SB 1102 Allows for a patient's designation of a caregiver to provide care following discharge from a hospital or ambulatory surgical center
Sponsor: Silvey
LR Number: 6664S.01I Fiscal Notes
Committee: Veterans' Affairs and Health
Last Action: 3/3/2016 - Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee Journal Page: S507
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Effective Date: August 28, 2016

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SB 1102 - Under this act, the "Caregiver, Advise, Record, and Enable (CARE) Act," a hospital or ambulatory surgical center shall provide each patient or patient's legal guardian with an opportunity to designate a caregiver prior to the patient's discharge. Such designation shall include a written consent of the patient or the patient's legal guardian to release confidential medical information to the designated caregiver if such records are necessary for the provision of after-care. Such caregiver designation, or lack thereof, shall be documented by the hospital or ambulatory surgical center. The hospital or ambulatory surgical center shall notify a patient's caregiver of the patient's discharge or transfer as soon as practicable, and provide the caregiver with the patient's discharge plan or instructions for after-care.

Nothing in this act authorizes or requires compensation of caregivers by a state agency or health carrier. Hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, or employees or contractors of such shall not be liable in any way for the actions of a caregiver. Nothing in this act shall interfere with the rights of an attorney in fact under a durable power of health care.

This act is substantially similar to provisions in HCS/SCS/SB 836 (2016).

SARAH HASKINS