Bill Text: NJ A4647 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires long-term care facilities to offer residents opportunity to update emergency contact information and to discuss medical needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee [A4647 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4647-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4647

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires long-term care facilities to offer residents opportunity to update emergency contact information and to discuss medical needs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning long-term care facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statues.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  a.  As used in this section:

     "Long-term care facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

     b.  A long-term care facility shall meet at least once annually with each resident and the resident's family to discuss and review:

     (1)   medical needs of the resident that fall within the scope of medical services provided by the long-term care facility; and

     (2)   emergency contact information for the resident on file with the long-term care facility.

     c.  Consistent with federal and State privacy laws, a long-term care facility shall annually offer residents the opportunity to update their emergency contact information with the long-term care facility.  

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires long-term care facilities to offer residents the opportunity to update emergency contact information and to discuss medical needs.

     Under the bill, a long-term care facility is to meet at least once annually with each resident to discuss and review: medical needs of the resident that fall within the scope of medical services provided by the long-term care facility; and emergency contact for the resident on file with the long-term care facility.  Consistent with federal and State privacy laws, a long-term care facility is to annually offer residents the opportunity to update their emergency contact information with the long-term care facility.