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Requiring the preparation and publication of information relating to the influenza vaccine for individuals residing in assisted living residences and personal care homes; and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services.
In human services block grant pilot program, further providing for definitions, for establishment of human services block grant, for powers and duties of the department, for powers and duties of counties, for allocation, for use of block grant funds, for applicability of other statutes, for appeals, for limitations and for construction and making editorial changes.
In adoption, further providing for definitions and for original birth record.
Providing for limitations on the dispensing of opioid drug products in hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers and to patients in observation status and for duties of the Department of Health; and imposing a penalty.
In Commonwealth universal research enhancement, providing for spinal cord injury research program, further providing for department responsibilities and for use of funds and providing for spinal cord injury research programs funding.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions; and abrogating regulations.
Further providing for short title, for definitions, for recognition of centers, for emergency medical services and for biennial report.
In children and youth, further providing for adoption opportunity payments and reimbursement.
Further providing for consent of minor.
Providing for the use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain entities and organizations; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In death and fetal death registration, further providing for information for certificates and for coroner referrals.
Providing for the use of investigational drugs, biological products and devices by terminally ill patients.
In public assistance, providing for the establishment of KEYS, for copayments for subsidized child care, for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for other medical assistance payments, for mileage reimbursement and paratransit services for individuals receiving methadone treatment and for other computations affecting counties; providing for children's health care; in children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children, for provider submissions and for limits on reimbursements to counties; repealing provisions relating to Medicaid managed care organization assessments; in Statewide quality care assessment, further providing for definitions, for implementation, for restricted account and for expiration of article; providing for managed care organization assessments; in departmental powers and duties as to supervision, further providing for definitions; in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions, for fees, for provisional license and for violation and penalty; repealing provisions relating to registration provisions; in family finding and kinship care, further providing for definitions, for kinship care program and for permanent legal custodianship subsidy and reimbursement; abrogating regulations; repealing provisions relating to children's health care in the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for the title of the act; in general provisions, further providing for definitions, for State interagency agreement, for other duties of State agencies and for council; and, in Statewide system for provision of early intervention services, further providing for requirements, for program regulations and standards, for administration by Department of Public Welfare, for administration by Department of Education and for child identification, assessment and tracking system.
Establishing a task force on lead and the hazards of lead poisoning; and authorizing a study.
In fiscal provisions relating to public assistance, providing for distribution of SNAP benefits.
Providing for emergency addiction treatment; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for licensure.
Providing for hepatitis C testing and treatment and for duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for definitions, for substitutions, for posting requirements, for powers and duties of Department of Health and for immunity of pharmacists under certain circumstances.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for lead testing; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for lead testing.
Urging the Congress of the United States to pass H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
As follows: in public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance, for medical assistance payments for institutional care and for other computations affecting counties; in children and youth, further providing for provider submissions; in nursing facility assessments, further providing for time periods; in intermediate care facilities for persons with an intellectual disability assessments, further providing for time periods; in hospital assessments, further providing for time periods; in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for regulations; establishing the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Program; making editorial changes; and making related repeals.
In powers and duties of Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, providing for drug overdose death reporting.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care; in children and youth, further providing for provider submissions; in nursing facility assessments, further providing for definitions and for time periods; in intermediate care facilities for persons with an intellectual disability assessments, further providing for definitions and for time periods; in hospital assessments, further providing for definitions and for time period; in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for regulations; establishing the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Program; providing for the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Fund; and making a related repeal.
Providing for outpatient psychiatric oversight.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for disposition and expunction of unfounded reports and general protective services reports, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for volunteers having contact with children and for recertification.
In responsibilities of the State, further providing for general powers and duties of the Department of Human Services; and, in responsibilities of the counties, further providing for duties of the administrator.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in care facilities; imposing powers and duties on the Department of Aging, the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services; and prescribing penalties.
In powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commissions, further providing for domestic violence and rape victims services; and making editorial changes.
Providing for a grant program for a Statewide 2-1-1 system and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.
Further providing for title of act, for short title, for definitions, for establishment of Methadone Death and Incident Review Team, for team duties, for duties of coroner and medical examiner, for review procedures and for confidentiality.
Further providing for the Newborn Child Screening and Follow-up Program.
Providing for school stability of children in foster care; and making an inconsistent repeal.
Providing for limitations on the dispensing of opioid analgesic drug products in emergency departments of hospitals and for use of prescription drug monitoring programs.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish an advisory committee to study issues relating to the need for, availability of and access to effective drug addiction treatment in this Commonwealth.
In public assistance, prohibiting eligibility for individuals convicted of drug distribution.
In general provisions, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
Providing immunity for providers of free or low-cost health care.
Further providing for sunset provisions.
As follows: In public assistance: establishing the Keystone Education Yields Success Program; and further providing for copayments for subsidized child care, for identification and proof of residence, for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for other medical assistance payments, for mileage reimbursement and paratransit services for individuals receiving methadone treatment. In children and youth: further providing for payments to counties for services to children, for providers submission and for limits on reimbursement to counties. Repealing provisions relating to Medicaid managed care organization assessments. In Statewide quality care assessment: further providing for definitions, for implementation, for administration, for restricted account and for expiration. Providing for managed care organization assessments. In departmental powers and duties as to supervision: further providing for definitions. In departmental powers and duties as to licensing: further providing for definitions, for fees, for provisional license and for violation and penalty; and repealing provisions relating to registration. In family finding and kinship care: further providing for definitions, for the Kinship Care Program and for permanent legal custodianship subsidy and reimbursement. Making a related repeal. Providing for the licensing of family child-care homes.
