Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
Relates to the establishment of a staffing plan for all uniformed and non-uniformed employees at correctional facilities to ensure adequate staffing.
Establishes temporary health care staffing agencies to assist qualified health care professionals to find temporary employment at health care facilities.
Establishes temporary health care staffing agencies to assist qualified health care professionals to find temporary employment at health care facilities.
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.
Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels.
Relates to safe staffing for public employees of institutional settings by setting maximum overtime levels.
Expands the scope of nurse staffing committees to include additional types of health care facilities.
Requires a minimum registered nurse staffing ratio of one nurse for every two intensive care or critical care patients.