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NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.14 - Posting of drinking water test reports by rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, nursing homes.

26:2H-12.14 Posting of drinking water test reports by rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, nursing homes.  4. a. The owner or operator of a rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or nursing home who is required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996," (42 U.S.C.s.300f et al.), or who receives a Consumer Confidence Report from the owner or operator of a public community water system, shall post each Consumer Confidence Report it prepares or receives in at least one conspicuous location in the rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or nursing home. b. The owner or operator of a rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or nursing home who is a supplier of water but is not required to prepare a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996," and who is required to conduct tests of its drinking water by the Department of Environmental Protection, shall post a chart setting forth the results of the water tests, including the level of detection and, as appropriate for each contaminant, the maximum contaminant level, highest level allowed, action level, treatment technique, or other expression of an acceptable level, for each contaminant, in at least one conspicuous location in the rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or nursing home. The chart also shall include in bold print the statement required to be included in a Consumer Confidence Report pursuant to 40 CFR s.141.154(a). The chart shall not include contaminants that are not detected. c. As used in this section, "rehabilitation center," "extended care facility," "skilled nursing home," and "nursing home" shall mean a rehabilitation center, extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or nursing home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).  d. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Department of Health. The Department of Health shall not be required to conduct on-site inspections to determine compliance with this section more frequently than any on-site inspections of rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, skilled nursing homes, or nursing homes are conducted by the department pursuant to any other law. L.1999, c.362, s.4; amended 2012, c.17, s.186.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.15 - Regulations on use of unlicensed assistive personnel.

26:2H-12.15 Regulations on use of unlicensed assistive personnel.  2. a. The Commissioner of Health, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt regulations governing the use of unlicensed assistive personnel in licensed health care facilities, in consultation with at least the following: the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, the New Jersey Hospital Association, the New Jersey Association of Health Care Facilities, the Medical Society of New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Nurses Association. As used in this section, "unlicensed assistive personnel" means any unlicensed or uncertified personnel employed by a licensed health care facility that perform nursing tasks which do not require the skill or judgment of a registered professional nurse and which are assigned to them by, and carried out under the supervision of, a registered professional nurse. b. The regulations adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section, shall require, at a minimum, that: (1) unlicensed assistive personnel employed by a health care facility meet the standards and requirements for education and competency evaluation prescribed by the New Jersey Board of Nursing pursuant to paragraph (26) of subsection d. of section 2 of P.L.1947, c.262 (C.45:11-24); and (2) a health care facility, prior to implementing the use of unlicensed assistive personnel, establish a multidisciplinary committee, including representation from registered professional nurses, physicians, administrative staff, and unlicensed assistive personnel, to evaluate the need for using these personnel, formulate and adopt a plan to implement their use, and monitor the implementation of the plan. c. The plan for implementing the use of unlicensed assistive personnel pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection b. of this section shall, at a minimum: (1) require the use and specify the composition of multidisciplinary patient care teams operating under the plan; (2) prescribe materials and protocols for the orientation and training of health care facility staff with respect to implementing the plan; (3) provide for the periodic monitoring and evaluation of the use of unlicensed assistive personnel by the multidisciplinary committee established pursuant to subsection b. of this section; and (4) require in-service training and educational programming for both registered professional nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel which include subject matter relating to the delegation of nursing tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel and the supervision of these personnel by registered professional nurses. L.1999, c.436, s.2; amended 2012, c.17, s.187.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.16 - Definitions relative to residential facilities for Medicaid recipients; 10 percent utilization requirement.

26:2H-12.16 Definitions relative to residential facilities for Medicaid recipients; 10 percent utilization requirement.  1. a. For the purposes of this act, "Medicaid" means the program established pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1 et seq.) and "Medicaid-eligible" means that a person is determined to meet the financial eligibility standards for medical assistance under the State Medicaid program and is approved by the Department of Health and Senior Services for participation in a federally approved 1915(c) waiver program that provides assisted living services. b. A new facility that is licensed to operate an assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home after the effective date of this act shall reserve 10% of its total bed compliment for use by Medicaid-eligible persons. The 10% utilization by Medicaid-eligible persons shall be met through Medicaid conversion of persons who enter the assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home as private paying persons and subsequently become eligible for Medicaid, or through direct admission of Medicaid-eligible persons. An assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home shall achieve this 10% utilization within three years of licensure to operate and shall maintain this level of utilization thereafter. c. Existing assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes that add additional assisted living beds shall be required, as a condition of licensure approval, to maintain 10% of the additional beds for Medicaid-eligible persons through Medicaid conversion of persons who enter the assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home as private paying persons and subsequently become eligible for Medicaid, or through direct admission of Medicaid-eligible persons. If the total number of additional beds is less than 10, at least one of the additional beds shall be reserved for a Medicaid-eligible person. L.2001,c.234,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.17 - Waiver of utilization requirement.

