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Debate over new quality-oversight measure for psychiatric treatment facilities yields no motion
Summary
Representative Frank Kavanaugh presented HB 1446 to standardize quality-of-care oversight for psychiatric residential treatment facilities for children; DHS said oversight may be absorbed and coordinated, while hospitals warned the change duplicates existing regulators. Committee took testimony but no motion was offered.
Representative Frank Kavanaugh, sponsor of House Bill 1446, told the committee the bill grew out of a mental-health work group and aims to address quality-of-care gaps for children in psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs) and similar beds. "This bill arose out of our mental health work group," he said, adding the legislation seeks a single standard of quality so children receive consistent care regardless of setting.
The bill was amended to explicitly include children who are victims of human trafficking. Kavanaugh also told the committee the work group had raised payment-rate issues and said lawmakers raised the rate paid to some facilities to $502 per…
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