2022 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions
Section 19a-563h. - Nursing homes. Minimum staffing level requirements. Regulations.

(a) On or before January 1, 2022, the Department of Public Health shall (1) establish minimum staffing level requirements for nursing homes of three hours of direct care per resident per day, and (2) modify staffing level requirements for social work and recreational staff of nursing homes such that the requirements (A) for social work are one full-time social worker per sixty residents, and (B) for recreational staff are lower than the current requirements, as deemed appropriate by the Commissioner of Public Health.

(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 that set forth nursing home staffing level requirements to implement the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 21-185, S. 10.)

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