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CT Gen Stat § 19a-486h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-486h - Sale of nonprofit hospitals: Construction of governing law.

 Nothing in sections 19a-486 to 19a-486h, inclusive, shall be construed to limit: (1) The common law or statutory authority of the Attorney General; (2) the statutory authority of the Commissioner of Public Health including, but not limited to, licensing; (3) the statutory authority of the executive director of the Office of Health Strategy, including, but not limited to, certificate of need authority; or (4) the application of the doctrine of cy pres or approximation.(P.A. 97-188, S. 9, 10; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 35; P.A. 18-91, S. 55.)History: P.A. 97-188 effective June 26, 1997; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subdiv. (2) by deleting reference to authority of Commissioner of the Office of Health Care Access, effective October 6, 2009; P.A. 18-91 amended Subdiv. (2) by deleting reference to certificate of need authority, added new Subdiv. (3) re statutory authority of executive director of Office of Health Strategy, including, certificate of need authority, and redesignated existing Subdiv. (3) re doctrine of cy pres as Subdiv. (4), effective May 14, 2018.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-487 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-487 - Mobile field hospital: Defined, board of directors.

 (a) “Mobile field hospital” means a modular, transportable facility used intermittently, deployed at the discretion of the Governor, or the Governor's designee, (1) for the provision of medical services at a mass gathering; (2) for the purpose of training or in the event of a public health or other emergency for isolation care purposes or triage and treatment during a mass-casualty event; or (3) for providing surge capacity for a hospital during a mass-casualty event or infrastructure failure.(b) There is established a board of directors to advise the Department of Public Health on the operations of the mobile field hospital. The board shall consist of the following members: The Commissioners of Public Health, Emergency Services and Public Protection and Social Services, or their designees, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary's designee, the Adjutant General, or the Adjutant General's designee, one representative of a hospital in this state with more than five hundred licensed beds and one representative of a hospital in this state with five hundred or fewer licensed beds, both appointed by the Commissioner of Public Health. The Commissioner of Public Health shall be the chairperson of the board. The board shall adopt bylaws and shall meet at such times as specified in such bylaws and at such other times as the Commissioner of Public Health deems necessary.(c) The board shall advise the department on matters, including, but not limited to: Operating policies and procedures; facility deployment and operation; appropriate utilization of the facility; clinical programs and delivery of patient health care services; hospital staffing patterns and staff-to-patient ratios; human resources policies; standards and accreditation guidelines; credentialing of clinical and support staff; patient admission, transfer and discharge policies and procedures; quality assurance and performance improvement; patient rates and billing and reimbursement mechanisms; staff education and training requirements and alternative facility uses.(P.A. 05-280, S. 57; P.A. 07-252, S. 65; P.A. 10-117, S. 33; P.A. 11-51, S. 158.)History: P.A. 05-280 effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 07-252 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “mobile field hospital” for “critical access hospital”, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 10-117 added new Subsec. (a) defining “mobile field hospital” and redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) and (b) as Subsecs. (b) and (c); P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing reference to Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and Commissioner of Public Safety with reference to Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-487a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-487a - Mobile field hospital: Certificate of need exemption for hospital beds and related equipment.

 Any additional mobile field hospital beds and related equipment obtained for the purpose of enhancing the state's bed surge capacity or providing isolation care under the state's public health preparedness planning and response activities shall be exempt from the provisions of subsection (a) of section 19a-638.(P.A. 05-280, S. 59; P.A. 07-252, S. 66; P.A. 10-179, S. 115.)History: P.A. 05-280 effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 07-252 substituted “mobile field hospital beds” for “critical access hospital beds”, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 10-179 deleted “subdivision (2) of” re Sec. 19a-638(a).
CT Gen Stat § 19a-487b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-487b - Mobile field hospital: Regulations.

 The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to implement mobile field hospital policies and procedures for isolation care and emergency services.(P.A. 05-280, S. 67; P.A. 07-252, S. 67.)History: P.A. 05-280 effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 07-252 substituted “mobile field hospital” for “critical access hospital”, effective July 12, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490a - “Community health center” defined.

