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HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 6<br /> – Skilled nursing facility, survey

HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 6

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HJM006................................................by HEALTH AND WELFARE
SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging
Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services to allow resident
advocate groups in Idaho and industry representatives to negotiate on how
to improve the survey process in skilled nursing facilities in Idaho, to
support measures to improve quality care in skilled nursing facilities in
Idaho and to affirm the desire to be efficient with tax dollars.

02/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/08    Rpt prt - to Health/Wel
02/14    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/15    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/19    3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
    Floor Sponsor - McGeachin
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/20    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Health/Wel
02/26    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
02/27    10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
    Floor Sponsor - McGee
    Title apvd - to House
02/28    To enrol
02/29    Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/03    Pres signed
03/04    To Secretary of State

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                 HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 6

                              BY HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEE

  1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
  2    TO THE  PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED  STATES
  3        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-
  4        SENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRES-
  5        SIONAL  DELEGATION  REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE
  6        UNITED STATES.

  7        We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of  the
  8    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in  the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth
  9    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:

 10        WHEREAS, the federal survey process through which skilled nursing  facili-
 11    ties are inspected is a federal process which is not available for significant
 12    state deviation or modification; and
 13        WHEREAS, the federal survey process was developed in 1987 and was designed
 14    for typical residents in skilled nursing facilities at that time; and
 15        WHEREAS,  the  acuity  levels  of  patients now being cared for in skilled
 16    nursing facilities are significantly elevated from those of twenty years  ago;
 17    and
 18        WHEREAS,  the  federal  survey process does not allow for trained, experi-
 19    enced surveyors to provide consulting of any kind  when  surveying  a  skilled
 20    nursing facility; and
 21        WHEREAS,  the  punitive  and negative design of the federal survey process
 22    often negatively impacts the morale, turnover and motivation of the  workforce
 23    of the skilled nursing facility; and
 24        WHEREAS,  the  costs of the very expensive federal survey process outweigh
 25    the benefits; and
 26        WHEREAS, the state of Idaho has produced a  survey  process  for  assisted
 27    living  providers  which  is not punitive, provides for significant consulting
 28    and, as current feedback indicates, a confidence building and learning experi-
 29    ence for employees of the facility.
 30        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second  Regular  Ses-
 31    sion  of  the  Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and
 32    the Senate concurring therein, that the Idaho Legislature urges the Idaho con-
 33    gressional delegation, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the  United
 34    States  Department  of  Health and Human Services, resident advocate groups in
 35    Idaho and industry representatives to negotiate  how  to  improve  the  survey
 36    process  in skilled nursing facilities in Idaho and that the Idaho Legislature
 37    supports measures to improve quality care in the skilled nursing facilities in
 38    Idaho and the Idaho Legislature also affirms our desire to be  efficient  with
 39    tax dollars.
 40        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Idaho Legislature urges the Idaho congres-
 41    sional  delegation  to  request  support and necessary funding from the United
 42    States Congress for a pilot project in the state of  Idaho  to  implement  the
 43    changes negotiated by the aforementioned groups.
 44        BE  IT  FURTHER  RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa-

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  1    tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of  this
  2    Memorial to the President of the United States, to the Secretary of the United
  3    States Department of Health and Human Services, to the President of the Senate
  4    and  the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the congres-
  5    sional delegation representing the state of  Idaho  in  the  Congress  of  the
  6    United States.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 17792

This resolution would compel Idaho's congressional delegation and
others to improve the federal survey process for skilled nursing
facilities.



                           FISCAL NOTE

There is no fiscal impact of this resolution.






Contact
Name: Rep. Janice McGeachin 
Phone: (208) 332-1000


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                           HJM 6