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

Sec. 19a-490s. Health care employer: Report of assault or related offense to local law enforcement agency. Except as provided in this section, a health care employer shall report to such employer's local law enforcement agency any act which may constitute an assault or related of…

Sec. 19a-490t. Community health centers. Program to provide financial assistance. Report. Section 19a-490t is repealed, effective July 1, 2015. (P.A. 13-234, S. 141; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 520.)

Sec. 19a-490u. Training in symptoms of dementia, implicit bias and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders for hospital direct care staff. (a) Each hospital, as defined in section 19a-490, shall include training in the symptoms of dementia as part of such hospital's regularly provid…

Sec. 19a-490v. Removal of a delivered placenta from a hospital. (a) Except for the portion of a delivered placenta that is necessary for an examination described in subsection (d) of this section, a hospital may allow a woman who has given birth in the hospital, or a spouse of th…

Sec. 19a-490w. Certification of hospital as comprehensive stroke center, primary stroke center, thrombectomy-capable stroke center or acute stroke-ready hospital. (a) Not later than October 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, any hospital that has been certified as a comprehensive …

Sec. 19a-490x. List of comprehensive stroke centers, primary stroke centers and acute stroke-ready centers. Submission and maintenance. Nationally recognized standardized stroke triage tool and prehospital care protocols re assessment, treatment and transport of stoke patients. R…

Sec. 19a-490y. Tuberculosis screening, testing, treatment and education policies for health care facilities. A health care facility licensed pursuant to this chapter shall have policies and procedures in place that reflect the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's…

Sec. 19a-490z. Remote access to patient records for quality improvement audits by Department of Public Health. A hospital shall provide the Department of Public Health with access, including remote access, to the entirety of a patient's medical record, as the department deems nec…

Sec. 19a-491. (Formerly Sec. 19-577). License and certificate required. Application. Assessment of civil penalties or a consent order. Fees. Minimum service quality standards. Regulations. Professional liability insurance. Prohibition. Maintenance of medical records. (a) No perso…

Sec. 19a-491a. Information required for nursing home license. Professional liability insurance requirements. Procedure upon failure to provide information. (a) A person seeking a license to establish, conduct, operate or maintain a nursing home shall provide the Department of Pub…

Sec. 19a-491b. Notification of criminal conviction or disciplinary action. Civil penalty. False statements. Criminal history records checks. (a) Any person who is licensed to establish, conduct, operate or maintain a nursing home or residential care home shall notify the Commissi…

Sec. 19a-491c. Criminal history and patient abuse background search program. Regulations. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Criminal history and patient abuse background search” or “background search” means (A) a review of the registry of nurse's aides maintained by the Departmen…

Sec. 19a-491d. Prospective employees of home health agency to submit to comprehensive background check. Disclosure re prior disciplinary action. (a) As used in this section, “comprehensive background check” means a background investigation performed by a home health agency, as de…

Sec. 19a-491e. Home health agency contracts. Prohibition on no-hire clauses, penalties. (a) As used in this section, (1) “home health agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 19a-490, and (2) “no-hire clause” means a provision of a contract between a home health agency…

Sec. 19a-491f. Collection and provision of certain client and location information to home health care agency and home health aide agency employees. Collection of crime-related data. Prohibition on the denial of the provision of services. (a) Each home health care agency and home…

Sec. 19a-491g. Health and safety training curriculum and monthly assessments with direct care staff by home health care agencies and home health aide agencies. Evidence required for reimbursement. Rate enhancement for timely reporting of workplace violence incident. (a) Each home…

Sec. 19a-491h. Annual report by home health care agencies and home health aide agencies re incidences of client abuse of staff member and actions taken by the agency to ensure safety of staff member. Annual report by commissioner. (a) Not later than January 1, 2025, and annually …

Sec. 19a-491i. Rest home with nursing supervision licensure discontinued. One-time licensure renewal authorized. The Commissioner of Public Health shall not grant any new license to establish, conduct or operate a rest home with nursing supervision on and after June 4, 2024. Notw…

Sec. 19a-492. Regulations re qualifications of home health care administrators employed as such on January 1, 1981. Section 19a-492 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 81-116; P.A. 82-472, S. 70, 183; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-195, S. 14…

Sec. 19a-492a. Disclosures by home health care agencies. Whenever a home health care agency, licensed pursuant to this chapter, contracts or arranges for services for a patient under the care of the agency or whenever such agency refers a patient, under its care, for home health …

Sec. 19a-492b. Home health care and hospice agencies. Discrimination against persons receiving aid. Prohibition. Penalties. (a) A home health care agency or hospice agency that receives payment for rendering care to persons receiving medical assistance from the state, assistance …

Sec. 19a-492c. Home health care and hospice agencies. Waiver for provision of hospice services. (a) For purposes of this section, “rural town” means towns having either seventy-five per cent or more of their population classified as rural in the 1990 federal decennial census of p…

Sec. 19a-492d. Vaccinations and medication administered by nurses employed by home health care agency, hospice agency or home health agency. On and after October 1, 2007, a nurse who is employed by an agency licensed by the Department of Public Health as a home health care agency…

Sec. 19a-492e. Delegation of medication administration by registered nurse to home health aides and hospice aides. Regulations. (a) For purposes of this section “home health care agency” and “hospice agency” have the same meanings as provided in section 19a-490. Notwithstanding t…

Sec. 19a-492f. Disposal of controlled substances for hospice and hospice care programs. Each hospice and hospice care program licensed under section 19a-122b that provides hospice home care services for terminally ill persons shall dispose of any controlled substance, as defined …

