Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
12 (Peaden) recommended the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 395.003, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 395.003 Licensure; issuance, renewal, denial,
21 modification, suspension, and revocation.--
22 (1)(a) A person may not establish, conduct, or
23 maintain a hospital, ambulatory surgical center, or mobile
24 surgical facility in this state without first obtaining a
25 license under this part.
26 (b)1. It is unlawful for a person to use or advertise
27 to the public, in any way or by any medium whatsoever, any
28 facility as a "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or
29 "mobile surgical facility" unless such facility has first
30 secured a license under the provisions of this part.
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1 to commercial business establishments using the word
2 "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or "mobile surgical
3 facility" as a part of a trade name if no treatment of human
4 beings is performed on the premises of such establishments.
5 3. Until July 1, 2006, Additional emergency
6 departments located off the premises of licensed hospitals may
7 not be authorized by the agency until the agency has adopted
8 rules required under s. 395.1055(9).
9 Section 2. Subsection (9) is added to section
10 395.1055, Florida Statutes, to read:
11 395.1055 Rules and enforcement.--
12 (9) The agency shall adopt rules no later than January
13 1, 2007, which establish licensure standards for emergency
14 departments located off the premises of a licensed hospital.
15 The rules must:
16 (a) Include minimum criteria for patient care and
17 safety, quality improvement, infection control, building
18 design and construction, location, and appropriate transport
19 of patients from the emergency department located off the
20 premises consistent with chapter 401.
21 (b) Require the hospital to maintain an emergency
22 department on its premises which is licensed and operated in
23 accordance with agency rules.
24 (c) Specify that an emergency department located off
25 the premises of a licensed hospital which was authorized prior
26 to the adoption of rules shall continue to operate in
27 accordance with the licensure criteria under which it was
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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6 amending s. 395.003, F.S.; prohibiting
7 licensing of additional emergency departments
8 located off the premises of licensed hospitals
9 until the Agency for Health Care Administration
10 adopts rules; amending s. 395.1055, F.S.;
11 requiring the agency to adopt rules by a
12 specified date to establish licensure standards
13 for emergency departments located off the
14 premises of a licensed hospital; requiring the
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