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CT Gen Stat § 19a-490m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490m - Development of surgery protocols by hospitals and outpatient surgical facilities.

 (a) Each hospital and outpatient surgical facility shall develop protocols for accurate identification procedures that shall be used by such hospital or outpatient surgical facility prior to surgery. Such protocols shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) procedures to be followed to identify the (A) patient, (B) surgical procedure to be performed, and (C) body part on which the surgical procedure is to be performed, and (2) alternative identification procedures in urgent or emergency circumstances or where the patient is nonspeaking, comatose or incompetent or is a child. After January 1, 2006, no hospital or outpatient surgical facility may anesthetize a patient or perform surgery unless the protocols have been followed. Each hospital and outpatient surgical facility shall make a copy of the protocols available to the Commissioner of Public Health upon request.(b) Not later than October 1, 2006, the Department of Public Health shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health describing the protocols developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 05-275, S. 26.)History: P.A. 05-275 effective July 13, 2005.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490o - Establishment of mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and microbial resistance. Posting of information on web site.

 (a) The Department of Public Health shall establish a mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance designed to prevent healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. Such system shall be based on nationally recognized and recommended standards.(b) The Department of Public Health shall post annually on the department's Internet web site information collected by the department pursuant to the mandatory reporting system for healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance established under subsection (a) of this section. Such information shall include, but need not be limited to, the following: (1) The number and type of health care associated infections and antimicrobial resistance reported by each health care facility; (2) links to the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's health care associated infection data reports and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' quality improvement program Internet web site; and (3) information to assist members of the public in learning about healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance and how to prevent such infections and resistance.(P.A. 06-142, S. 2, 3; P.A. 10-117, S. 3; P.A. 14-214, S. 2; P.A. 18-168, S. 13.)History: P.A. 06-142 effective June 6, 2006; P.A. 10-117 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “On or before October 1, 2007”, by substituting “consider” for “within available appropriations, implement” re recommendations of advisory committee, by deleting provision re establishment of standardized measures for data reporting and by providing that mandatory reporting system shall be designed to prevent healthcare associated infections, amended Subsec. (b) by deleting “On or before October 1, 2007” re report submission and “implementing” re plan, by adding “Advisory” re committee and by changing “such implementation” to “such plan implementation” and amended Subsec. (c) by changing report date from October 1, 2008, to May 1, 2011; P.A. 14-214 amended Subsec. (c) by adding provision re information to be included in report and added Subsec. (d) re posting information on Internet web site; P.A. 18-168 substantially amended section including by amending Subsec. (a) to delete provision re recommendations of advisory committee, add references to antimicrobial resistance and add provision re system to be based on nationally recognized standards, amending Subsec. (b) to delete provision re submitting report, deleting Subsec. (c) and (d) designators and further amending Subsec. (b) to add provisions re information to be posted on department's Internet web site, and making technical and conforming changes.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490p - Development of plans by hospitals to reduce incidence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections.

 On or before January 1, 2009, each hospital shall develop a plan to reduce the incidence of persons contracting the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection at such hospital. Such plan shall minimally include the strategies the hospital will implement to reduce the incidence of such infections. Such plan shall be submitted to the Department of Public Health and shall be a public record. As used in this section, “hospital” means a hospital licensed under this chapter; “methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus” means the strain of staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also known as MRSA, that is resistant to oxacillin or methicillin and detected and defined according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.(P.A. 08-12, S. 1.)History: P.A. 08-12 effective July 1, 2008.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490r (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490r - Health care employer: Records and report re incidents of workplace violence.

 A health care employer shall maintain records which detail incidents of workplace violence and include the specific area or department of the employer's premises where the incident occurred. A health care employer shall report not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, to the Department of Public Health the number of workplace violence incidents occurring on the employer's premises during the preceding calendar year and the specific area or department where such incidents occurred.(P.A. 11-175, S. 2; P.A. 15-91, S. 2.)History: P.A. 15-91 replaced provision re report by employer upon request of department with provision requiring employer to annually submit report on workplace violence incidences occurring during the preceding calendar year.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490s - Health care employer: Report of assault or related offense to local law enforcement agency.

 Except as provided in this section, a health care employer shall report to such employer's local law enforcement agency any act which may constitute an assault or related offense, as described in part V of chapter 952, against a health care employee acting in the performance of his or her duties. A health care employer shall make such report not later than twenty-four hours after the occurrence of the act. The health care employer shall provide the names and addresses of those involved with such act to the local law enforcement agency. A health care employer shall not be required to report any act which may constitute assault or a related offense if the act was committed by a person with a disability as described in subdivision (13), (15) or (20) of section 46a-51 whose conduct is a clear and direct manifestation of the disability.(P.A. 11-175, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490t - Community health centers. Program to provide financial assistance. Report.

