Enacts the "safer health care facility construction act"; requires the commissioner of health to adopt infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards to reduce the risk from infection in all health care facilities; requires all construction work performed on a new health care facility and on the expansion of an existing health care facility to be compliant with ICRA standards; requires people performing construction work on a health care facility be certified in compliance with ICRA standards.
Enacts the "safer health care facility construction act"; requires the commissioner of health to adopt infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards to reduce the risk from infection in all health care facilities; requires all construction work performed on a new health care facility and on the expansion of an existing health care facility to be compliant with ICRA standards; requires people performing construction work on a health care facility be certified in compliance with ICRA standards.
Requires nursing homes and certain facilities to provide health care proxy forms to patients at or prior to admission to such facilities; requires the facility to file such health care proxies with the department of health.
Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Provides for coordination between the department of health and the state long-term care ombudsman regarding residential health care facilities, including such facilities' compliance with state and federal law, and histories of complaints.
Provides for coordination between the department of health and the state long-term care ombudsman regarding residential health care facilities, including such facilities' compliance with state and federal law, and histories of complaints.