 As used in sections 17b-349, 19a-7e and 19a-59b, “community health center” means a public or nonprofit private medical care facility which (1) is not part of a hospital and is organized and operated to provide comprehensive primary care services; (2) is located in an area which has a demonstrated need for services based on geographic, demographic and economic factors; (3) serves low income, uninsured, minority and elderly persons; (4) makes its services available to individuals regardless of their ability to pay; (5) employs a charge schedule with a discount based on income; (6) provides, on an ongoing basis, primary health services by physicians and, where appropriate, midlevel practitioners, diagnostic laboratory and x-ray services, preventive health services and patient care case management; (7) provides for needed pharmacy services either on-site or through firm arrangement; (8) has at least one-half of the full-time equivalent primary care providers as full-time members of its staff; (9) maintains an ongoing quality assurance program; (10) is a participating title XIX and Medicare provider; (11) has a governing board of at least nine and no more than twenty-five members with authority and responsibility for policy and conduct of the center, the majority of whom are active users of the center and of the nonuser board members, no more than half may derive more than ten per cent of their annual income from the health care industry; (12) provides primary care services at least thirty-two hours per week; and (13) has arrangements for professional coverage during hours when the center is closed.(P.A. 92-129, S. 2; P.A. 93-128; 93-262, S. 80, 87; P.A. 19-118, S. 40.)History: P.A. 93-128 added new Subdiv. (4) re services available regardless of ability to pay, Subdiv. (5) re charges discounted based on income, Subdiv. (7) re pharmacy services, Subdiv. (8) re one-half of full-time equivalent primary care providers to be full-time staff members, renumbering remaining Subdivs. as necessary and amended Subdiv. (11) to provide governing board of at least 8 and no more than 25 members and Subdiv. (12) to provide primary care services at least 32 hours per week; P.A. 93-262 removed reference to Sec. 17-314k, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 19-118 deleted reference to Sec. 19a-7b, effective July 1, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490c - Moratorium on licensing of family care homes.

 Section 19a-490c is repealed, effective July 11, 2001.(P.A. 92-80, S. 2, 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-195, S. 180, 181.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490d - Prevention of accidental needlestick injuries in health care facilities and institutions.

 Each health care facility or institution licensed by the Department of Public Health pursuant to this chapter, if advised by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and each health care facility or institution that employs state employees, except the dental clinics operated by The University of Connecticut Health Center and its divisions, the school of dental medicine of The University of Connecticut and the dental clinics of said school until such time as manufacturers have designed and are making needles that have self-contained secondary precautionary type sheathing devices for dental medicine, shall use only injectable equipment having self-contained secondary precautionary type sheathing devices or alternate devices designed to prevent accidental needlestick injuries. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any drug or biologic product that is prepackaged with an administration system or used in a prefilled syringe and is approved for commercial distribution or investigational use by the federal Food and Drug Administration, provided a sharp object injury protection disposal system is in place.(P.A. 93-278, S. 1, 2; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 00-216, S. 6, 28; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4, S. 29, 58; P.A. 03-252, S. 17.)History: P.A. 93-278 effective July 1, 1994 (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 department of health services was changed editorially by the Revisors to department of public health and addiction services); 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. 00-216 made technical changes, added provision re health care facilities and institutions that employ state employees, and added exception for drugs and biologic products prepackaged with an administration system or used in a prefilled syringe, effective July 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-4 added exception for The University of Connecticut dental school and dental clinics, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-252 made a technical change and exempted dental clinics operated by The University of Connecticut Health Center and its divisions from provisions of section.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490e - Use of E-codes by hospitals, outpatient surgical facilities and outpatient clinics.

 Each hospital, licensed by the Department of Public Health as a short-term general hospital, out-patient surgical facility and out-patient clinic shall include in the record of each trauma patient, the international code for external cause of injuries known as an E-code. Each such facility shall include the E-code on records of inpatients. The Office of Injury Prevention established pursuant to section 19a-4i shall work with such facilities to provide training for medical records personnel concerning the proper use of E-codes.(P.A. 93-269, S. 2, 4; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)History: P.A. 93-269 effective July 1, 1993 (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 department of health services was changed editorially by the Revisors to department of public health and addiction services); 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.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490f - Requirements for reports of treatment of wounds from firearms and stab wounds.

