Senate Bill 0756e1

    SB 756                                         First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Alzheimer's disease and

  3         related disorders; amending s. 430.502, F.S.;

  4         establishing additional memory disorder

  5         clinics; revising authority of the Department

  6         of Elderly Affairs with respect to contracts

  7         for specialized model day care programs at such

  8         clinics; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsections (1) and (4) of section 430.502,

13  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

14         430.502  Alzheimer's disease; memory disorder clinics

15  and day care and respite care programs.--

16         (1)  There is established:

17         (a)  A memory disorder clinic at each of the three

18  medical schools in this state;

19         (b)  A memory disorder clinic at a major private

20  nonprofit research-oriented teaching hospital, and may fund a

21  memory disorder clinic at any of the other affiliated teaching

22  hospitals;

23         (c)  A memory disorder clinic at the Mayo Clinic in

24  Jacksonville;

25         (d)  A memory disorder clinic at the West Florida

26  Regional Medical Center;

27         (e)  The East Central Florida Memory Disorder Clinic at

28  the Joint Center for Advanced Therapeutics and Biomedical

29  Research of the Florida Institute of Technology and Holmes

30  Regional Medical Center, Inc.;

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    SB 756                                         First Engrossed



  1         (f)  A memory disorder clinic at the Orlando Regional

  2  Healthcare System, Inc.; and

  3         (g)  A memory disorder center located in a public

  4  hospital that is operated by an independent special hospital

  5  taxing district that governs multiple hospitals and is located

  6  in a county with a population greater than 800,000 persons;

  7         (h)  A memory disorder clinic at St. Mary's Medical

  8  Center in Palm Beach County;

  9         (i)  A memory disorder clinic at the Tallahassee

10  Memorial Regional Medical Center; and

11         (j)  A memory disorder clinic at Lee Memorial Hospital

12  created by chapter 63-1552, Laws of Florida, as amended,

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14  for the purpose of conducting research and training in a

15  diagnostic and therapeutic setting for persons suffering from

16  Alzheimer's disease and related memory disorders.  However,

17  memory disorder clinics funded as of June 30, 1995, shall not

18  receive decreased funding due solely to subsequent additions

19  of memory disorder clinics in this subsection.

20         (4)  Pursuant to the provisions of s. 287.057, the

21  Department of Elderly Affairs may shall contract for the

22  provision of three specialized model day care programs in

23  conjunction with the each memory disorder clinics clinic.  The

24  purpose of each model day care program must be to provide

25  service delivery to persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease

26  or a related memory disorder and training for health care and

27  social service personnel in the care of persons having

28  Alzheimer's disease or related memory disorders.

29         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1 of the

30  year in which enacted.

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