Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE)
Impact
The bill also allocates 250 nursing home beds specifically targeting patients with complex healthcare needs, ensuring they receive prioritized care. Additionally, health care providers must demonstrate their capacity to meet the unique requirements of these patients, which includes hiring a sufficient workforce and becoming licensed and certified within a set timeframe. This allocation addresses existing shortages and improves access for individuals with complicated medical profiles, thereby influencing state healthcare laws regarding patient admission and resource distribution.
Summary
Senate Bill 1027 is designed to improve the process of admitting incapacitated individuals into health care facilities like nursing homes. It permits a patient's representative to consent to the admission of an incapacitated person directly from a hospital to a nursing home or community-based residential facility without requiring a court petition for guardianship or protective placement. This streamlines the admission process for those in urgent need of care while imposing certain conditions to safeguard the rights of the incapacitated individuals.
Contention
Notable points of contention may arise around the degree to which a patient's representative can make health care decisions without court oversight, as well as concerns about how this shift in law affects the establishment of guardianship rights. Critics may argue that this approach risks diminishing protections for some vulnerable individuals if representatives do not act in the best interests of the patients. Overall, the bill seeks to strike a balance between expediting necessary care and protecting the rights and well-being of those who are incapacitated.
Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE)
Requires hospitals to provide certain resources to certain patients and to ask patients if patients have completed advance directive or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
Requires hospitals to provide certain resources to certain patients and to ask patients if patients have completed advance directive or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
An Act Requiring Long-term Care Facilities To Provide Patients With A Copy Of The Patient's Bill Of Rights, Post Staffing Ratios And Institute Consultative Processes For Certain Patient Room Transfers.
Health care; Lori Brand Patient Bill of Rights Act of 2022; rights of patients; responsibilities of patients; rights of minors; responsibilities of parents; effective date.
Enacting the no patient left alone act to require facilities to allow in-person visitation to certain patients at hospitals, adult care home and patient care facilities.
Health care; Lori Brand Patient Bill of Rights Act of 2023; rights of patients; responsibilities of patients; rights of minors; responsibilities of parents; effective date.
Health care; Lori Brand Patient Bill of Rights Act of 2023; rights of patients; responsibilities of patients; rights of minors; responsibilities of parents; effective date.
Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE)
Probate: other; designation of a patient surrogate for health care decisions; allow. Amends 1998 PA 386 (MCL 700.1101 - 700.8206) by adding pt. 6 to art. V & repeals sec. 66h of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.66h). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4419'25
Establishes the Designated Health Care Decision-Maker Act, which authorizes certain persons to make health care decisions for certain incapacitated persons