Electronic Monitoring To Be Implemented in Nursing Homes
Virginia Senator, Harry Blevens (R), has introduced this bill on January 8, 2013. Read the summary below or click on the link to read the entire bill.
Summary as introduced:Nursing homes and
certified nursing facilities; electronic monitoring by patients. Provides
that the governing body of a nursing home or certified nursing facility shall
ensure that each patient admitted to the facility is informed of the right of
any patient to implement electronic monitoring in the room in which he resides,
the right of any patient to consent or refuse to consent to electronic
monitoring in any room in which he resides, and the options available to any
patient in cases in which he refuses to consent to electronic monitoring;
directs the Board of Health to include in regulations governing nursing homes
and certified nursing facilities provisions for the use of electronic monitoring
devices by patients in nursing homes and certified nursing facilities that
protect the rights of patients; and provides that no person shall be discharged
or transferred from a nursing home or certified nursing facility solely because
he implements electronic monitoring in any room in which he resides.
Click the link below to read Senate Bill 974
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