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2017 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Professions

Dunnavant (Chairman), Suetterlein, Carrico, Barker, Lucas, Peake

Clerk: Patty Lung, Rhonda Johnson
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: January 31, 2017
Time and Place: 8:30 AM - 4th Floor East

S.B. 1233

Patron: Chafin

Temporary detention; certified evaluators. Allows emergency physicians, psychiatrists, and certain psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric clinical nurse specialists, licensed clinical psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and licensed clinical social workers to perform evaluations to determine whether a person meets the criteria for temporary detention for mental health treatment in cases in which an employee or designee of the community services board is not available to perform an evaluation within two hours of receiving notification that an evaluation is required.

S.B. 1511

Patron: Deeds

Advance directives; mental health treatment; capacity determinations. Amends procedures for advance directives to (i) provide that in cases in which a person has executed an advance directive granting an agent authority to make decisions regarding admission to a facility for mental health treatment, the determination that the person is incapable of making an informed decision regarding such care or admission may be made by the attending physician or a psychiatrist, licensed clinical psychologist, licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner, or designee of the local community services board following an in-person examination and (ii) provide that a person's agent may make a health care decision over the protest of the person if, in addition to other factors, at the time the advance directive was made, a licensed physician, licensed clinical psychologist, licensed physician assistant, licensed nurse practitioner, licensed professional counselor, or licensed clinical social worker who was familiar with the person attested in writing that the person was capable of making an informed decision and understood the consequences of the provision. The bill also clarifies that admission of a person to a facility for mental health treatment by an agent acting pursuant to an advance directive shall be subject to the statutory requirements relating to admission of an incapacitated person pursuant to an advance directive.

S.B. 1561

Patron: Dunnavant

Emergency Department Care Coordination Program established. Establishes the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program in the Department of Health to provide a single, statewide technology solution that connects all hospital emergency departments in the Commonwealth to facilitate real-time communication and collaboration between physicians, other health care providers, and other clinical and care management personnel for patients receiving services in hospital emergency departments, for the purpose of improving the quality of patient care services.