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Sen. Mann's bill would require owners to honor resident contracts and explain big fee hikes; committee lays it over
Summary
The Minnesota Senate Human Services Committee heard Sen. Mann's SF 3844, which would require new owners of nursing and assisted-living facilities to honor existing resident contracts, require documentation for fee increases above CPI-U, forbid requiring guardians for admission and add AED and response-time documentation requirements. After testimony from families, ombudsmen and providers, the committee laid the bill over for further work.
The Minnesota Senate Committee on Human Services on Monday heard testimony on Senate File 3844, authored by Sen. Mann, a bill that would require buyers of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities to honor existing resident contracts and to justify any housing or service charge increases above the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).
Sen. Mann told the panel the bill is a "person-centered" measure aimed at protecting residents as private-equity and other investors increasingly acquire care facilities. "If a facility changes ownership, the new license must honor the current contracts until they expire," she said, and companies that impose large price hikes would have to provide documentation and justification for those increases.
The bill also would prohibit facilities from requiring a resident to obtain a guardian as a condition of admission, require an automatic external defibrillator (AED) at the facility with staff…
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