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Committee backs bill requiring residential care facilities to adopt quality oversight, post investigation and life‑safety results
Summary
Senate Bill 37, a DHHS‑requested bill to mandate quality assurance committees and require public posting of investigation and life‑safety inspection results at certain residential care and health facilities, moved out of committee with a committee amendment.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced Senate Bill 37, a department‑requested measure that would make quality assurance programs mandatory at licensed residential care facilities and require that results of certain DHHS investigations and life‑safety surveys be posted publicly at the facility.
Kate Littman, the majority policy director introducing the bill for Sen. Pearl, outlined statutory changes across several RSAs, saying section 1 would revise RSA 151:5‑c to make quality assurance programs mandatory for licensed residential care facilities and that the bill would amend RSA 151:6 and RSA 151:6‑a to expand the types of facilities whose investigations and life‑safety inspection results must…
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