Introduced
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To require nursing homes to increase their staff-to-patient ratio sufficient to provide at least three hours of direct care per patient per day (instead of 2.25 hours under current law). The bill directs the Department of Community Heath to increase the Medicaid reimbursement of nursing homes that comply, and suspends enforcement of the new ratio requirements until the department has the funds to pay the higher reimbursement amount.
Referred to the Committee on Health Policy
