Legislation
- Title
- Hospitals - Designation of Lay Caregivers
- Sponsored by
- Delegates Cullison, Angel, Kelly, Kipke, McMillan, Miele, Morgan, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Saab, Sample-Hughes, West, K. Young, Hammen, Barron, Bromwell, Hayes, Hill, Krebs, McDonough, Morhaim, Pendergrass, and Rose
- Status
- Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377
- Analysis
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)
Synopsis
Requiring a hospital to provide a patient or the legal guardian of a patient with an opportunity to designate a lay caregiver before the patient is discharged from the hospital; requiring a hospital to document the decision to not designate a lay caregiver by a patient or the legal guardian of a patient in the patient's medical record; requiring a hospital to request consent from a patient or the legal guardian of a patient to release medical information to a lay caregiver; etc.
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19-301, 19-380 through 19-385 )
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