Bill Text: FL S0634 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Responsibilities of Health Care Facilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-01 - Died on Calendar [S0634 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0634-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 634
       
       
        
       By Senator Stargel
       
       
       
       
       
       15-00530-15                                            2015634__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to responsibilities of health care
    3         facilities; repealing s. 383.336, F.S., relating to
    4         practice parameters for physicians performing
    5         Caesarean section deliveries in provider hospitals;
    6         amending s. 395.1051, F.S.; requiring a hospital to
    7         notify certain obstetrical physicians within a
    8         specified timeframe before the hospital closes its
    9         obstetrical department or ceases to provide
   10         obstetrical services; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 383.336, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
   15         Section 2. Section 395.1051, Florida Statutes, is amended
   16  to read:
   17         395.1051 Duty to notify patients and physicians.—
   18         (1) An appropriately trained person designated by each
   19  licensed facility shall inform each patient, or an individual
   20  identified pursuant to s. 765.401(1), in person about adverse
   21  incidents that result in serious harm to the patient.
   22  Notification of outcomes of care that result in harm to the
   23  patient under this section does shall not constitute an
   24  acknowledgment or admission of liability and may not, nor can it
   25  be introduced as evidence.
   26         (2) A hospital shall notify each obstetrical physician who
   27  has privileges at the hospital at least 120 days before the
   28  hospital closes its obstetrical department or ceases to provide
   29  obstetrical services.
   30         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.