Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
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Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
Clarifies that a plan for the delivery of medical supplies and medications to pharmacies, hospitals and nursing homes in affected areas during a state disaster emergency is required.
Clarifies that a plan for the delivery of medical supplies and medications to pharmacies, hospitals and nursing homes in affected areas during a state disaster emergency is required.
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.
Relates to the length of time of a state disaster emergency declaration; requires the governor to transmit a weekly report to the legislature during a state disaster emergency; relates to the communication between the governor and parties affected by a suspension of laws during a state disaster emergency.
Enacts the "uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act" for declared state disaster emergencies; establishes a system to deploy health service workers from out of state during a state disaster emergency.
Establishes evidence-based, flexible staffing models for general hospitals and nursing homes; establishes a commission on hospital staffing to review and update hospital staffing models; establishes a commission on nursing home staffing to review and update nursing home staffing models; provides such models shall be based on the best available evidence regarding staffing and patient safety, provide hospitals or nursing homes with the opportunity to adjust staffing levels in response to the relative skill of the professional staff and the current acuity of the patients, address the patient care roles played by direct-care nursing staff, non-nursing direct-care staff, and allied health professionals, and be adaptable to the relative availability of staff in the regional labor market where the facility is located.
Requires the department of health to conduct 40% of its inspections on nursing homes outside of business hours; requires department of health inspections of nursing homes to be conducted without prior notice to a nursing home; requires an annual nursing home inspection report.