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Working group pauses push to repeal intake screening mandates, seeks consensus on OSHA-based best practices
Summary
Members of the Connecticut working group on home health and hospice worker safety declined to advance a repeal of Section 1 of recent legislation, instead discussing a package of OSHA-aligned best practices and a process for unresolved items to receive further review.
Tracy (Co-chair; head of the Connecticut Association for Health Care at Home) and Sasha (Co-chair) opened the meeting by urging the working group to find consensus on recommendations while preserving voices that disagreed.
The group debated whether to recommend repealing Section 1 of recent legislation (the intake-screening provisions enacted in Public Act 24-19). Some provider representatives urged retaining the statutory language because removing it could reintroduce risk or leave vulnerable populations without care. Others, including several hospice providers, said the statutory intake requirements are burdensome and could reduce access…
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