Title 19a — Title 19a: Public Health and Well-Being

Sec. 19a-552. (Formerly Sec. 19-623b). Failure to comply with section 19a-551: Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any provision of section 19a-551 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. (b) Any resident of a nursing home or residential care home or such resident's legally …

Sec. 19a-553. (Formerly Sec. 19-624). Disclosure of crimes required. Penalty. (a) Each nursing home administrator shall submit or cause to be submitted to the appropriate local law enforcement agency a detailed statement regarding any alleged commission of any crime or criminal a…

Sec. 19a-554. (Formerly Sec. 19-625). Attorney General to assign assistant to Commissioner of Public Health. The Attorney General shall assign an assistant attorney general to advise and assist the commissioner on legal matters relating to the administration of sections 17a-876, …

Sec. 19a-555. (Formerly Sec. 19-626). Chronic and convalescent nursing homes. Medical director. Personal physicians. (a) There shall be a medical director for each chronic and convalescent nursing home. The medical director shall be a person licensed to practice medicine and surg…

Secs. 19a-556 to 19a-558. (Formerly Secs. 19-626a to 19-626c). Commission on Long-Term Care; membership. Coordinator; powers and duties. Complaint and investigation procedure. Sections 19a-556 to 19a-558, inclusive, are repealed. (P.A. 80-409, S. 1–3, 6; P.A. 83-337, S. 1, 2, 4, …

Sec. 19a-559. (Formerly Sec. 19-626d). Advisory board. Membership. Duties. Section 19a-559 is repealed, effective June 7, 1994. (P.A. 80-409, S. 4, 6; P.A. 83-337, S. 3, 5; P.A. 90-237, S. 1, 3; P.A. 94-167, S. 3, 4.)

Sec. 19a-560. Disclosure of Medicaid and Medicare participation and advance payment and deposit requirements by nursing homes. (a) Each nursing home shall post in a prominent location a clearly legible sign stating (1) whether the nursing home has a provider agreement with the st…

Sec. 19a-561. Nursing facility management services. Certification. Initial applications and biennial renewals. Investigation. Disciplinary action. (a) As used in this section, (1) “nursing facility management services” means services provided in a nursing facility to manage the o…

Sec. 19a-562. Dementia special care units or programs. Definitions. Disclosure requirements. (a) As used in this section and section 19a-562a, “dementia special care unit or program” means any nursing facility, residential care home, assisted living facility, adult congregate liv…

Sec. 19a-562a. Training requirements for nursing home facility and dementia special care unit or program staff. (a) Each nursing home facility that is not a residential care home or a dementia special care unit or program shall (1) annually provide a minimum of two hours of train…

Sec. 19a-562b. Staff training and education on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms and care. Each home health agency, residential care home and assisted living services agency, as those terms are defined in section 19a-490, and each licensed hospice care organization operat…

Secs. 19a-562c to 19a-562e. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 19a-562f. Nursing home facility staffing levels. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 19a-562g and 19a-562h: (1) “Nurse” means an advanced practice registered nurse, registered nurse or licensed practical nurse licensed pursuant to chapter 378; (2) “Advanced pra…

Sec. 19a-562g. Calculation of nurses and nurse's aides providing direct patient care. Daily posting. Public availability of information. (a) Each nursing home facility shall calculate on a daily basis, for the purposes of posting the information required under subsection (b) of t…

Sec. 19a-562h. Failure to comply with nursing home facility staffing level requirement. Disciplinary action and citation. Posting and inclusion in Department of Public Health listing. (a) If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that a nursing home facility has substantially fa…

Sec. 19a-563. Nursing homes and dementia special care units. Infection prevention and control specialists. Definitions. Requirements. (a) As used in this section and sections 19a-563a to 19a-563h, inclusive: (1) “Nursing home” means any chronic and convalescent nursing home or an…

