Bill Text: NJ A4856 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires Commissioner of Health to designate special care nursing facility to treat patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders dual diagnosis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A4856 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A4856-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 4856

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 18, 2017

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Assemblyman  JOHN F. MCKEON

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Commissioner of Health to designate a special care nursing facility to treat patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders dual diagnosis.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning special care nursing facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The Commissioner of Health shall designate at least one existing free-standing special care nursing facility that is located in a city of the first class as a facility for the treatment of patients who are dually diagnosed with psychiatric and substance use disorders.  A special care nursing facility seeking designation shall apply to the commissioner for designation and shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the facility can provide appropriate care to patients with a dual diagnosis.

 

     2.    The Commissioner of Health may, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt any rules and regulations as the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month next following the date of enactment, except that the Commissioner of Health may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Commissioner of Health to designate at least one existing free-standing special care nursing facility that is located in a city of the first class as a facility for the treatment of patients who are dually diagnosed with psychiatric and substance use disorders.  A facility seeking designation would apply to the commissioner for designation, and would need to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the facility can provide appropriate care to patients with a dual diagnosis.

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