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Sen. Driscoll proposes statutory stockpile and surge rules, cites 85% hospital threshold
Summary
Senator Jane Driscoll urged the committee to make Massachusetts’ strategic stockpile statutory and to adopt surge‑response triggers to ease hospital capacity pressures. She proposed codifying existing stockpile practices and a bill setting an 85 percent bed‑capacity threshold to trigger streamlined emergency actions such as temporary prior‑auth wa
Senator Joan (Jennifer) Driscoll (transcript name: Senator Driscoll) testified to the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management in support of two related bills: S.537, which would codify and standardize the Commonwealth’s strategic preparedness stockpile, and S.538, which would establish procedures for emergency response when pediatric or adult hospitalizations surge.
Driscoll told the committee the proposals would enshrine…
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