 Section 19a-490t is repealed, effective July 1, 2015.(P.A. 13-234, S. 141; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 520.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490u - Training in symptoms of dementia for hospital direct care staff.

 On or after October 1, 2015, each hospital, as defined in section 19a-490, shall be required to include training in the symptoms of dementia as part of regularly provided training to staff members who provide direct care to patients.(P.A. 15-129, S. 1.)History: P.A. 15-129 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490v - Removal of a delivered placenta from a hospital.

 (a) Except for the portion of a delivered placenta that is necessary for an examination described in subsection (d) of this section, a hospital may allow a woman who has given birth in the hospital, or a spouse of the woman if the woman is incapacitated or deceased, to take possession of and remove from the hospital the placenta if:(1) The woman tests negative for infectious diseases; and(2) The person taking possession of the placenta provides a written acknowledgment that (A) the person received from the hospital educational information concerning the spread of blood-borne diseases from a placenta, the danger of ingesting formalin and the proper handling of the placenta, and (B) the placenta is for personal use.(b) A person removing a placenta from a hospital under this section may only retain the placenta for personal use and may not sell the placenta.(c) The hospital shall retain the signed acknowledgment described in subsection (a) with the woman's medical records.(d) This section does not (1) prohibit a pathological examination of the delivered placenta that is ordered by a physician or required by a policy of the hospital, or (2) authorize a woman or the woman's spouse to interfere with a pathological examination of the delivered placenta that is ordered by a physician or required by a policy of the hospital.(e) A hospital that allows a person to take possession of and remove from the hospital a delivered placenta in accordance with the provisions of this section is not required to dispose of the placenta as biomedical waste.(f) A hospital that acts in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be liable for allowing the removal of a placenta from the hospital in a civil action, a criminal prosecution or an administrative proceeding.(P.A. 16-66, S. 26.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490w (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490w - Certification of hospital as comprehensive stroke center, primary stroke center or acute stroke-ready hospital. Posting of list by department. Removal from list.

 (a) Not later than October 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, any hospital that has been certified as a comprehensive stroke center, a primary stroke center or an acute stroke-ready hospital by the American Heart Association, the Joint Commission or any other nationally recognized certifying organization shall submit an attestation of such certification to the Commissioner of Public Health, in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner. Not later than October 15, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Department of Public Health shall post a list of certified stroke centers on its Internet web site.(b) The department may remove a hospital from the list posted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section if (1) the hospital requests such removal, (2) the department is informed by the American Heart Association, the Joint Commission or other nationally recognized certifying organization that a hospital's certification has expired or been suspended or revoked, or (3) the department does not receive attestation of certification from a hospital on or before October first. The department shall report to the nationally recognized certifying organization any complaint it receives related to the certification of a hospital as a comprehensive stroke center, a primary stroke center or an acute stroke-ready hospital. The department shall provide the complainant with the name and contact information of the nationally recognized certifying organization if the complainant seeks to pursue a complaint with such organization.(P.A. 17-146, S. 40.)History: P.A. 17-146 effective June 30, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490x (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490x - List of comprehensive stroke centers, primary stroke centers and acute stroke-ready centers. Submission and maintenance. Nationally recognized standardized stroke triage tool and prehospital care protocols re assessment, treatment and transport of stoke patients. Recommendations.

 (a) As used in this section, “emergency medical services provider” means a provider licensed or certified under chapter 368d.(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Department of Public Health shall send a list of each hospital designated under section 19a-490w as a comprehensive stroke center, primary stroke center or acute stroke-ready center to the medical director of each emergency medical services provider in the state. The Department of Public Health shall maintain a copy of the list in the Office of Emergency Medical Services.(c) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Connecticut Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board Committee, established under section 19a-178a, shall recommend to the Commissioner of Public Health, for adoption, a nationally recognized standardized stroke triage assessment tool and prehospital care protocols related to the assessment, treatment and transport of stroke patients. Not later than thirty days after receiving recommendations regarding the stroke triage assessment tool and prehospital care protocols, the Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt such stroke triage assessment tool and post such assessment tool and protocols on its Internet web site. The commissioner may make any modifications to such assessment tool as the commissioner deems necessary. The department shall distribute a copy of the stroke triage assessment tool and prehospital care protocols to each emergency medical services provider. Upon receipt of such assessment tool and protocols, each emergency medical services provider shall develop plans to implement such assessment tool and protocols for the triage and transport of acute stroke patients.(P.A. 17-146, S. 41.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-491b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-491b - Notification of criminal conviction or disciplinary action. Civil penalty. False statements. Criminal history records checks.

