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MA H780

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Kate Lipper-Garabedian

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Origin

House of Representatives

194th General Court

AI Summary

  • Establishes a Hospital to Home Partnership Program within the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to promote partnerships between acute-care hospitals and aging services access points (ASAPs)
  • Aims to strengthen communication and coordination with community providers to divert patients from institutional care and increase discharges to home and community-based settings
  • Requires at least 1 ASAP staff member to serve as a home and community-based services liaison at each participating acute-care hospital
  • Liaisons will connect patients to community services to enable discharge home instead of to skilled nursing facilities or other institutional placements
  • Amends Chapter 19A of the General Laws by adding Section 4E

Legislative Description

Establishing the hospital to home partnership program

Last Action

Accompanied a new draft, see H4432

8/28/2025

Committee Referrals

Elder Affairs2/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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