Providing for the compilation of daily nursing staff reports by hospitals, for public posting of reports and for reporting to the Department of Health; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Low-Income Water and Wastewater Assistance Program and the Pennsylvania Low-Income Water and Wastewater Assistance Fund; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services and the Auditor General relative to the administration of the program.
Establishing a task force on prostate cancer and related chronic prostate conditions; and providing for powers and duties of the task force, the Department of Health, the Insurance Department, the Department of Aging and the Department of Human Services, and for prevention and education strategies.
Providing for the Early Childhood Vision Care Education Program and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for living wage certification for nursing facilities and for employer responsibility penalties for nursing facilities; establishing the Employer Responsibility for Public Assistance Fund; and imposing penalties.
Providing for summaries or copies of patient test results to be sent directly to a patient or the patient's designee when there is a finding of a significant abnormality; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for unannounced inspections of certain facilities and persons that provide child day care; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Human Services; repealing provisions of the Public Welfare Code relating to registration provisions; and abrogating a regulation.
Requiring the preparation and publication of information relating to the influenza vaccine for individuals residing in assisted living residences; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In child protective services, further providing for definitions, for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for access to information in Statewide database, for release of information in confidential reports, for employees having contact with children and adoptive and foster parents, for information relating to certified or registered day-care home residents, for volunteers having contact with children, for continued employment or participation in program, activity or service, for certification compliance, for education and training and for mandatory reporting of children under one year of age.
In public assistance, further providing for copayments for subsidized child care; and abrogating a regulation.
Adding provisions relating to mental health procedures and the treatment of individuals with mental illness in the criminal justice system; making conforming amendments to Titles 18, 20, 23, 42 and 61; and repealing the Mental Health Procedures Act.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for mental health treatment.
Establishing the Kinship Caregiver Navigator Pilot Program within the Department of Human Services.
Reenacting and amending the act of July 8, 1986 (P.L.408, No.89), known as the Health Care Cost Containment Act, further providing for sunset; and making editorial changes.
Urging the Commonwealth to adopt and utilize person-first language with respect to people with disabilities.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Amending the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its powers and duties," establishing the office of Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth and providing for its powers and duties.
In public assistance, further providing for verification of eligibility.
Directing the Advisory Committee on Public Health Law of the Joint State Government Commission to study the issue of youth vaccinations and immunizations to determine whether any amendments should be made to the Commonwealth's public health law.
Providing for violence prevention committees in health care facilities, for their powers and duties, for remedies and for the powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry.
Making editorial changes by replacing references to the former Department of Public Welfare with the Department of Human Services.
In public assistance, providing for screening for illegal drug use by certain applicants for assistance.
Requiring the Department of Health to adopt regulations for the approval of training programs relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine in emergency situations; authorizing certain individuals to obtain a prescription for, purchase and administer epinephrine in emergency situations; and limiting liability.
Permitting certain establishments to obtain a prescription for and maintain epinephrine kits; requiring the Department of Health to adopt regulations for the approval of certain training programs relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine in emergency situations; and limiting liability.
In administrative organization, abolishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol programs; in powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental Administrative and Advisory Board, transferring the Department of Drug and Alcohol's powers and duties to the Department of Health; and, in powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, making a repeal.
Providing for remediation of real property contaminated by methamphetamine production, for decontamination guidelines to be developed by Department of Health and for restitution; prohibiting certain activity relating to certain property; providing for enforcement; establishing immunity for real estate professionals under certain circumstances; and authorizing fees.
Establishing a task force on prostate cancer and related chronic prostate conditions; and providing for powers and duties of the task force and the Department of Health and for prostate cancer prevention and education strategies.
In public assistance, prohibiting eligibility for violators of sexual offender registration.
Establishing the Health Advisory Panel on Shale Gas Extraction and Natural Gas Use; and providing for its powers and duties.
Providing for requirements for hospitals and health care facilities that provide services to sexual assault victims, for provision of information and services relating to emergency contraception and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
Further prohibiting smoking in public places; providing for local ordinances; and repealing certain provisions of the Fire and Panic Act.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for specific powers and duties with regard to opioid addiction treatment.
Providing for peer-to-peer support for veterans; and making an appropriation.
Providing for automatic changes to schedules of controlled substances.
Further providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Changing the name of the Department of Public Welfare to the Department of Human Services; and deleting obsolete provisions.
Providing for hepatitis C testing and treatment and for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' recommendations for influenza vaccination in children and for duties of the Department of Health.
Requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to coordinate and cooperate on any investigations into suspected disease or cancer clusters in this Commonwealth.
In public assistance, further providing for mileage reimbursement and paratransit services for individuals receiving methadone treatment.
In public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.
Providing for freedom of conscience of health care providers and health care institutions.
In preemptions, providing for use of public funds for abortion.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in dependent care facilities; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, further providing for determination of need.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities; and imposing penalties.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling and screening to be provided to a pregnant woman; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Providing for the prevention, detection, treatment and follow-up of cases of hepatitis B among State and local law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance attendants, first responders and health professionals.
Establishing the Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council; providing powers and duties of the council, the Department of Human Services; and providing for development of a plan to implement a Statewide medical home model.
Providing for prescription drug monitoring; creating the ABC-MAP Board; establishing the Achieving Better Care by Monitoring All Prescriptions Program; and providing for unlawful acts and penalties.
Requiring a hospital to provide notice to a patient of the patient's outpatient status, and the impact of the outpatient status on insurance coverage.
