Bill Text: FL H4063 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Nursing Home Quality and Licensure Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H4063 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H4063-Introduced.html
HB 4063

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A bill to be entitled
2An act relating to nursing home quality and licensure
3status; amending s. 400.235, F.S.; deleting a criteria for
4recognition as a Gold Seal Program facility; providing an
5effective date.
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7Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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9     Section 1.  Paragraph (g) of subsection (5) of section
10400.235, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph (f) and
11present paragraph (f) of that subsection is amended to read:
12     400.235  Nursing home quality and licensure status; Gold
13Seal Program.-
14     (5)  Facilities must meet the following additional criteria
15for recognition as a Gold Seal Program facility:
16     (f)  Evidence an outstanding record regarding the number
17and types of substantiated complaints reported to the State
18Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council within the 30 months preceding
19application for the program.
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21A facility assigned a conditional licensure status may not
22qualify for consideration for the Gold Seal Program until after
23it has operated for 30 months with no class I or class II
24deficiencies and has completed a regularly scheduled relicensure
25survey.
26     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.


CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.
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