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ND SB2081
Bill
Status
3/31/2025
Primary Sponsor
Human Services
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AI Summary
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Allows the Department of Health and Human Services to select skilled nursing facilities (expanded from "one or more skilled nursing homes") to operate geropsychiatric service units, removing the requirement that these units be "exclusive" to such services
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Changes admission criteria from requiring state hospital evaluation to allowing any licensed practitioner working within their scope of practice to determine if an individual meets skilled nursing criteria and needs psychiatric behavioral health services
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Maintains priority admission status for individuals referred from the state hospital
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Removes the prohibition on the state hospital offering geropsychiatric services through dedicated units
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Passed with near-unanimous support: Senate 47-0, House 83-1
Legislative Description
Geropsychiatric facilities.
Last Action
Filed with Secretary Of State 03/31
4/1/2025