Requiring health care facilities to disseminate information relating to pertussis education; and imposing a duty on the Department of Health.
In child protective services, further providing for persons required to report suspected child abuse, for reporting procedure, for confidentiality of reports, for release of information in confidential reports, for information relating to prospective child-care personnel, for information relating to family day-care home residents and for information relating to other persons having contact with children; providing for continued employment or participation in program, activity or service and for certification compliance; making a conforming amendment to Title 42; providing for a study on employment bans for those having contact with children; and making editorial changes.
Further providing for newborn child screening and follow-up program.
Providing for the Early Childhood Vision Care Education Program and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for definitions, for substitutions, for posting requirements, for powers and duties of Department of Health and for immunity of pharmacists under certain circumstances.
Establishing a task force on prostate cancer and related chronic prostate conditions; and providing for powers and duties of the task force, the Department of Health, the Insurance Department, the Department of Aging, the Department of Welfare, prevention and education strategies.
Reenacted and amended June 10, 2009 (P.L.10, No.3), further providing for expiration of the act.
Changing the name of the Department of Public Welfare to the Department of Human Services; providing for a transition period; and establishing a toll-free DHS fraud tip line.
Adding provisions relating to mental health procedures and the treatment of individuals with mental illness in the criminal justice system; making conforming amendments to Titles 18, 20, 23, 42 and 61; and repealing the Mental Health Procedures Act.
Requiring certain health care practitioners to disseminate information relating to Down syndrome; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In Treasury Department, further providing for investment of money; in disposition of abandoned and unclaimed property, further providing for definitions, for property held by financial institutions, for property held by insurers, for property held by utilities, for property held by business associations, for property held by fiduciaries, for property held by courts and public officers and agencies, for miscellaneous property held for or owing to another and for report of property subject to custody and control of the Commonwealth, providing for certificate of finder registration, for revocation of finder registration and for appeals, further providing for examination of records, for proceeding to compel reporting or delivery and for penalties, and providing for relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act; in inquisitorial powers of fiscal officers, further providing for examination and adjustment of public accounts and the collection of amounts due the Commonwealth; in oil and gas wells, providing for legislative findings and further providing for appropriation, for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and for additional transfers; in special funds, further providing for funding, establishing the H2O PA Account, and providing for other grants; in additional special funds, further providing for use of fund, providing for termination, for transfer to Public School Employees' Retirement System, and further providing for distributions from Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund; in general budget implementation, further providing for State Civil Service Commission; providing for Environmental Quality Board, for surcharges and for other agencies; providing for rural regional college for underserved counties, for 2014-2015 budget implementation and for 2014-2015 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; and making related repeals.
Providing for newborn child pulse oximetry screening.
Further providing for powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
Establishing a task force on Lyme disease and related maladies; and providing for powers and duties of the task force, the Department of Health, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Game Commission to execute surveillance, prevention and education strategies.
In public assistance, further providing for determination of need.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct an evaluation of the Department of Public Welfare's Human Services Block Grant Pilot Program.
Providing for hepatitis C testing and treatment and for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for remediation of real property contaminated by methamphetamine production, for decontamination guidelines to be developed by Department of Health and for restitution; prohibiting certain activity relating to certain property; providing for enforcement; establishing immunity for real estate professionals under certain circumstances; and authorizing fees.
Further providing for definitions; providing for opioid-related drug overdose death prevention programs; imposing duties on the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and the Department of Health; and making editorial changes.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in dining establishments; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions, for false statements, investigations and penalty and for reporting fraud; and providing for lost access device reporting by department.
Regulating tattoo, body-piercing and permanent-cosmetic artists; limiting tongue splitting; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; establishing the Body Art Regulation Fund; and imposing penalties.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities; establishing the Indoor Tanning Regulation Fund; and providing for penalties.
Requiring certain health care practitioners to disseminate information relating to Down syndrome; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for peer-to-peer support for veterans; and making an appropriation.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for treatment of overdose with opioid antagonist.
Providing for summaries or copies of patient test results to be sent directly to a patient or the patient's designee when there is a finding of a significant abnormality; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Requiring hospitals to provide certain notice of patient outpatient status; providing for training; imposing duties on the Department of Health; and providing for expiration.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in dependent care facilities; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, prohibiting eligibility for Megan's Law violators.
Providing for emergency volunteer health practitioners uniformity; and repealing the Counterterrorism Planning, Preparedness and Response Act.
In general budget implementation, further providing for the Department of Public Welfare.
Repealing the act of December 18, 1984 (P.L.1068, No.213), entitled "An act requiring physicians to obtain informed consent from patients for treatment of breast disease."
In child protective services, further providing for definitions and for mandatory reporting of infants.
Prohibiting certain interference with access to health care facilities; and prescribing penalties.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study and to issue a report on the status of and any disparities found in dental care for Pennsylvanians with disabilities.
Providing for eligibility for subsidized child care for veterans and military personnel.
Further providing for definitions, for inspection, for unlawful conduct and for penalty.
Providing for patients' rights; and establishing a Pain Management and Palliative Care Task Force.
Providing for the provision of anesthesia care in certain settings; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In public assistance, providing for placement screening.
Requiring the notification of breast density to patients who receive a mammogram.
Establishing the Pharmaceutical Accountability Monitoring System; abrogating a regulation; and imposing penalties.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the issue of specialty tier prescription drug pricing in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for gubernatorial appointments.
Further providing for verification of eligibility.
