Senate Committee Substitute

SCS/SB 89 -Under this act, the Department of Health and Senior Services shall not assign an individual to inspect or survey a long-term care facility in which the surveyor was an employee of such facility within the preceding five years.

The department shall require disclosure statements by newly hired and currently employed inspectors and surveyors of long-term care facilities regarding his or her past employment in long-term care facilities and the past employment of family members and close friends in long-term care facilities. Any long-term care facility may notify the department if there is a concern about an inspector or surveyor based on the public disclosure statements. The act delineates the department's duties upon receiving such notification of concern.

ADRIANE CROUSE


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