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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 24 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5148 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 24 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT REQUIRING A REVIEW OF DISCHARGE INSTRUCTIONS | |
| 19 | 19 | AND A PATIENT EVALUATION UPON TRANSFER OF A PATIENT | |
| 20 | 20 | FROM A HOSPITAL TO A NURSING HOME. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That the general statutes be amended to require a physician, 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant employed by 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | a nursing home to evaluate a patient and review the patient's 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | discharge instructions not later than seventy-two hours after the 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | patient was discharged from a hospital and admitted to the nursing 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | home. 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To prevent additional deaths of nursing home patients following their | |
| 32 | 32 | discharge from a hospital. |