Establishing the Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Council; providing powers and duties of the council, the Department of Public Welfare, the Insurance Department and the Department of Health; and providing for development of a plan to implement a Statewide medical home model.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care and for medical assistance benefit packages, coverage, copayments, premiums and rates; in children and youth, further providing for payments to counties for services to children and providing for provider submissions; in intermediate care facilities assessments, further providing for time periods and making editorial changes; in hospital assessments, further providing for authorization and for time period; in Statewide quality care assessment, reenacting and further defining "net inpatient revenue," providing for implementation, for administration, for limitations and for expiration; in Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Stabilization, further providing for funding; in kinship care, further providing for scope and for definitions; providing for family finding; and, in human services block grant pilot program, further providing for establishment of human services block grant pilot program, for powers and duties of the department, for powers and duties of counties, for allocation and for use of block grant funds.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions, for administration, for licensure, for term and content of license and for reliance on accrediting agencies and Federal Government; and providing for reliance on national accreditation organizations for hospitals.
Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and electronic tracking.
In public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.
Establishing the Health Advisory Panel on Shale Gas Extraction and Natural Gas Use; and providing for its powers and duties.
Changing the name of the Department of Public Welfare to the Department of Human Services; and providing for a transition period.
Requiring long-term care nursing facilities to submit to the Department of Health, in a uniform format, direct care staffing information.
Requiring long-term care nursing facilities to maintain certain nurse aide staffing levels in order to protect the health and safety of residents and employees; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing civil penalties.
Further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities; establishing the Indoor Tanning Regulation Fund; and providing for penalties.
Further providing for mileage reimbursement and paratransit services for individuals receiving methadone treatment.
Providing for electronic prior approval for Medicaid.
In general powers and duties of the department of public welfare, further providing for county human services consolidated planning and reporting; in human services block grant pilot program, further providing for definitions, for establishment of human services block grant pilot program, for powers and duties of the department, for powers and duties of counties, for allocation and for use of block grant funds.
Permitting certain establishments to obtain a prescription for and maintain epinephrine kits; requiring the Department of Health to adopt regulations for the approval of certain training programs relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine in emergency situations; and limiting liability.
Requiring the Department of Health to adopt regulations for the approval of training programs relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine in emergency situations; authorizing certain individuals to obtain a prescription for, purchase and administer epinephrine in emergency situations; and limiting liability.
Establishing a transitional housing assistance program; and making an appropriation.
Abolishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and transferring its powers and duties to the Department of Health.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care Program in the Department of Health; and providing for hospital health clinics and for limitations.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision and licensing, further providing for definitions; and providing for child abuse recognition and reporting training.
Making extensive reenactments, revisions and additions by: in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in administrative provisions, further providing for the Department of Health; in health systems, further providing for the Health Policy Board and its functions and for Statewide planning; establishing the Certificate of Need Review Board; in administration, further providing for regulations and for orders; in certificate of need, further providing for requirement and review, for operation, for procedure, for public meetings, for good cause, for information, for review criteria, for monitoring and expiration, for emergencies, for notice of termination, for review of activities and for sanctions; in health care facility licensing, further providing for issuance; and in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for existing facilities and institutions, for fees and for expiration.
Providing for the collection and banking of placental and umbilical cord blood for therapeutic transplantation and research.
Further providing for statement of policy, for provision for treatment and for persons who may be subject to involuntary emergency examination and treatment.
Providing for the medical use of marijuana; and repealing provisions of law that prohibit and penalize marijuana use.
In public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care; and providing for financial eligibility for subsidized child care.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the issue of the number of physicians in Pennsylvania.
In child protective services, providing for electronic reporting and for regulations; further providing for mandatory reporting and postmortem investigation of deaths; providing for responsibility for investigation, for report reception, for disposition of initial reports, for jurisdictional overlap, for disposition of reports and for cooperation with county agency; and further providing for disposition of unfounded reports, for confidentiality of reports and for release of information in confidential reports.
Providing for the screening for illegal drug use by certain applicants for assistance.
Requiring the provision of a child's birth certificate, which shows the names and Social Security numbers of the child's father and mother, to receive benefits.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
Establishing the Pharmaceutical Accountability Monitoring System; and imposing penalties.
Establishing the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs; and imposing penalties.
Providing for use of public funds for abortion.
Providing for freedom of conscience of health care providers and health care institutions.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Providing for automatic changes to schedules of controlled substances.
Providing for requirements for hospitals and health care facilities that provide services to sexual assault victims, for provision of information and services relating to emergency contraception and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for congenital heart defects screening.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for specific powers and duties with regard to opioid addiction treatment.
In child protective services, further providing for education and training.
Providing for narcotic treatment programs.
Further providing for continuing medical education.
In preliminary provisions and in licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions.
Establishing the Lupus Education and Awareness Program and the Interagency and Partnership Advisory Panel on Lupus; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for funding to certain hospitals in sixth, seventh and eighth class counties; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Establishing the Donated Dental Services Program; imposing duties on the Department of Health; providing for program administration and for contract requirements; and making an appropriation.
Providing for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations for influenza vaccination in children.
Providing for the prevention, detection, treatment and follow-up of cases of hepatitis B among State and local law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance attendants, first responders and health professionals.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling and screening to be provided to a pregnant woman; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to coordinate and cooperate on any investigations into suspected disease or cancer clusters in this Commonwealth.
In administrative organization, further providing for advisory boards and commissions; and, in powers and duties of Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, establishing the Advisory Board on Acquired Brain Injury.
Further providing for concussions and traumatic brain injuries; and providing for Department of Health oversight.
