SB 5708-S.E - DIGEST |
(DIGEST AS ENACTED) |
Addresses the delivery of long-term care services relating to: (1) Boarding home licensing requirements; |
(2) Additional services for nonresidents; |
(3) On-site full-time administrators for nursing homes that have converted some of their facility for use as assisted living or enhanced assisted living services; and |
(4) Nursing homes that provide telephone or web-based transitional care management services exempt from certain in-home service agency provisions. |
Authorizes nursing homes to provide telephone or web-based transitional care management services to persons discharged from the facility to home for up to thirty days after discharge. |
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. |