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Senate committee issues a do‑not‑pass on bill to create regional contracts for ventilator or psychiatric long‑term care; discussion continues on adult‑residence
Summary
The Senate Human Services Committee voted 6–0 to recommend do‑not‑pass on SB 2360, which would have required the department to contract regionally to serve people with ventilator or psychiatric long‑term care needs.
The Senate Human Services Committee voted 6–0 to recommend a do‑not‑pass on Senate Bill 2360 after expressing concerns about combining ventilator and psychiatric needs into a single contracting scheme and about the feasibility of establishing four regional long‑term care contracts with sufficient workforce and readiness.
SB 2360 would have directed the Department of Health and Human Services to establish four service regions and to contract with a provider in each region to provide long‑term care services to individuals with ventilator or psychiatric needs. The bill also allowed the department to pay for care in an out‑of‑state certified facility if the department was unable to contract with an in‑state provider, and specified that an in‑state facility could receive additional funding equal to the added cost when a patient had been served out of state in the prior year.
Committee members raised multiple concerns. Senators and staff questioned whether combining ventilator care (a medically skilled service) and…
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