Senate Bill sb2390

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2390

    By Senator Klein





    28-1685-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to subacute care; requiring the

  3         Agency for Health Care Administration to

  4         conduct a study of transitional subacute care

  5         services provided to adults; requiring a report

  6         to the Legislature; providing an effective

  7         date.

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

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11         Section 1.  The Agency for Health Care Administration

12  shall conduct a study of the ways transitional subacute care

13  is provided to adults in the state. The agency shall report on

14  the settings, other than the patient's home, to which patients

15  are discharged from acute-care settings. The agency must study

16  both licensed and unlicensed settings to which physicians

17  discharge patients for transitional subacute care prior to the

18  patient's return to his or her home. By January 1, 2003, the

19  agency must report to the Legislature regarding the locations

20  where patients receive transitional subacute care, the types

21  of services received, costs of the services, and the sources

22  of funding that pay for the services. The study must include

23  information regarding transitional subacute care in hospitals

24  and nursing homes as well as in facilities that are not

25  licensed as healthcare facilities. The report must include a

26  review of how transitional subacute care is provided in other

27  states.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

29  law.

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2390
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  3    Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to
      conduct a study of transitional subacute care services
  4    provided to adults. Requires the agency to report to the
      Legislature by January 1, 2003.
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