26:2H-12.17 Waiver of utilization requirement.  2. The Commissioner of Health may waive the 10% utilization requirement or reduce the required percentage by regulation for specific regions of the State or Statewide if the commissioner determines that sufficient numbers of assisted living beds are available in the State to meet the needs of Medicaid-eligible persons within the limits of the federal waiver to provide assisted living services through the Medicaid program. L.2001, c.234, s.2; amended 2012, c.17, s.188.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.18 - Reserve requirement as fulfillment of utilization requirements.

26:2H-12.18 Reserve requirement as fulfillment of utilization requirements.  3. The 10% reserve requirement of this act shall be recognized to fulfill all or a portion, as applicable, of low and moderate income or Medicaid utilization requirements contained in municipal ordinances and shall satisfy all or a portion, as applicable, of low income housing requirements for assisted living residences or comprehensive personal care homes that are financed by bonds mandating low income housing as a condition of financing. L.2001,c.234,s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.19 - Construction of act.

26:2H-12.19 Construction of act.  4. Nothing in this act shall be construed to: prohibit an existing assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home or assisted living program, which is not affected by this act, from participating in the Medicaid program; or create an entitlement to financing under the Medicaid program for services provided at assisted living residences or comprehensive personal care homes. L.2001,c.234,s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.20 - Applicability of act.

26:2H-12.20 Applicability of act.  5. This act shall not apply to an assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home operated by a continuing care retirement community operating under a certificate of authority issued by the Department of Community Affairs pursuant to P.L.1986, c.103 (C.52:27D-330 et seq.). L.2001,c.234,s.5.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.21 - Rules, regulations.

26:2H-12.21 Rules, regulations.  6. The Commissioner of Health shall adopt regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. L.2001, c.234, s.6; amended 2012, c.17, s.189.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.22 - Domestic partner permitted visitation in health care facility.

26:2H-12.22 Domestic partner permitted visitation in health care facility.  13. a. A health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall allow a patient's domestic partner as defined in section 3 of P.L.2003, c.246 (C.26:8A-3), the children of the patient's domestic partner, and the domestic partner of the patient's parent or child to visit, unless one of the following conditions is met: (1) No visitors are allowed; (2) The health care facility reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor would endanger the health or safety of a patient, a member of the staff of the facility, or another visitor to the facility, or would significantly disrupt the operations of the facility; or (3) The patient has indicated to health care facility staff that the patient does not want the person to visit. b. The provisions of subsection a. of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting a health care facility from otherwise establishing reasonable restrictions upon visitations, including restrictions upon the hours of visitation and number of visitors. L.2003,c.246,s.13.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.23 - Short title

26:2H-12.23. Short title  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Patient Safety Act." L.2004,c.9,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.24 - Findings, declarations relative to patient safety

26:2H-12.24. Findings, declarations relative to patient safety  2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Adverse events, some of which are the result of preventable errors, are inherent in all systems, and the health care literature demonstrates that the great majority of medical errors result from systems problems, not individual incompetence; b. Well-designed systems have processes built in to minimize the occurrence of errors, as well as to detect those that do occur; they incorporate mechanisms to continually improve their performance; c. To enhance patient safety, the goal is to craft a health care delivery system that minimizes, to the greatest extent feasible, the harm to patients that results from the delivery system itself; d. An important component of a successful patient safety strategy is a feedback mechanism that allows detection and analysis not only of adverse events, but also of "near-misses"; e. To encourage disclosure of these events so that they can be analyzed and used for improvement, it is critical to create a non-punitive culture that focuses on improving processes rather than assigning blame. Health care facilities and professionals must be held accountable for serious preventable adverse events; however, punitive environments are not particularly effective in promoting accountability and increasing patient safety, and may be a deterrent to the exchange of information required to reduce the opportunity for errors to occur in the complex systems of care delivery. Fear of sanctions induces health care professionals and organizations to be silent about adverse events, resulting in serious under-reporting; and f. By establishing an environment that both mandates the confidential disclosure of the most serious, preventable adverse events, and also encourages the voluntary, anonymous and confidential disclosure of less serious adverse events, as well as preventable events and near misses, the State seeks to increase the amount of information on systems failures, analyze the sources of these failures and disseminate information on effective practices for reducing systems failures and improving the safety of patients. L.2004,c.9,s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.25a (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.25a - Compilation of findings on patient safety; annual reports.