 (a) Any person who is licensed to establish, conduct, operate or maintain a nursing home or residential care home shall notify the Commissioner of Public Health immediately if the owner, conductor, operator or maintainer of such home, any person described in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 19a-491a, or any nurse or nurse's aide has been convicted of (1) a felony, as defined in section 53a-25, (2) cruelty to persons under section 53-20, or (3) assault of a victim sixty or older under section 53a-61a; or has been subject to any decision imposing disciplinary action by the licensing agency in any state, the District of Columbia, a United States possession or territory or a foreign jurisdiction. Failure to comply with the notification requirement shall subject the licensed person to a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars.(b) Each nursing home and residential care home shall require a person described in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 19a-491a or a nurse or nurse's aide to complete and sign an application form which contains questions as to whether the person has been convicted of any crime specified in subsection (a) of this section or has been subject to any decision imposing disciplinary action as described in said subsection. Any person seeking employment in a position connected with the provision of care in a nursing home or residential care home who makes a false written statement regarding such prior criminal convictions or disciplinary action shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.(c) The Commissioner of Public Health shall require each initial applicant described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 19a-491a to submit to state and national criminal history records checks. The criminal history records checks required by this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section 29-17a.(P.A. 89-350, S. 2; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-175, S. 17, 32; P.A. 13-208, S. 27.)History: P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing language re criminal background investigations with language re state and national criminal history records checks pursuant to Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 13-208 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to residential care home and making a technical change, and amended Subsec. (b) by adding references to residential care home, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-491d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-491d - Prospective employees of home health agency to submit to comprehensive background check. Disclosure re prior disciplinary action.

 (a) As used in this section, “comprehensive background check” means a background investigation performed by a home health agency, as defined in subsection (k) of section 19a-490, of an applicant for employment that includes, but is not limited to: (1) A review of any application materials prepared or requested by the agency and completed by the applicant; (2) an in-person interview of the applicant; (3) verification of the applicant's Social Security number; (4) if the position applied for within the agency requires licensure on the part of the applicant, verification that the required license is in good standing; (5) a check of the registry established and maintained pursuant to section 54-257; (6) a review of criminal conviction information obtained through a search of current criminal matters of public record in this state based on the applicant's name and date of birth; (7) if the applicant has resided in this state less than three years prior to the date of the application for employment, a review of criminal conviction information from the state or states where such applicant resided during such three-year period; and (8) a review of any other information that the agency deems necessary in order to evaluate the suitability of the applicant for the position.(b) On or after January 1, 2012, each home health agency, prior to extending an offer of employment to an applicant for employment with the agency, shall require such applicant to submit to a comprehensive background check. In addition, each home health agency shall require that any such applicant complete and sign a form disclosing whether the applicant was subject to any decision imposing disciplinary action by a licensing agency in any state, the District of Columbia, a United States possession or territory or a foreign jurisdiction. Any applicant who makes a false statement regarding such prior disciplinary action with intent to mislead the home health agency shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.(c) The provisions of this section shall cease to be effective on the date the Commissioner of Public Health publishes notice in the Connecticut Law Journal of the department's implementation of the criminal history and patient abuse background search program for home health agencies in accordance with the provisions of section 19a-491c.(P.A. 11-242, S. 95.)History: P.A. 11-242 effective January 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-492 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-492 - Regulations re qualifications of home health care administrators employed as such on January 1, 1981.

 Section 19a-492 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(P.A. 81-116; P.A. 82-472, S. 70, 183; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-195, S. 149, 181; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-492a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-492a - Disclosures by home health care agencies.

 Whenever a home health care agency, licensed pursuant to this chapter, contracts or arranges for services for a patient under the care of the agency or whenever such agency refers a patient, under its care, for home health services as defined in subsection (d) of section 19a-490, the agency shall inform the patient or the patient's legally liable representative, in writing, at the time of such contract, arrangement or referral of the Medicare and Medicaid certification status of the agency or service provider which will provide the requested services.(P.A. 91-88.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-492b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-492b - Home health care agencies. Discrimination against persons receiving aid. Prohibition. Penalties.

 (a) A home health care agency that receives payment for rendering care to persons receiving medical assistance from the state, assistance from the Connecticut home-care program for the elderly pursuant to section 17b-342, or funds obtained through Title XVIII of the Social Security Amendments of 1965 shall be prohibited from discriminating against such persons who apply for enrollment to such home health care agency on the basis of source of payment.(b) Any home health care agency which violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to suspension or revocation of license.(P.A. 93-415, S. 6; P.A. 01-195, S. 150, 181; P.A. 04-76, S. 27.)History: P.A. 01-195 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 04-76 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “general assistance medical benefits from a town”.