Bill Text: HI HB2275 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Home Health Agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-07 - The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2275 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2275-Introduced.html
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2275 |
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to home health agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§321- Home health agencies; complaint registry. (a)
The department of health shall establish and maintain a complaint
registry that contains a record of all complaints filed with the department against
home health agencies licensed by the State.
(b) The department shall make the registry
available for public access on the office of health care assurance's website.
(c) The department of health shall adopt rules
pursuant to chapter 91 to implement this section.
(d) As used in this section, "home health
agency" means a public or proprietary agency, a private nonprofit
organization, or a subdivision of the agency or organization that is primarily
engaged in providing direct or indirect skilled nursing services and other
therapeutic services under a physician's direction to homebound patients on a
part-time or intermittent basis in a place used as the individual's home."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Home Health Agencies; Department of Health; Complaint Registry
Description:
Requires the Department of Health to establish and maintain a complaint registry that contains a record of all complaints filed against home health agencies licensed by the State and post the registry on the Office of Health Care Assurance's website.
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