Legislation
- Title
- Hospitals - Patient's Bill of Rights
- Sponsored by
- Delegates K. Young, Bagnall, Barron, Bhandari, Brooks, Cullison, Dumais, Fraser-Hidalgo, Healey, Hill, Jalisi, Jones, Kelly, Kerr, Kipke, Korman, R. Lewis, Lierman, Lisanti, McIntosh, Metzgar, Sample-Hughes, Shetty, P. Young, Pendergrass, Pena-Melnyk, Carr, Charles, Johnson, Krebs, Rosenberg, and Szeliga
- Status
- Approved by the Governor - Chapter 285
- Analysis
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)
Synopsis
Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with an interpreter, a translator, or other accommodation to provide assistance to patients; requiring each administrator of a hospital to conspicuously post the patient's bill of rights on the hospital's website and in areas of the hospital accessible to patients and visitors; requiring the Department of Health to submit a certain report by January 1, 2021; etc.
Committees
- Opposite:
- Finance
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19-342 )
Last Updated: 2/3/2020 2:29 PM