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2022 SESSION

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HB 235 Hospitals; protocols for patients receiving rehabilitation services.

Introduced by: Robert D. Orrock, Sr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Rehabilitation hospitals; arrangements for follow-up care. Directs the Board of Health to convene a work group to provide recommendations regarding regulations requiring hospitals to develop protocols for connecting patients receiving rehabilitation services to necessary follow-up care. The bill requires the work group to report its recommendations to the Board of Health by October 1, 2022.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Rehabilitation hospitals; arrangements for follow-up care. Requires every hospital that provides rehabilitation services to make arrangements for all necessary follow-up care for a patient prior to discharging such patient, including scheduling initial appointments for any follow-up care and providing the patient with the names and contact information for each provider and information regarding each scheduled appointments.