26:2H-12.25a Compilation of findings on patient safety; annual reports.  8. The Commissioner of Health and the Commissioner of Human Services shall compile their findings and recommendations for operational changes related to patient safety in health care facilities, based on information reported to the commissioners pursuant to the "Patient Safety Act," P.L.2004, c.9 (C.26:2H-12.23 et seq.). The commissioners shall jointly issue an annual report of their findings and recommendations to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to be made available on the official Internet website of the Department of Health. L.2007, c.196, s.8; amended 2012, c.17, s.191.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.25b (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.25b - Certain data included in New Jersey Hospital Performance Report; rules, regulations.

26:2H-12.25b Certain data included in New Jersey Hospital Performance Report; rules, regulations.  1. a. The Department of Health shall include in the New Jersey Hospital Performance Report issued annually by the department hospital-specific data from hospital procedure and diagnosis codes concerning the following patient safety indicators: (1) Foreign body left during procedure (PSI 05); (2) Iatrogenic pneumothorax (PSI 06); (3) Postoperative hip fracture (PSI 08); (4) Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma (PSI 09); (5) Postoperative deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) (PSI 12); (6) Postoperative sepsis (PSI 13); (7) Postoperative wound dehiscence (PSI 14); (8) Accidental puncture or laceration (PSI 15); (9) Transfusion reaction (PSI 16); (10) Birth trauma (PSI 17); (11) Obstetric trauma-vaginal delivery with instrument (PSI 18); (12) Obstetric trauma-vaginal delivery without instrument (PSI 19); (13) Air embolism; and (14) Surgery on the wrong side, wrong body part, or wrong person, or wrong surgery performed on a patient. b. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Advisory Committee in the Department of Health, may include additional patient safety indicators in the annual report, by regulation. The commissioner shall consider indicators that: (1) are recommended by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; (2) are suitable for comparative reporting and public accountability, and are risk adjusted; (3) have a strong evidence base with no substantial evidence against their use for comparative reporting; and (4) can be measured through data that are available through hospital procedure and diagnosis codes. c. The commissioner shall request the Quality Improvement Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to the commissioner on how to expand public reporting by the department of patient pressure ulcers, patient infections due to hospital care, and falls by patients in general hospitals. d. The commissioner shall, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt such rules and regulations as the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.2009, c.122, s.1; amended 2012, c.17, s.192.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.25c (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.25c - General hospital prohibited from seeking payment for certain conditions; notification to patients.

26:2H-12.25c General hospital prohibited from seeking payment for certain conditions; notification to patients.  2. a. A general hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall not seek to obtain payment from a patient or any third party payer for costs associated with any of the following conditions or events subject to the hospital acquired condition payment policy for the Medicare program established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: transfusion reaction; air embolism; foreign body left during the procedure; surgery on the wrong side, wrong body part, or wrong person; or wrong surgery performed on a patient. Notwithstanding the payment prohibition in this subsection, the hospital shall file claim information that accurately reflects all services provided. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit a hospital from seeking to obtain payment from a patient or any third party payer for any services that the hospital provides for which it is otherwise permitted to seek to obtain payment. b. A general hospital shall be required to notify its patients of the provisions of this section. c. Nothing in this section shall be construed to deny any party access to any existing payment appeals process. d. In any civil action alleging professional negligence against a general hospital, the provisions of this section shall not modify the requirement, where applicable, for expert testimony in accordance with the established case law of this State. e. The Commissioners of Health and Senior Services and Banking and Insurance shall collaborate in developing standards for general hospitals and third party payers to implement the provisions of this section.  L.2009, c.122, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:2H-12.26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:2H-12.26 - Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, defibrillator, trained personnel; required.

26:2H-12.26 Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, defibrillator, trained personnel; required.  1. A nursing home that is licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et al.) shall, no later than one year after the effective date of P.L.2004, c.93 (C.26:2H-12.26), and an assisted living facility that is licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 shall, no later than one year after the effective date of P.L.2009, c.46: a. acquire at least one defibrillator as defined in section 2 of P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-24), which shall be maintained in a central location within the nursing home or assisted living facility that shall be made known and available to the employees of the nursing home or assisted living facility for the purposes of this act; b. ensure that the defibrillator is tested and maintained, and provide notification to the appropriate first aid, ambulance, or rescue squad, or other appropriate emergency medical services provider regarding the defibrillator, the type acquired, and its location, pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-25); c. arrange and pay for training in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and the use of a defibrillator for employees of the nursing home or assisted living facility to ensure that the employees hold current certification from the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, or other training program recognized by the Department of Health and Senior Services in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and use of a defibrillator; and d. ensure that an employee who uses a defibrillator requests emergency medical assistance from the appropriate first aid, ambulance, or rescue squad as soon as practicable. L.2004, c.93, s.1; amended 2009, c.46; 2012, c.6, s.6.