SB 5629 - DIGEST |
Requires the department of health to convene a stakeholders meeting to review certain recommendations and determine which methods are in use now in the state, and which will best reduce boarding practices in hospitals. |
Requires hospitals to provide the department of health with data on their emergency department boarding rates and current activities aimed at reducing boarding at their facilities. |
Subjects hospitals, that experience boarding and overcrowding, to a fine of five hundred dollars per patient held per day. |