2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17b - Social Services
Chapter 319y - Long-Term Care
Section 17b-339 - Nursing Home Financial Advisory Committee. Duties. Membership. Reports. Annual meeting.

(a) There is established a Nursing Home Financial Advisory Committee to examine the financial solvency of nursing homes on an ongoing basis and to support the Departments of Social Services and Public Health in their mission to provide oversight to the nursing home industry on issues concerning the financial solvency of and quality of care provided by nursing homes. The committee shall consist of the Commissioner of Social Services, or his designee; the Commissioner of Public Health, or his designee; the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or his designee; the executive director of the Connecticut Health and Education Facilities Authority, or his designee; the president of LeadingAge Connecticut, Inc. or the president’s designee; and the executive director of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities, or the executive director’s designee. The Commissioner of Social Services or his designee and the Commissioner of Public Health or his designee shall be the chairpersons of the committee.

(b) The committee, upon receipt of a report relative to the financial solvency of and quality of care provided by nursing homes in the state, shall recommend appropriate action for improving the financial condition of any nursing home that is in financial distress to the Commissioner of Social Services and the Commissioner of Public Health. The Commissioner of Social Services shall submit quarterly reports to the committee concerning pending nursing home requests for interim rate increases. Such reports shall, without identifying any requesting facility by name, list the amount of each increase requested, the reason for the request and the rate that will result if the request is granted.

(c) Not later than January 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, the committee shall submit a report on its activities to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, human services and public health and to the select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a.

(d) Not later than January 1, 2010, and quarterly thereafter, the committee shall meet with the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, human services and public health, and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman to discuss activities of the committee relating to the financial solvency of and quality of care provided by nursing homes.

(P.A. 98-239, S. 26, 35; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 86; P.A. 10-26, S. 2; P.A. 12-197, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 98-239 effective July 1, 1998; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “which promotes” with “on issues concerning”, removing reference to 7 members, removing director of Office of Fiscal Analysis or his designee as member, removing representatives of nonprofit and for-profit nursing homes as members, and adding executive directors of Connecticut Association of Not-for-Profit Providers for the Aging and Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities or their designees as members, deleted former Subsec. (b) and added provision therein re committee chairpersons as provision of Subsec. (a), redesignated existing Subsecs. (c) and (d) as Subsecs. (b) and (c), amended redesignated Subsec. (b) by adding requirement that committee make recommendations to Commissioner of Public Health and provision requiring Commissioner of Social Services to submit quarterly reports to committee, amended redesignated Subsec. (c) by changing reporting date from January 1, 1999, to January 1, 2010, and adding appropriations committee as recipient of report and added new Subsec. (d) requiring committee to meet with chairpersons of human services, appropriations and public health committees on a quarterly basis, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 10-26 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a), (c) and (d), effective May 10, 2010; P.A. 12-197 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to executive director of the Connecticut Association of Not-For-Profit Providers for the Aging with reference to president of LeadingAge Connecticut, Inc.