PRINTER'S NO. 2238
No. 172 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY E. Z. TAYLOR, PITTS, MORRIS, HERSHEY, VROON, FOX,
HERMAN, WASS, FLICK AND DORR, OCTOBER 9, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, OCTOBER 15, 1985
A RESOLUTION
1 Directing the Department of Health to license Home Health
2 Agencies.
3 WHEREAS, the General Assembly amended the Health Care
4 Facilities Act in 1980, requiring the Department of Health to
5 license and regulate Home Health Care Agencies; and
6 WHEREAS, The number of Home Health Care Agencies in this
7 Commonwealth has tripled in the last several years; and
8 WHEREAS, Hospital cost containment initiatives have shortened
9 acute care patients' length of stay and expanded the population
10 which may need home health; and
11 WHEREAS, The Department of Health estimates that there are at
12 least 50 Home Health Care providers in this Commonwealth that
13 are not certified as meeting Federal Medicare standards; and
14 WHEREAS, The Department of Health has successfully submitted
15 regulations to license Home Health Care Agencies through the
16 regulatory review process; therefore be it
17 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives hereby urges the
1 Governor to instruct and direct the Secretary of Health to
2 comply with State law enacted in 1980 and license Home Health
3 Care Agencies.
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