Further prohibiting smoking in public places; providing for local ordinances; and making a related repeal of the Fire and Panic Act.
Providing for assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Further providing for legislative findings and for definitions; providing for verification of eligibility, for fraud reporting to Inspector General and for conflict of interest policy; further providing for weatherization and energy conservation; providing for performance audits by the Auditor General; and making editorial changes.
Establishing the Methadone Death and Incident Review Team and providing for its powers and duties; and imposing a penalty.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care Subsidy (CHCS) Program in the Department of Health; providing for hospital health clinics and for mobile prenatal and natal care demonstration project.
Establishing the Marcellus Shale Health Advisory Panel; and providing for its powers and duties.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities; establishing the Indoor Tanning Regulation Fund; and providing for penalties.
In public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care; and providing for financial eligibility for subsidized child care.
Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and electronic tracking.
Providing for use of public funds for abortion.
Further providing for definitions and for regulations.
In general powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare, providing for county human services consolidated planning and reporting; in public assistance, further providing for definitions, providing for cessation of the general assistance cash program and the continuation of the general assistance-related medical assistance programs, further providing for establishment of RESET, for determination of eligibility, for failure to comply with employment and work-related activity requirements and for medically needy and determination of eligibility; in children and youth, further providing for definitions; in nursing facility assessments, further providing for time periods; in kinship care, further providing for definitions and for Kinship Care Program, providing for Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Program and for permanent legal custodianship subsidy and reimbursement; providing for Human Services Block Grant Pilot Program; and making related repeals.
Establishing the Donated Dental Services Program; imposing duties on the Department of Health; providing for program administration and for contract requirements; and making an appropriation.
Further providing for death and fetal death registration information for certificates, for coroner referrals and for pronouncement of death by a professional nurse.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the Department of Public Welfare's usage of electronic benefit transfer cards as a means of conveying benefits and to analyze whether biometric smart cards containing a photograph and other identifying information would generate State savings, deter fraudulent activities and more efficiently transfer the payment to the recipient.
Making extensive reenactments, revisions and additions by: in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in administrative provisions, further providing for the Department of Health; in health systems, further providing for the Health Policy Board and its functions and for Statewide planning; establishing the Certificate of Need Review Board; in administration, further providing for regulations and for orders; in certificate of need, further providing for requirement and review, for operation, for procedure, for public meetings, for good cause, for information, for review criteria, for monitoring and expiration, for emergencies, for notice of termination, for review of activities and for sanctions; in health care facility licensing, further providing for issuance; and in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for existing facilities and institutions, for fees and for expiration.
Abolishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and transferring its powers and duties to the Department of Health.
Establishing a Statewide stroke system of care by recognizing primary stroke centers and directing the creation of emergency medical services training and transport protocols; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for continuing medical education.
Providing for patients' rights; and establishing a Pain Management and Palliative Care Task Force.
Regulating prescriptions to treat erectile dysfunction; imposing professional sanctions; and prescribing penalties.
Further providing for definitions and programs relating to domestic violence and rape victims services.
Providing for freedom of conscience of health care providers and health care institutions.
In public assistance, further providing for administration of assistance programs; and invalidating actions of the Department of Public Welfare.
Establishing the Pharmaceutical Accountability Monitoring System; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for definitions, for licensure, for application for license, for issuance of license and for inspections.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions; and, in public assistance, providing for mileage reimbursement for individuals receiving methadone treatment.
Further providing for disclosure of records.
Further providing for medical assistance payments; and providing for gaining access to physicians via telehealth.
Updating and modernizing certain terminology.
Providing for electronic prior approval for Medicaid.
Requiring the notification of breast density to patients who receive a mammogram.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study and to issue a report on the status of and any disparities found in dental care for Pennsylvanians with disabilities.
Providing for narcotic treatment programs.
Further providing for application for registration certificate, for issuance of registration certificate and for records; providing for disclosure; and further providing for emergency closure.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study on the feasibility of consolidating the prescription drug plans funded by the Commonwealth under a single administrator.
Further providing for declaration of policy; and providing for information.
Providing for congenital heart defects screening.
Providing for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Further providing for legislative intent, for consent to HIV-related tests and for counseling.
Further providing for the Tobacco Settlement Investment Board.
In public assistance, adding definitions; providing for fraud detection system, for administration of assistance programs and for copayments for subsidized child care; further providing for determination of eligibility; providing for verification system and for eligibility for persons with drug-related felonies; further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance, for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for reimbursement for certain medical assistance items and services, for payments for readmissions to a hospital paid through diagnosis-related groups and for medical assistance benefit packages, coverage, copayments, premiums and rates; in Statewide quality care assessment, further providing for the definition of "net patient revenue," for implementation, for calculation and notice of assessments under certain conditions, for restricted account limitations and for conditions for certain payments; and providing for inmate medical costs.
Providing for certificates of death without cause of death listed.
Requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to coordinate and cooperate on any investigations into suspected disease or cancer clusters in this Commonwealth.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
In public assistance, providing for eligibility for persons with drug-related felonies.
Requiring the provision of a child's birth certificate, which shows the names and Social Security numbers of the child's father and mother, to receive benefits.
Providing for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
In powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commissions, providing for eligibility for subsidized child day care.
Further providing for definitions, licensure, fees and issuance of license; and making an inconsistent repeal.
In public assistance, providing for the medical assistance transportation program.
In public assistance, further providing for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives, and establishing the Job Transition Loan Fund.
In public assistance, providing for eligibility for persons with drug-related felonies.
