2011 Connecticut Code
Title 19a Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368v Health Care Institutions
Sec. 19a-522b. Chronic and convalescent nursing homes and rest homes with nursing supervision: Maintenance and preservation of patient medical records.

      Sec. 19a-522b. Chronic and convalescent nursing homes and rest homes with nursing supervision: Maintenance and preservation of patient medical records. A chronic and convalescent nursing home or a rest home with nursing supervision shall preserve all patient medical records, irrespective of whether such records are in a printed or electronic format, for not less than seven years following the date of the patient's discharge from such facility or, in the case of a patient who dies at the facility, for not less than seven years following the date of death. A chronic and convalescent nursing home or rest home with nursing supervision may maintain all or any portion of a patient's medical record in an electronic format that complies with accepted professional standards for such medical records. In accordance with section 19a-36, the Commissioner of Public Health shall amend the Public Health Code in conformity with the provisions of this section.

      (P.A. 10-117, S. 65.)

      History: P.A. 10-117 effective July 1, 2010.