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Increases scope of practice for licensed practical nurses and patient care technicians under certain circumstances.
Regulates medication administration in certain licensed, residential facilities.
Requires DOH to study cost of establishing long-term health care benefit for certain individuals.
Adds language authorizing transfer of General Fund appropriations for certain licensed health care entities to Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services to maximize federal Medicaid payments to certain faculty physicians and non-physician professionals.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Requires licensed providers of long-term skilled nursing care to establish permanent morgue for use in non-emergent periods and supplemental morgue space for use in public emergencies.
Shifts $45 million appropriation for opioid related care and treatment provided at certain hospitals from Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund to General Fund.
Establishes tuition reimbursement program for certain advanced practice nurses who provide home health care services.
Requires DHS to develop enhanced training curriculum for direct support professionals.
Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.
Revises responsibilities and duties of Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Authorizes DOH to establish partnerships in international public health.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Designates third full week of May of each year as "Clinical Trials Awareness Week" and May 20 of each year as "Clinical Trials Volunteers Appreciation Day" in NJ.
Establishes Emergency Medical Services Provider Safety Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Requires certain providers of substance or alcohol use disorder treatment, services, or supports to be assessed for conflicts of interest prior to receiving State funds, licensure, or certification.
Revises licensure requirements for residential substance use disorders treatment facilities or programs.
"Addiction Medicine Philanthropy Act"; provides physicians who provide uncompensated care for treatment of substance use disorders with $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in actions alleging medical malpractice.
Authorizes temporary licensure of graduated nursing students.
Requires nursing homes to submit certain cost reports to DOH in annual financial report.
Revises provisions of State law concerning licensure of ambulatory care facility.
Requires Office of Information Technology to establish centralized, one-stop website resource guide to assist persons in navigating the State's mental health and substance use disorder service systems.
Requires hospitals to adopt and develop environmental sustainability plan.
Requires long-term care facilities to stock and provide COVID-19 antiviral treatments to residents.
Establishes procedures for licensing of certain international medical graduates; repeals R.S.45:9-14.
Provides incentives for certified nurse aides and nursing students to work as direct support professionals; makes appropriation.
Requires DOH to establish partnerships with certain entities to improve emergency response to public health crisis.
Establishes certain prescription drug data reporting requirements for hospitals.
Establishes "Long-Term Care Facility Infectious Disease Preparedness and Home Health Care Study Commission."
Establishes restrictions on designation of new trauma centers.
Requires hospital to install and operate electronic monitoring device at request of incapacitated patient or patient's legal representative.
Requires DHS to review, and implement certain improvements to, Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Program and to establish public-facing report card of managed care organization's coordination of program.
Requires DOH to evaluate technology uses in long-term care settings, implements certain technological requirements within long-term care settings, and clarifies existing telehealth reimbursement parity includes long-term care settings.
Requires DOH to establish Regional Hospital System Program for Emergency Preparedness and to annually survey preparedness and resiliency of State's hospital system in event of public emergency.
Requires hospitals to maintain minimum services when relocating from underserved community.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.
Establishes "Substance Use Disorder and Addiction Treatment Best Practices Task Force."
Requires certain hospitals to establish bereavement areas.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Regulates residential mental health treatment facilities.
Establishes "Recovery Tax Credit Program"; incentivizes hiring and continued employment of certain individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.
Establishes pilot program for 24-hour urgent care for behavioral health.
Requires hospitals and nursing homes to provide access to certain interpreter services for deaf and hard of hearing.
Requires DOLWD to identify and recruit unemployed individuals for employment in healthcare facilities, home care services, and hospice services; makes appropriation.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Revises certain requirements for involuntary commitment for substance use disorder treatment.
Establishes certain requirements concerning resident supervision at residential health care facilities.
Requires State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to include memory care training in annual long-term care training program.
Revises process for certain medical schools to receive authorization to operate clinical clerkship programs in New Jersey.
Revises requirements for assessing nursing home health, safety, and operations and for taking action against low-performing nursing homes.
Requires DOLWD and DHS to conduct assessment of community rehabilitation programs and community businesses.
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Imposes requirements on certain pediatric emergency departments; requires DOH to include information on pediatric emergency departments in its annual hospital performance report.
Requires DOH to revise emergency response plan for pandemic influenzas.
Requires long-term care facilities to develop person-centered care plans for residents and establishes right to certain forms of visitation for long-term care residents.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
Establishes provisional licensure for international medical graduates.
Requires publication of guide for licensure as integrated care facility; assigns DOH and DHS employees to communicate with facilities.
Provides that average time to issue licenses to physicians shall not exceed 51 days.
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Requires DOH to develop Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan.
Requires certain group homes to install electronic monitoring devices in common areas, upon request and with uniform resident consent.
"Public-Private Alliance to Retain Talent and Expand Regional Health Program Act"; creates grant program within DOH for student-loan and tuition relief and appropriates $5 million.
Requires nursing homes to permit use of electronic monitoring devices at request of resident.
Establishes Health Equity Access and Leadership Fund; appropriates $25 million from General Fund, and allocates portion of Health Care Subsidy Fund revenues, to fund.
Establishes initiatives related to behavioral health care, including increasing reimbursement rates, providing cost-of-living adjustments, establishing grant programs for facility upkeep and provider training, and relaxing clinical supervision requirements.
Requires establishment of minimum staff-to-resident ratios in veterans' memorial homes.
Requires hospitals to establish nurse staffing committees.
Requires Commissioner of DOLWD to conduct study to identify composition of current health care workforce, estimate future gaps, and recommend solutions to address gaps.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain wages of qualified health care professionals employed by health care entities.
Directs certain recoveries of federal funds for services to persons with developmental disabilities be used for grants to support community infrastructure purposes.
Establishes testing and visitation requirements and employment restrictions for long-term care facilities in response to outbreaks of infectious disease.
Revises assessment imposed on nursing homes if permissible under federal law.
Establishes NJ Life Sciences Training and Development Program in DOLWD.
Establishes EMT Workforce Development Partnership in DOH, appropriates $1.5 million.
Requires health care facilities to screen health care workers and first responders for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes nurse aide workforce development program.
Establishes basic life support services as essential; requires municipalities to arrange for basic life support services; makes an appropriation.
Requires development of State data and technology infrastructure investment plan for public health emergencies.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to facilitate establishment of four new recovery community centers.
Removes requirements for surgical practices to be licensed as ambulatory care facilities and requires surgical practices to register with DOH.
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150% of Medicare.
Requires hospitals to perform psychological and psychiatric evaluations on certain patients and requires health insurance coverage for such evaluations.
Establishes commission to study impact of certain Medicaid reimbursement rate change on nursing homes.
Increases access to substance use disorder treatment; Requires Medicaid coverage for substance use disorder services provided by community-based organizations.
Establishes pilot program to refer certain emergency department patients for development of coordinated behavioral health care treatment and support services plan.
Establishes "Graduate Physician Licensing Act."
Establishes process for county colleges to offer baccalaureate degree nursing programs.
Expands approved sites under Behavioral Healthcare Provider Loan Redemption Program.
Requires DOH and DEP to develop best practices, and certain health care providers to develop plan, concerning medical waste management.
Establishes long-term services and supports workforce engagement and sustainability program in DOH.
Authorizes health care professionals to engage in the use of remote patient monitoring devices; requires health care insurance coverage by certain insurers for remote patient monitoring devices.
Expands definition of personal data to include use of reproductive health care services and prohibits collection of reproductive health care prescription drugs from Prescription Monitoring Program.
Requires assisted living residences and certain facilities under DCA, DCF, and DHS to be equipped with standby emergency power generators.