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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 135C.16, subsection 1, Code 1997, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. In addition to the inspections required by sections 1 4 135C.9 and 135C.38, the department shall make or cause to be 1 5 made such further unannounced inspections as it deems 1 6 necessary to adequately enforce this chapter. At least one 1 7 general unannounced inspection shall be conducted for each 1 8 health care facility within afifteen-monththirty-month 1 9 period. The inspector shall show identification to the person 1 10 in charge of the facility and state that an inspection is to 1 11 be made before beginning the inspection. An employee of the 1 12 department who gives unauthorized advance notice of an 1 13 inspection made or planned to be made under this subsection or 1 14 section 135C.38 shall be disciplined as determined by the 1 15 director, except that if the employee is employed pursuant to 1 16 the merit system provisions of chapter 19A the discipline 1 17 shall not exceed the discipline authorized pursuant to that 1 18 chapter. 1 19 Sec. 2. Section 135C.38, subsection 3, Code 1997, is 1 20 amended to read as follows: 1 21 3. An inspection made pursuant to a complaint filed under 1 22 section 135C.37 need not be limited to the matter or matters 1 23 complained of; howeverHowever, the inspection shall not be a 1 24 general inspection unless the complaint inspection coincides 1 25 with a scheduled general inspection or unless problems in 1 26 addition to those included in the complaint are visible to the 1 27 inspector. Upon arrival at the facility to be inspected, the 1 28 inspector shall show identification to the person in charge of 1 29 the facility and state that an inspection is to be made, 1 30 before beginning the inspection. Upon request of either the 1 31 complainant or the department or committee, the complainant or 1 32 the complainant's representative or both may be allowed the 1 33 privilege of accompanying the inspector during any on-site 1 34 inspection made pursuant to this section. The inspector may 1 35 cancel the privilege at any time if the inspector determines 2 1 that the privacy of any resident of the facility to be 2 2 inspected would otherwise be violated. The dignity of the 2 3 resident shall be given first priority by the inspector and 2 4 others. 2 5 Sec. 3. RISK-BASED INSPECTIONS. 2 6 1. The department of inspections and appeals shall develop 2 7 and implement a risk-based inspections system for health care 2 8 facilities which are licensed only by the state pursuant to 2 9 chapter 135C. The risk-based system shall be used in 2 10 inspections of health care facilities beginning with the first 2 11 inspection of the facility subsequent to the inspection of 2 12 that facility during the period July 1, 1995, through December 2 13 31, 1997. 2 14 2. The department of inspections and appeals shall submit 2 15 all of the following to the joint appropriations subcommittee 2 16 on oversight, audit, and government reform, to the governor, 2 17 and to the legislative fiscal bureau: 2 18 a. On or before August 1, 1997, a report which includes 2 19 all of the following: 2 20 (1) The criteria to be used in the risk-based inspections 2 21 system. 2 22 (2) The survey and complaint activities completed in 2 23 fiscal year 1995-1996 and fiscal year 1996-1997 for health 2 24 care facilities licensed only by the state. 2 25 b. On or before February 1, 1998, an interim report, and 2 26 on or before February 1, 1999, a final report, regarding the 2 27 progress of the risk-based inspections system. 2 28 Any of the reports submitted may also include such 2 29 additional information as requested by the joint 2 30 appropriations subcommittee on oversight, audit, and 2 31 government reform and may contain recommendations by the 2 32 department of inspections and appeals of legislative action or 2 33 program change. 2 34 EXPLANATION 2 35 This bill makes changes in the health care facilities 3 1 chapter of the Code. 3 2 Section 1 of the bill revises the period during which at 3 3 least one general inspection of a health care facility must be 3 4 made by the department of inspections and appeals from at 3 5 least during every 15-month period to at least during every 3 6 30-month period. 3 7 Section 2 of the bill provides that an inspection performed 3 8 in response to a complaint may be expanded beyond the 3 9 complaint if problems in addition to those included in the 3 10 complaint are visible to the inspector. 3 11 Section 3 of the bill requires the department of 3 12 inspections and appeals to develop and implement a risk-based 3 13 inspection system, to be implemented during the general 3 14 inspection of a health care facility subsequent to the general 3 15 inspection performed during the period beginning July 1, 1995, 3 16 through December 31, 1997. The bill also requires the 3 17 department to submit interim and final reports regarding the 3 18 risk-based inspections system to the joint appropriations 3 19 subcommittee on oversight, audit, and government reform, to 3 20 the governor and to the legislative fiscal bureau at times 3 21 specified in the bill. 3 22 LSB 1859DP 77 3 23 pf/sc/14
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