 (a) Each hospital, outpatient surgical facility and outpatient clinic shall report or cause a report to be made to the local police department or the state police of each person treated for a bullet wound, a gunshot wound or any injury arising from the discharge of a firearm or a stab wound that is a serious physical injury likely caused by a knife or other sharp or pointed instrument. Such report shall be made as soon as practicable after the treatment is rendered and shall contain the name and address of the injured person, if known, the nature and extent of the injury and the circumstances under which the treatment was rendered.(b) A report required under subsection (a) of this section shall include:(1) The name, residence, sex and age of the patient;(2) The type of wound the patient received; and(3) The name of each health care provider treating the patient's wound.(c) An employee of the hospital, outpatient surgical facility or outpatient clinic shall ensure that any bullet or other foreign object or clothing showing damage potentially related to the wound removed from any such patient shall be identified as coming from such patient and kept in a manner that preserves the integrity of the item, until an employee of such entity surrenders the item to the local police department or the state police or until the period for retention of such item expires pursuant to such entity's policy for retention of such item, whichever is earlier.(d) Any hospital, outpatient surgical facility or outpatient clinic or employee of any such entity who in good faith, and without gross negligence or wilful or wanton misconduct, makes a report pursuant to this section, cooperates during the course of an investigation or proceeding concerning the reported wound, or preserves an item or surrenders such item to the local police department or state police pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, shall be immune from civil or criminal liability or any action for suspension, revocation or surrender of any professional license, registration or certification held by such entity or employee, arising from or related to the report, cooperation with an investigation or proceeding or the preservation or surrender of any such item.(P.A. 93-269, S. 3, 4; P.A. 16-90, S. 1.)History: P.A. 93-269 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 16-90 designated existing provisions re report of person treated for certain wounds or injuries as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add provision re stab wounds and make a technical change, added Subsec. (b) re information to be included in report, added Subsec. (c) re identification and keeping of items related to wound and added Subsec. (d) re immunity.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490g - Bilingual consumer guide.

 The Department of Public Health shall develop and produce a consumer guide of bilingual information on home health care agencies and home health aide agencies.(P.A. 93-415, S. 8; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-160, S. 11, 69; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-139, S. 12, 13; P.A. 19-97, S. 5.)History: P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of public health and addiction services for commissioner and department of health services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-160 deleted a reference to coordination, assessment and monitoring agencies and made a technical change, effective July 1, 1995; 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. 96-139 changed effective date of P.A. 95-160 but without affecting this section; P.A. 19-97 replaced “homemaker-home health aide agencies” with “home health aide agencies”, effective July 1, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490h - Emergency room screening of trauma patients for substance abuse. Assistance by Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

 (a) Each hospital licensed by the Department of Public Health as a short-term general hospital, outpatient surgical facility or outpatient clinic shall include in the record of each trauma patient a notation indicating the extent and outcome of screening for alcohol and substance abuse. For purposes of this section, “trauma patient” means a patient of sufficient age to be at risk of alcohol and substance abuse with a traumatic injury, as defined in the most recent edition of the International Classification of Disease, who is admitted to the hospital on an inpatient basis, is transferred to or from an acute care setting, dies or requires emergent trauma team activation.(b) Each such hospital shall establish protocols for screening patients for alcohol and substance abuse.(c) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, after consultation with the Department of Public Health, shall assist each hospital required to conduct alcohol and substance abuse screening pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section with the development and implementation of alcohol and substance abuse screening protocols.(P.A. 98-201, S. 2, 3; P.A. 99-172, S. 6, 7; P.A. 06-195, S. 27; P.A. 13-26, S. 3.)History: P.A. 99-172 amended Subsec. (a) to apply to those admitted “on an inpatient basis”, effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 06-195 amended Subsec. (b) by discontinuing submission of hospital alcohol and substance abuse screening protocols to Department of Public Health; P.A. 13-26 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting provision re submission of protocols and report to Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490i - Interpreter services and linguistic access in acute care hospitals.

