Directs the commissioner of health to establish demonstration projects providing for equity investment in the operation of residential health care facilities.
Provides for updates to rates for residential health care facilities.
Provides for updates to rates for residential health care facilities.
Removes certain residential programs, residential facilities and child care institutions from the definition of the term "youth shelter" for purposes of the education of persons in youth shelters.
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).
Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
Provides that such rates of payment shall be updated to reflect the most current mean price for free-standing residential health care facilities with less than three hundred beds each time that the cost basis of residential health care facility rates is updated.
Provides that such rates of payment shall be updated to reflect the most current mean price for free-standing residential health care facilities with less than three hundred beds each time that the cost basis of residential health care facility rates is updated.
Requires reporting on the status of issues at residential health care facilities to the state long-term care ombudsman.
Requires reporting on the status of issues at residential health care facilities to the state long-term care ombudsman.