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

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…

Secs. 19a-4a to 19a-4c. Transferred to Chapter 319j, Secs. 17a-674 to 17a-676, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-4i. Office of Injury Prevention. There shall be, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Injury Prevention, whose purpose shall be to coordinate and expand prevention and control activities related to intentional and unintentional injuries. The duties of sai…

Sec. 19a-4j. Office of Health Equity. (a) There is established, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Health Equity. The responsibility of the office is to improve the health of all Connecticut residents by working to eliminate differences in disease, disability an…

Sec. 19a-4k. Advisory Commission on Multicultural Health. Section 19a-4k is repealed, effective June 12, 2008. (P.A. 00-216, S. 11, 28; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-1, S. 14, 46; P.A. 08-171, S. 2.)

Sec. 19a-4l. Office of Oral Public Health. There is established, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Oral Public Health. The director of the Office of Oral Public Health shall be (1) a dental health professional with experience in public health and a license to p…

Sec. 19a-5. (Formerly Sec. 19-4). Powers and duties of commissioner. Section 19a-5 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993. (1949, Rev., S. 3801; 1959, P.A. 148, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 282; 1972, P.A. 108, S. 4; P.A. 73-616, S. 14; P.A. 76-436, S. 374, 681; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 342, 610; P…

Sec. 19a-50. (Formerly Sec. 19-20). Children with physical disabilities or cardiac defects. Payment of “clean claims”. (a) The Department of Public Health is designated as the state agency to (1) administer a program of services for children with physical disabilities or who are …

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…

Sec. 19a-503. (Formerly Sec. 19-586). Authority re establishment, conduct, management or operation of institution without a license or nursing facility management services without a certificate. Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the Department of Publi…

Sec. 19a-504. (Formerly Sec. 19-587). Removal of bodies of deceased persons from presence of patients in hospitals, residential care homes and rest homes. The Department of Public Health shall adopt such regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, pertaining to the prompt removal…

Sec. 19a-504a. Continuation or removal of life support system. Determination of death. (a) For the purpose of this section, “life support system” means any mechanical or electronic device utilized by any medical facility in order to replace, assist or supplement the function of a…

Sec. 19a-504b. Home health care for elderly persons. Each licensed hospital or outpatient surgical facility where a one-day ambulatory surgical or invasive diagnostic procedure as defined by the Connecticut Peer Review Organization has been performed on a person who is sixty-five…

Sec. 19a-504c. Regulations re standards for hospital discharge planning. Caregiver designation and training. (a) For purposes of this section and section 19a-504e: (1) “Caregiver” means any individual who a patient designates as a caregiver to provide post-discharge assistance to…

Sec. 19a-504d. Hospital discharge plans; options of home health care and hospice agencies required. (a) If a hospital recommends home health care to a patient, the hospital discharge plan shall include two or more available options of home health care agencies or hospice agencies…

Sec. 19a-504e. Requirements and construction of sections re hospital discharge planning and caregiver designation and services. (a) Nothing in section 19a-504c or this section shall be construed to create a private right of action against a hospital, a hospital employee, or any c…

Sec. 19a-505. (Formerly Sec. 19-588). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Maternity hospitals; license; inspection. (a) No person shall keep a maternity hospital or lying-in place unless such person has previously obtained a license therefor, issued by the D…

Sec. 19a-505a. Hospital to provide forms for birth certificate and affidavit of parentage to parents of child born out of wedlock. Upon the birth of a child born out of wedlock, the hospital or such other institution where such birth occurs shall provide an opportunity for the mo…

Sec. 19a-506. (Formerly Sec. 19-589). Licensing of maternity homes. Fees. Section 19a-506 is repealed, effective July 1, 2009. (1959, P.A. 658; P.A. 76-436, S. 378, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 69, 125; 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127; P.A. 83-121, S. 1, 2; P.A. 89-339, S. 3,…

Sec. 19a-507. (Formerly Sec. 19-589a). New Horizons independent living facility for severely physically disabled adults. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 368z, New Horizons, Inc., a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization, or a subsidiary organization controlled by New …

Sec. 19a-507a. (Formerly Sec. 19a-80a). Community residences for adults impacted by mental health disorder. Definitions. As used in section 8-3g and sections 19a-507a to 19a-507d, inclusive: (1) “Adult impacted by mental health disorder” means any adult who experiences symptoms o…

Sec. 19a-507b. (Formerly Sec. 19a-80b). Establishment of community residence. Limitations. Petitions. (a) No community residence, as defined in section 19a-507a, except a community residence that houses eight or fewer persons receiving mental health or addiction services and nece…

Sec. 19a-507c. (Formerly Sec. 19a-80c). Evaluation of community residences. Section 19a-507c is repealed, effective July 1, 2019. (P.A. 84-341, S. 4, 8; P.A. 85-613, S. 43, 154; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 12, 21, 58; P.A. 19-118, S. 78.)

Sec. 19a-507d. (Formerly Sec. 19a-80d). Petition for revocation of license of community residence. Any resident of a municipality in which a community residence is located may, with the approval of the legislative body of such municipality, petition the Commissioner of Public Hea…