 Each acute care hospital in this state shall:(1) Develop and annually review a policy on the provision of interpreter services to non-English-speaking patients;(2) Ensure the availability of interpreter services to patients whose primary language is spoken by a group comprising not less than five per cent of the population residing in the geographic area served by the hospital;(3) Prepare and maintain a list of qualified interpreters;(4) Notify hospital staff of the requirement to provide interpreters to non-English-speaking patients;(5) Post multilingual notices of the availability of interpreters to non-English-speaking patients;(6) Review standardized forms to determine the need for translation for use by non-English-speaking patients;(7) Consider providing hospital staff with picture and phrase sheets for communication with non-English-speaking patients; and(8) Establish liaisons to non-English-speaking communities in the geographic area served by the hospital.(P.A. 00-119; P.A. 15-34, S. 1.)History: P.A. 15-34 amended Subdiv. (2) to delete “, to the extent possible,”.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490j - Hospital plans for remediation of medical and surgical errors.

 Each hospital licensed under this chapter shall make available to the Commissioner of Public Health upon request a copy of its plan for the remediation of medical and surgical errors required by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.(P.A. 01-145.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490k - Administration of care and vaccinations to patients by hospital without physician's order. Permitted activities. Regulations.

 (a) A hospital may administer care to patients, after an assessment of contraindications, without a physician's order, in accordance with a physician-approved hospital policy, if such care is emergent, timely and necessary, or for the purpose of advancing patient care, to the extent such care is permitted by 42 CFR Part 482.(b) A hospital may administer any prophylactic care or treatment to healthy newborns who are born at the hospital, or who are admitted to the hospital nursery, after an assessment of contraindications, without a physician's order, in accordance with a physician-approved hospital policy, to the extent such care or treatment is permitted by 42 CFR Part 482.(c) A hospital may administer influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to patients, after an assessment for contraindications, without a physician's order, in accordance with a physician-approved hospital policy. The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of this subsection.(P.A. 04-164, S. 4; P.A. 11-2, S. 1; 11-242, S. 78; P.A. 14-231, S. 28.)History: P.A. 04-164 effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 11-2 added Subsec. (a) re administration of emergent care to patients without physician's order, added Subsec. (b) re administration of prophylactic care or treatment to healthy newborns without physician's order and designated existing provisions as Subsec. (c) and made technical changes to same; P.A. 11-242 changed effective date of P.A. 11-2, S. 1, from October 1, 2011, to July 1, 2011, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (c) by deleting “polysaccharide” re pneumococcal vaccines.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-490l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions|Section 19a-490l - Mandatory limits on overtime for nurses working in hospitals. Exceptions.

 (a) As used in this section:(1) “Nurse” means a registered nurse or a practical nurse licensed pursuant to chapter 378, or a nurse's aide registered pursuant to chapter 378a; and(2) “Hospital” has the same meaning as set forth in section 19a-490.(b) No hospital may require a nurse to work in excess of a predetermined scheduled work shift, provided such scheduled work shift is determined and promulgated not less than forty-eight hours prior to the commencement of such scheduled work shift. Any nurse may volunteer or agree to work hours in addition to such scheduled work shift but the refusal by a nurse to accept such additional hours shall not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge or any other penalty or employment decision adverse to the nurse.(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply: (1) To any nurse participating in a surgical procedure until such procedure is completed; (2) to any nurse working in a critical care unit until such nurse is relieved by another nurse who is commencing a scheduled work shift; (3) in the case of a public health emergency; (4) in the case of an institutional emergency, including, but not limited to, adverse weather conditions, catastrophe or widespread illness, that in the opinion of the hospital administrator will significantly reduce the number of nurses available for a scheduled work shift, provided the hospital administrator has made a good faith effort to mitigate the impact of such institutional emergency on the availability of nurses; or (5) to any nurse who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement that contains provisions addressing the issue of mandatory overtime.(P.A. 04-242, S. 1; P.A. 14-122, S. 119.)History: P.A. 04-242 effective October 1, 2005; P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(2).