Bill Text: MA H1095 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creating a special commission on institutional long term care services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-08-30 - Accompanied a study order, see H05006 [H1095 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H1095-Introduced.html

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Kathi-Anne Reinstein

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act creating a special commission on institutional long term care services.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:	District/Address:
Kathi-Anne Reinstein	16th Suffolk
Louis L. Kafka	8th Norfolk
Patricia D. Jehlen	Second Middlesex
Todd M. Smola	1st Hampden
Thomas M. Stanley	9th Middlesex
Martin J. Walsh	13th Suffolk
Elizabeth Poirier	14th Bristol
Frank I. Smizik	15th Norfolk
Stephen L. DiNatale	3rd Worcester
Willie Mae Allen	6th Suffolk
Mark V. Falzone	9th Essex
Cleon H. Turner	1st Barnstable
John W. Scibak	2nd Hampshire
Steven J. D'Amico	4th Bristol
Kay Khan	11th Middlesex
John D. Keenan	7th Essex
Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.	34th Middlesex
Elizabeth A. Malia	11th Suffolk
Matthew C. Patrick	3rd Barnstable
Ann-Margaret Ferrante	5th Essex
Barbara A. L'Italien	18th Essex
Robert A. O'Leary	Cape and Islands
Thomas M. McGee	Third Essex and Middlesex
Kevin Aguiar	7th Bristol
Jonathan Hecht	29th Middlesex
Mary E. Grant	6th Essex
Bruce E. Tarr	First Essex and Middlesex
James J. O'Day	14th Worcester District
Linda Dean Campbell	15th Essex

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1127 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act creating a special commission on institutional long term care services.

                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, there shall be a special commission established to examine the Commonwealth’s institutional long term care system, which shall recommend a plan to provide a seamless transition to a continuum of long term care services for elders and persons with disabilities that recognizes the central place of consumer choice and consumer control in any long term care setting; evaluate options and prepare policy recommendations regarding potential savings to the commonwealth achieved by reducing the number of MassHealth licensed nursing home beds; develop recommendations as to the criteria to be used to determine which beds are de-licensed, provided that said criteria shall include at a minimum established Quality Indicators and other quality measures, such as staffing levels, turnover rate and training options for direct care staff; and to consider any programmatic or financial incentives to reduce the number of nursing home beds, convert said beds to subacute beds or other uses, or otherwise more efficiently use the institutional long term care facilities in the Commonwealth.
The commission shall consist of 20 members, 1 of whom shall be the secretary of health and human services or his designee, 1 of whom shall be the secretary of elder affairs or her designee, 1 of whom shall be the director of the office of Medicaid or her designee, 1 of whom shall be the Attorney General or her designee, 1 of whom shall be the Auditor or his designee, 1 of whom shall be the house chair of the joint committee on elder affairs, 1 of whom shall be the senate chair of the joint committee on elder affairs, 1 of whom shall be the senate chair of the joint committee on health care financing, 1 of whom shall be the house chair of the joint committee on health care financing, 1 of whom shall be a consumers or consumer surrogates member of the PCA quality home care workforce council approved by a majority of the Council, and 5 persons to be appointed by the governor, 1 of whom shall be a health care economist, 1 of whom shall be a representative of 1199SEIU, 1 of whom shall be a representative of the Statewide Independent Living Council, 1 of whom shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Extended Care Federation, 1 of whom shall be a representative of Mass Home Care, 1 of whom shall be a representative of MassAging, and 1 of whom shall be a representative of the Mass Alzheimers Association. The commission shall be co-chaired by the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on elder affairs.
The commission shall meet within 30 days of passage, and not less than quarterly thereafter, and shall release its first recommendations to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than December 31, 2008.