In preliminary provisions and in licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions.
Requiring the Department of Health to establish bloodborne pathogen standards for emergency services personnel and public employees; establishing the Bloodborne Pathogen Fund; and repealing an act relating to bloodborne pathogen standards.
Removing references to certain boards of trustees.
Providing for the medical use of marijuana; and repealing provisions of law that prohibit and penalize marijuana use.
Adding definitions; and further providing for false statements, investigations and penalty and for reporting fraud.
Providing for fraud detection system and for income eligibility verification system.
Further providing for prohibited use of public assistance funds.
Adding definitions; and further providing for false statements, investigations and penalty and for reporting fraud.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions and for determination of eligibility.
In administrative organization, further providing for advisory boards and commissions; and, in powers and duties of Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, establishing the Advisory Board on Acquired Brain Injury.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the issue of the number of physicians in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for medical assistance benefit packages and Medicaid managed care organizations; and making inconsistent repeals.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for specific powers and duties with regard to opioid addiction treatment.
Further providing for repayment from probate estates.
Further providing for purposes, for definitions, for powers of the Department of Health, for administration and for licensure; providing for compliance with staffing plans and recordkeeping, for work assignment policies and for public disclosure of staffing requirements; further providing for license standards, reliance on accrediting agencies and Federal Government, for medical assistance payments and for civil penalties; and providing for private cause of action and for grants and loan programs for nurse recruitment.
Establishing the Methadone Death and Incident Review Team and providing for its powers and duties; and imposing a penalty.
Further providing for domestic violence and rape victims services.
Requiring long-term care nursing facilities to maintain certain staffing levels in order to protect the health and safety of residents and employees; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing civil penalties.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the Pennsylvania Medicaid Estate Recovery Program to determine how much is recovered through the program and if further changes to the system are needed in order to return funding to the Commonwealth.
Providing for safe staffing standards for medical doctor residents working in hospitals and for penalties.
Providing for authority relating to medical facilities.
Further providing for department responsibilities and for medical facility reports and notifications.
Providing for the screening for illegal drug use by certain applicants for assistance.
Providing for licensure of abortion facilities and for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing penalties.
Requiring hospitals to obtain certain information relating to criminal history from prospective employees; providing for grounds for denying employment; prescribing penalties; providing for provisional employment for limited periods; imposing certain requirements for hospital employees; and providing for civil immunity under certain circumstances.
Requiring public notices relating to certain matters affecting long-term care facilities; providing for compliance and enforcement; requiring the Department of Health to make inspection information available to the public; requiring long-term care facilities to transmit certain information to resident's representative; and imposing penalties.
Providing funding for standards and for implementation of a 211 abbreviated dialing code for information and human services referral telephone service; establishing the 211 Advisory Board; and making an appropriation.
Establishing the Keystone Care Program in the Department of Health to provide grants for health care services; and making an appropriation.
A Concurrent Resolution directing the Legislative and Budget Finance Committee to create a Pain Task Force and a Pain Task Force Advisory Committee to promote professional and public education and awareness and to improve the quality of care for the citizens of this Commonwealth who are suffering from pain.
Providing for the definitions of "clinical trial" and "pharmaceutical drug."
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Further providing for regulations as to employment, work-related activities and training, for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives, for the Assistance Recipient Identification Program, for administration of assistance and related functions and for eligibility; providing for residence requirements for county assistance offices and for fraud reporting to Inspector General; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for automatic changes to schedules of controlled substances.
Further providing for administration by Department of Health.
Providing for inpatient diagnostic-related group charge reporting.
Further providing, in general budget implementation, for the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing for term and content of licenses.
Providing for nursing home performance information; and requiring nursing homes to maintain inspection reports and to distribute reports to patients or designees.
Providing for quality assurance inspections.
Further providing for administration by Department of Health.
Providing for requirements for hospitals and health care facilities that provide services to sexual assault victims, for provision of information and services relating to emergency contraception and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
Providing for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations for influenza vaccination in children.
Establishing the Keystone Care Prescription Assistance Program in the Department of Public Welfare to provide prescription drug assistance; and making an appropriation.
Establishing the Lupus Education and Awareness Program and the Interagency and Partnership Advisory Panel on Lupus; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
In Department of Health, establishing the Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee; and providing for a Statewide stroke database.
Providing for assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Providing for the collection and banking of placental and umbilical cord blood for therapeutic transplantation and research.
Allowing nursing facilities to obtain medical assistance certified beds under limited terms and conditions; and providing for functions of the Department of Public Welfare.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling and screening to be provided to a pregnant woman; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
In Department of Health, providing for Alzheimer's disease programs.
Further prohibiting smoking in public places; providing for local ordinances; and making a related repeal of the Fire and Panic Act.
Providing for funding to certain hospitals in sixth, seventh and eighth class counties; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for the prevention, detection, treatment and follow-up of cases of hepatitis B among State and local law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance attendants, first responders and health professionals.
Providing for an intergenerational family care pilot program which seeks to aid persons who are not the biological or adoptive parents in raising children; and providing a model for a possible full-scale intergenerational family care program.
Exempting continuing care retirement communities from the medical assistance bed approval process and allowing nursing facilities operated by continuing care retirement communities to obtain medical assistance certified beds under limited terms and conditions.
Providing for photo identification tag regulations.
Prohibiting the expenditure of funds to pay for abortions except as provided by State law.
