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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Ch. 435
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2007.
Approved by the Governor, May 8, 2007.
CHAPTER 436
(House Bill 837)
AN ACT concerning
Nursing Homes—Health Care Quality Disclosure Form—Requirements
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Regulation of Nursing Homes -
Review
FOR the purpose of requiring nursing homes to develop and make available to certain
persons a certain Health Care Quality Disclosure Form; providing for the
purpose of the form; requiring certain forms to be signed by certain persons;
requiring a nursing home to create and maintain certain correspondence files,
providing for the contents of certain files; requiring that certain information in
certain records be deleted; requiring records in regulatory files to be unedited,
providing that certain persons may view certain files at any time; requiring a
nursing home to promptly comply with a request by a licensing authority to
review certain files; requiring certain information to be entered into a certain
database; requiring that certain information be deleted from certain
information entered into a certain database; requiring a certain representative
of a resident to be given a certain passcode to a certain database; defining a
certain term; and generally relating to requirements for a Health Care Quality
Disclosure Form in nursing homes requiring the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, in consultation with certain groups and individuals, to conduct
a certain review; requiring the Department to report to certain committees of
the General Assembly on or before a certain date; and generally relating to the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and a review of the regulation of
nursing homes.
BY renumbering
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1417
to be Section 19-1418
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
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