HB 1901-S2.E - DIGEST
(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 3/04/11)

Modifies provisions relating to delivery of long-term care services.

Revises boarding home licensing requirements.

Requires boarding homes to provide nonresidents with a disclosure statement upon admission and at the time that additional services are requested by a nonresident.

Requires the state board of nursing home administrators to define by rule the parameters for on-site full-time administrators in nursing homes with small resident populations when the nursing home has converted some of its licensed nursing facility bed capacity for use as assisted living or enhanced assisted living services.

Authorizes nursing facilities to provide telephone or web-based transitional care management services to persons discharged from the facility to home for up to thirty days postdischarge.

Requires the department of social and health services to convene a work group to discuss and identify one or more mechanisms to incentivize nursing facilities to close or to eliminate licensed beds from active service.