Sec. 19a-492g. Encouragement of hospice nursing staff to spend three weeks each in pediatric intensive care unit, pediatric oncology unit and pediatric hospice facility. Not later than July 1, 2025, and at the time of hiring of each new member of its nursing staff, each organizat…

Sec. 19a-492h. Home health care, home health aide and hospice agencies. Submittal of employee information for inclusion in home care provider registry. Each home health care agency, home health aide agency and hospice agency, as such terms are defined in section 19a-490, shall su…

Sec. 19a-492i. Home health care, home health aide and hospice agencies. Employee identification badges required. Each home health care agency, home health aide agency and hospice agency, as defined in section 19a-490, shall require each agency employee to wear an identification b…

Sec. 19a-493. (Formerly Sec. 19-578). Initial license and renewal. Prior approval for change in ownership. Multicare institution. Regulations. (a) Upon receipt of an application for an initial license, the Department of Public Health, subject to the provisions of section 19a-491a…

Sec. 19a-493a. Evaluation of certain new licensees. If a person who has no record of operating a nursing home in this state acquires one or more nursing homes and is issued a license or licenses pursuant to section 19a-493, the Commissioner of Public Health may prescribe a period…

Sec. 19a-493b. Outpatient surgical facilities. Definition. Licensure and exceptions. Certificate of need. Waiver. (a) As used in this section and subsection (a) of section 19a-490, “outpatient surgical facility” means any entity, individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limite…

Sec. 19a-493c. Outpatient clinics. Licensure. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall license outpatient clinics, as defined in section 19a-490. (b) The commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisio…

Sec. 19a-493d. Urgent care centers. Licensure as outpatient clinic. Policies, procedures and regulations. Rates of payments to providers. Identification of freestanding emergency departments. Regulations. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Outpatient clinic” means an organiza…

Sec. 19a-494. (Formerly Sec. 19-579). Disciplinary action. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health, after a hearing held in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, may take any of the following actions, singly or in combination, in any case in which the commissioner finds tha…

Sec. 19a-494a. Emergency summary orders. If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that the health, safety or welfare of any patient or patients served by an institution, as defined in section 19a-490, imperatively requires emergency action and the commissioner incorporates a fi…

Sec. 19a-495. (Formerly Sec. 19-580). Regulations re licensed institutions. Implementation of policies and procedures re medications. (a) The Department of Public Health shall, after consultation with the appropriate public and voluntary hospital planning agencies, establish clas…

Sec. 19a-495a. Unlicensed assistive personnel in residential care homes. Certification re administration of medication. Regulations. Nonnursing duties. (a)(1) The Commissioner of Public Health may adopt regulations, as provided in subsection (d) of this section, to require each r…

Sec. 19a-495b. Residential care homes. Operational requirements. Conforming amendments to the Public Health Code. (a) A residential care home that is colocated with a chronic and convalescent nursing home or a rest home with nursing supervision may request permission of the Depar…

Sec. 19a-495c. Methadone delivery and related substance use treatment services to persons in a nursing home facility. A substance abuse treatment facility licensed as an institution pursuant to section 19a-490 and providing medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction shall…

Sec. 19a-496. (Formerly Sec. 19-581). Compliance with regulations. Inspections. Plan of correction. Disciplinary action. (a) An institution which is in operation at the time of the adoption of any regulations under section 19a-495, shall be given a reasonable time within which to…

Sec. 19a-496a. Home health care, hospice home health care and home health aide agency services. Authorized practitioners in bordering states. Applicable regulations, policies, procedures. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies, all home…

Sec. 19a-497. Filing of strike contingency plan. Summary order. Civil penalty: Notification and hearing requirement. Regulations. Collective bargaining implications. (a) Each institution shall, upon receipt of a notice of intention to strike by a labor organization representing t…

Sec. 19a-498. (Formerly Sec. 19-582). Inspections, investigations, examinations and audits. Retention of records. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 19a-493, the Department of Public Health shall make or cause to be made a biennial licensure inspection of all institutions a…

Sec. 19a-498a. Discriminatory practices prohibited. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Discriminate” and “discriminatory treatment” with regard to an employee of a health care facility includes discharge, demotion, suspension, or any other detrimental changes in terms or condition…

Sec. 19a-498b. Nursing homes. Admission of residents who have been administered a level two assessment. Annual survey by Department of Public Health to include comparison between recommended services and actual services. Responsibilities of nursing home administrators and Departm…

Sec. 19a-498c. Discriminatory practice for nursing home to reject applicant for admission solely on basis that applicant has received mental health services. (a) As used in this section, (1) “direct threat” has the same meaning as provided in 28 CFR 35.104, as amended from time t…

Sec. 19a-499. (Formerly Sec. 19-583). Information to be confidential. Exceptions. (a) Information received by the Department of Public Health through filed reports, inspection or as otherwise authorized under this chapter, shall not be disclosed publicly in such manner as to iden…

Sec. 19a-500. Penalty for material false statement. Any person who makes any material false statement in any document or record which an institution licensed by the Department of Public Health is required to submit to such department or maintain on file shall be guilty of false s…

Sec. 19a-501. (Formerly Sec. 19-584). Appeal. Any person who is a holder of a license or certificate, or the state, acting through the Attorney General, aggrieved by any decision of the Department of Public Health after a hearing, or any applicant whose license or certificate is …

Sec. 19a-502. (Formerly Sec. 19-585). Penalty for operating without license or owning property without certificate. Revocation or suspension of license for failure to yield financial information. (a) Any person establishing, conducting, managing or operating any institution witho…