Sec. 19a-563a. Provision of emergency plan of operations by nursing homes and dementia special care units to their political subdivision of this state. On or before January 1, 2022, the administrative head of each nursing home and each dementia special care unit shall provide its…

Sec. 19a-563b. Nursing homes. Personal protective equipment requirements. Process for evaluating, provision of feedback on, approval and distribution of personal protective equipment in a public health emergency. (a) The administrative head of each nursing home shall ensure that …

Sec. 19a-563c. Nursing homes. Staff member or contracted professional licensed or certified to start an intravenous line. Requirement. The administrative head of each nursing home shall ensure that there is at least one staff member or contracted professional licensed or certifie…

Sec. 19a-563d. Nursing homes. Infection prevention and control committee requirements. Each nursing home's infection prevention and control committee shall meet (1) at least monthly, and (2) during an outbreak of an infectious disease, daily, provided daily meetings do not cause …

Sec. 19a-563e. Nursing homes. Testing of staff and residents during an infectious disease outbreak. Each nursing home shall, during an outbreak of an infectious disease, test staff and residents of the nursing home for the infectious disease at a frequency determined by the Depar…

Sec. 19a-563f. Nursing homes and dementia special care units. Establishment and duties of family council. Definition. On or before January 1, 2022, the administrative head of each nursing home and dementia special care unit shall encourage the establishment of a family council an…

Sec. 19a-563g. Nursing homes. Resident care plans. (a) On or before January 1, 2022, the administrative head of each nursing home shall ensure that each resident's care plan includes the following: (1) Measures to address the resident's social, emotional and mental health needs, …

Sec. 19a-563h. Nursing homes. Minimum staffing level requirements. Regulations. (a) As used in this section, “direct care” means hands-on care provided by a registered nurse, licensed pursuant to chapter 378, licensed practical nurse, licensed pursuant to chapter 378, or a nurse'…

Sec. 19a-564. Assisted living services agencies. Licensure. Dementia special care approval. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall license assisted living services agencies, as defined in section 19a-490. A managed residential community wishing to provide assist…

Sec. 19a-564a. Assisted living services agencies. Licensure to operate or provide services at managed residential community. Commissioner of Public Health notification to State Ombudsman. Not later than thirty days after granting licensure to an assisted living services agency th…

Sec. 19a-564b. Managed residential communities. Notification required re operator or assisted living services agency changes. Each managed residential community shall provide not less than thirty days' notice to its residents and residents' legal representatives before (1) the op…

Sec. 19a-565. (Formerly Sec. 19a-30). Clinical laboratories, blood collection facilities and source plasma donation centers. Regulation and licensure. Proficiency standards for tests not performed in laboratories. Prohibitions. Penalties. Regulations. (a) As used in this section,…

Sec. 19a-565a. (Formerly Sec. 19a-30a). Reporting of clinical laboratory errors. (a) Each clinical laboratory, licensed pursuant to section 19a-565, which discovers a medical error made in the performance or reporting of any test or examination performed by the laboratory shall p…

Sec. 19a-565b. (Formerly Sec. 19a-31). Clinical laboratories to analyze chiropractic specimens. Any licensed clinical laboratory in this state shall accept or obtain specimens for analysis at the request of any chiropractic physician licensed under the provisions of chapter 372. …

Sec. 19a-565c. (Formerly Sec. 19a-31b). Hair follicle drug testing by clinical laboratories. No clinical laboratory, as defined in section 19a-490, that offers hair follicle drug testing as part of its array of diagnostic testing services shall refuse to administer a hair follicl…

Sec. 19a-566. Birth centers. Licensure. Regulations. (a) On and after January 1, 2024, no person, entity, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association shall establish, conduct, operate or maintain a birth center, as defined in section 19a-490, in this …

Sec. 19a-567. Adverse credentialing or privileging action based on provision of reproductive health care services prohibited. (a) As used in this section, (1) “credentialing” means the process of assessing and validating the qualifications of a health care provider applying to be…