Bill Text: CT HB05322 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Pressure-redistribution Mattresses And Patient Care In Nursing Home Facilities.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-21 - File Number 62 [HB05322 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05322-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5322
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 1060
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Referred to Committee on Public Health
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING PRESSURE REDISTRIBUTION MATTRESSES AND PATIENT CARE IN NURSING HOME FACILITIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 19a-521b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):

(a) In each licensed chronic and convalescent nursing home, chronic disease hospital associated with a chronic and convalescent nursing home, rest home with nursing supervision and residential care home, at least a three-foot clearance shall be provided at the sides and the foot of each bed.

(b) On and after January 1, 2013, whenever a licensed chronic and convalescent nursing home, chronic disease hospital associated with a chronic and convalescent nursing home, rest home with nursing supervision or residential care home replaces a mattress, the replacement mattress shall be a pressure-redistribution mattress that is designed to help prevent pressure ulcers. Not later than October 1, 2015, each such facility shall replace all mattresses used in the facility with pressure-redistribution mattresses.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2012	19a-521b

Statement of Purpose:

To require nursing homes to use pressure redistribution mattresses to help prevent residents from getting pressure ulcers.

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