Requires retail food establishments to maintain and promote community hygiene as part of standardized business practices. (8/1/18) (RE +$75,000 SG RV See Note)
Provides relative to visitation of nursing home residents and assisted living facility residents by persons designated as essential caregivers or compassionate care visitors
Provides for assessments, a self-reporting waiver, and the extension of protected actions and communications applicable to the allied practitioner health program
Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to submit a request to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend Louisiana's Section 1115a demonstration waiver for the Greater New Orleans Community Health Connection and authorizes the governor and the secretary of the department to identify a source or sources for matching of non-federal funds required under the extended waiver.
Requests DHH to examine the benefits of routine nutritional screening and therapeutic nutrition treatment for those who are malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, as well as examine the benefits of such actions as part of the standard for evidenced-based hospital care.
Provides for drug testing requirements for recipients of cash assistance in the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (RE +$64,466 GF EX See Note)