Further providing for lifetime limit; further defining "general acute care hospital" and "high volume Medicaid hospital"; further providing for authorization, for administration, for no hold harmless, for tax exemption, for cessation and for Statewide Quality Care Assessment implementation; providing for the availability of and access to a comprehensive trauma care system; imposing powers and duties upon the Department of Public Welfare; and making a related repeal.
Providing for education for parents relating to sudden infant death syndrome and sudden unexpected death of infants; establishing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Education and Prevention Program; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for a definition of "child"; and further providing for the definition of "medically dependent or technologically dependent child."
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the issue of the quantity of physicians in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Methadone Death and Incident Review Team and providing for its powers and duties; and imposing a penalty.
Establishing standards for managing concussions and head injuries to student athletes; assigning duties to the Department of Health and the Department of Education; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for disclosure of records.
Further providing for application for registration certificate, for issuance of registration certificate and for records; providing for disclosure; and further providing for emergency closure.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities and for penalties.
Creating the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Commission, providing for responsibilities and duties of the commission and for duties of the Department of Health.
Updating and modernizing certain terminology.
Establishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs; providing for governing body of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; making a related repeal; repealing related provisions of the Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Control Act; and making editorial changes.
In general powers of the Department of Public Welfare, further providing for determining whether applicants are veterans; in public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care; and providing for Statewide Quality Care Assessment.
Further providing for domestic violence and rape victims services.
Providing for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations for influenza vaccination in children.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a performance audit of Pennsylvania's methadone treatment programs and the medical assistance transportation program.
Requiring a circulating nurse in certain operating rooms.
Further providing for legislative intent, for consent to HIV-related tests and for counseling.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions; and, in public assistance, providing for mileage reimbursement for individuals receiving methadone treatment.
Providing for requirements for methadone use by narcotic treatment programs, for reducing methadone diversion, for reducing methadone-related accidents and deaths and for duties of the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs in the Department of Health.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions; and in public assistance, providing for payment conditions for methadone treatment.
Providing for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for opioid addiction treatment.
Providing for specific powers and duties with regard to opioid addiction treatment.
Providing for disposition of proceeds from facility closure.
Providing for the medical use of marijuana; and repealing provisions of law that prohibit and penalize marijuana use.
Urging the Department of Public Welfare, the Department of Labor and Industry and the Office of the Governor to apply for funds under the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund.
Providing for the regulation of tanning facilities and for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and prescribing penalties.
Establishing the Methadone Death and Incident Review Team and providing for its powers and duties; and imposing a penalty.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care (CHC) Program in the Department of Health; and providing for hospital health clinics.
Establishing State funding for the Heart Disease and Stroke Program within the Department of Health.
Further providing for the membership of the advisory committee of The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund.
Establishing the Essential Programs Fund.
In general powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare, providing for determining whether applicants are veterans; in public assistance, further providing for establishment of county boards and expenses, for lifetime limit and for prohibited use of public assistance funds; further defining "exempt hospital" and "general acute care hospital"; further providing for authorization, for administration, for no hold harmless, for tax exemption and for cessation; and providing for fraud reporting to Inspector General.
Recognizing the month of November 2009 as "Assistive Technology Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study of the feasibility and cost savings associated with transferring functions from the Department of Health to other departments or agencies as well as merging the duties of the Department of Health with the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing for regulations as to employment, work-related activities and training, for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives, for the Assistance Recipient Identification Program, for administration of assistance and related functions and for eligibility; providing for residence requirements for county assistance offices and for fraud reporting to Inspector General; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program eligibility, allocation of funds and resources; imposing duties on the Department of Public Welfare; and providing for compliance and fraud prevention procedures and for performance audit and allocation of appropriations.
Providing for drug redistribution within correctional facilities.
Providing a standard of care for the treatment of persons with bleeding disorders.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions; and providing for complaint investigations.
Providing for violation exceptions for personal care homes.
Providing for safe staffing standards for medical doctor residents working in hospitals and for penalties.
Urging the Department of Health to prepare and distribute educational information about premature infants' risks and health care needs.
Further providing for medical assistance benefit packages and Medicaid managed care organizations; and making inconsistent repeals.
Further providing for registration districts and local registrars' duties, for death and fetal death registrations and for reports.
Providing loans for health information technology.
Designating September 2009 as "Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Urging the United States Preventive Services Task Force to reexamine its recommendations on mammograms for women beginning at 40 years of age.
Providing for funding to certain hospitals in sixth, seventh and eighth class counties; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Designating the week of September 21 through 27, 2009, as "Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for a program for the disposal of home-generated medical sharps, and for powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Protection.
Reenacting and amending the act of July 8, 1986 (P.L.408, No.89), known as the Health Care Cost Containment Act, further providing for policy declaration, for definitions, for the Health Care Cost Containment Council and its powers and duties, for data submission and collection and for access to council data; providing for the establishment of a Health Care Cost Containment Council Act Review Committee; and further providing for sunset of act.
In children and youth, further providing for payment to counties for services to children; and providing for voluntary foster care extension.
Prohibiting preemption of ordinances.
Establishing the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Prevention Fund; and providing for the deposit of a portion of the liquor tax into the fund and for use of fund.
Providing for the screening for illegal drug use by certain applicants for assistance.
Requiring hospitals to obtain certain information relating to criminal history from prospective employees; providing for grounds for denying employment; prescribing penalties; providing for provisional employment for limited periods; imposing certain requirements for hospital employees; and providing for civil immunity under certain circumstances.
