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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

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HB 5041 Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospice facilities; public health emergency, etc.

Introduced by: Christopher T. Head | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19, each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice establish a protocol to allow each patient to receive visits, consistent with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as directed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Board of Health. The bill contains an emergency clause and requires the Department of Health to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the act to be effective within 280 days of its enactment. This bill is identical to SB 5042.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices; visitation; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to amend regulations governing nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and hospices to require that, during a public health emergency related to COVID-19, each nursing home, certified nursing facility, and hospice establish a protocol to allow each patient to receive visits, consistent with guidance from the centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as directed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Board of the Health.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities; electronic monitoring. Provides for voluntary electronic monitoring of patient's or resident's rooms at nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities. The bill requires the Boards of Health and Social Services to adopt regulations governing voluntary electronic monitoring of patient's or resident's rooms and provides that no patient shall be denied admission to or discharged from a nursing home, certified nursing facility, or assisted living facility solely because the patient or resident implements electronic monitoring or refuses to consent to electronic monitoring in any room in which he resides.