and for providing medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare. Under such program the Department shall—

  • (1) supervise the administration of those services included in the program which are not administered directly by it;

  • (2) provide such methods of administration, including those necessary to establish and maintain a merit system of personnel administration, as are necessary for the efficient operation of the plan;

  • (3) extend and improve any such services;

  • (4) cooperate with medical, health, nursing, and welfare groups and organizations, and with any agency of the Federal Government charged with the administration of laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped children;

  • (5) cooperate with the Federal Government, through its appropriate agency or instrumentality, in developing, extending, and improving such services; and

  • (6) receive and expend all funds made available to the Department by the Federal Government, the government of the Virgin Islands or its political subdivisions, or from other sources, for such purposes.

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