Providing for quarterly interim payments to certain providers of community mental retardation services; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
Further providing for definitions, for the council and its powers and duties, for data submission, collection, dissemination and publication, for health care for the medically indigent, for mandated health benefits, for access to council data, for special studies and reports, enforcement and penalties, for research and demonstration projects, for grievances and grievance procedures, for antitrust, for contracts with vendors and for reporting; providing for establishment of a health care cost containment council act review committee; and further providing for severability and for sunset.
Designating April 16, 2009, as "Healthcare Decisions Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for purposes, for definitions, for powers of the Department of Health, for administration and for licensure; providing for compliance with staffing plans and recordkeeping, for work assignment policies and for public disclosure of staffing requirements; further providing for license standards, for reliance on accrediting agencies and Federal Government, for medical assistance payments and for civil penalties; and providing for private right of action and for grants and loan programs for nurse recruitment.
In registration district administration, further providing for local registrars' duties; in death and fetal death registrations, further providing for certificates to be filed and for permits concerning dead bodies and fetal remains; and, in records, further providing for reports to county registration commissions.
Providing for an intergenerational family care pilot program which seeks to aid persons who are not the biological or adoptive parents in raising children; and providing a model for a possible full-scale intergenerational family care program.
Requiring certain staffing levels at health care facilities providing renal dialysis services; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Providing a standard of care for the treatment of persons with bleeding disorders.
Further providing for payments to counties for services to children.
Establishing the Keystone Care Program in the Department of Health to provide grants for health care services; and making an appropriation.
Establishing the Keystone Care Prescription Assistance Program in the Department of Public Welfare to provide prescription drug assistance; and making an appropriation.
Requiring the provision of a child's birth certificate, which shows the names and Social Security numbers of the child's father and mother, to receive benefits.
A Concurrent Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to create a Pain Task Force and a Pain Task Force Advisory Committee to promote professional and public education and awareness and to improve the quality of care for the citizens of this Commonwealth who are suffering from pain.
Further providing for declaration of policy, for patient safety definitions, for powers and duties of the Patient Safety Authority and for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and providing for whistleblower protection.
Providing for education for parents relating to sudden infant death syndrome and sudden unexpected death of infants; establishing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Education and Prevention Program; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Requiring public notices relating to certain matters affecting long-term care facilities; providing for compliance and enforcement; requiring the Department of Health to make inspection information available to the public; requiring long-term care facilities to transmit certain information to resident's representative; and imposing penalties.
Providing for inpatient diagnostic-related group charge reporting.
Requiring the licensing of secondary wholesalers and a written pedigree for use in tracking drugs through the supply chain and in identifying counterfeit prescription drugs; imposing duties and responsibilities upon the Department of Health and the State Board of Pharmacy; and prescribing penalties.
Providing for security reports of mental health and mental retardation facilities; and imposing a civil penalty.
Providing for the electronic monitoring of controlled substances dispensed by a pharmacist and for the powers and duties of the Office of Attorney General; and prescribing penalties.
Providing for automatic changes to schedules of controlled substances.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the Pennsylvania Medicaid Estate Recovery Program to determine how much is recovered through the program and if further changes to the system are needed in order to return funding to the Commonwealth.
Further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance.
Providing funding for standards and for implementation of a 211 abbreviated dialing code for information and human services referral telephone service; establishing the 211 Advisory Board; and making an appropriation.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Providing for nursing home performance information; and requiring nursing homes to maintain inspection reports and to distribute reports to patients or designees.
Further providing for term and content of licenses.
Providing for records of distribution of controlled substances.
Further providing for administration by Department of Health.
Providing for quality assurance inspections.
Further providing for administration by Department of Health.
In Department of Health, providing for Alzheimer's disease programs.
Providing for the definitions of "clinical trial" and "pharmaceutical drug" and for drug manufacturer clinical trials reporting; and further providing for prohibited acts and penalties.
Providing for proceeds derived from facility disposition; and establishing the Mental Health Community Services Account and the Mental Retardation Community Services Account.
Allowing nursing facilities to obtain medical assistance certified beds under limited terms and conditions; and providing for functions of the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing, in general budget implementation, for the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for identification badge for licensed health care practitioner and for penalties; and providing for the powers and duties of the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs within the Department of State.
Providing for requirements for hospitals and health care facilities that provide services to sexual assault victims, for provision of information and services relating to emergency contraception and for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Exempting continuing care retirement communities from the medical assistance bed approval process and allowing nursing facilities operated by continuing care retirement communities to obtain medical assistance certified beds under limited terms and conditions.
Providing for the prevention, detection, treatment and follow-up of cases of hepatitis B among State and local law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, ambulance attendants, first responders and health professionals.
Providing for Lyme disease education, prevention and treatment.
Further providing for medical assistance payments.
Providing for the collection and banking of placental and umbilical cord blood for therapeutic transplantation and research.
Designating June 7, 2009, as "Alex's Lemonade Stand Day" in Pennsylvania and encouraging all citizens to contribute to the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and other pediatric cancer research programs.
Recognizing the month of May 2009 as "Exercise is Medicine" month in Pennsylvania.
Providing for assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Removing references to certain boards of trustees.
In powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commissions, providing for eligibility for subsidized child day care.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling and screening to be provided to a pregnant woman; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
In Department of Health, establishing the Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee; and providing for a Statewide stroke database.
Further prohibiting smoking in public places; providing for local ordinances; and making a related repeal of the Fire and Panic Act.
Requiring long-term care nursing facilities to maintain certain staffing levels in order to protect the health and safety of residents and employees; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing civil penalties.
In public assistance, providing for a training and education program for certain individuals eligible for public assistance.