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Ch. 218
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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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CHAPTER 218
(Senate Bill 690)
AN ACT concerning
Nursing Homes - Quality Assurance
FOR the purpose of requiring a nursing home, as a condition of licensure by a certain
date, to establish and implement a quality assurance program that meets
certain requirements and is approved by the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene; requiring a nursing home to employ a quality assurance nurse
designate a qualified individual to manage and monitor the quality of care in
the nursing home and a medical director; requiring the designation of a medical
director; requiring a nursing home to establish a Quality Assurance Committee
that must review and approve annually a quality assurance plan; defining
certain terms; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, in
consultation with certain entities, to define the role of the medical director for a
nursing home; prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene from
requiring the disclosure of certain records and reports; authorizing the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to impose certain sanctions under
certain circumstances; requiring each nursing home to display certain notice;
requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations that
will provide for medical staff physician accountability; requiring the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene to create a technical assistance unit; authorizing
the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to partially reimburse a nursing
home for installing certain automated health systems; authorizing the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain regulations; requiring a nursing
home to give notice and establish certain procedures in -the event of injury,
closure, or loss of funds under certain circumstances: and generally relating to
quality assurance in nursing homes.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1401 through 19-1403 and 19-1405 through 19-1409 to be under
the amended subtitle "Subtitle 14. Nursing Homes"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1404
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1410 through 19-1415
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