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Establishing a psychiatric patient placement clearinghouse and inpatient psychiatric bed tracking system work group
Topics:Health careMental health & addiction
Same legislation: HF 624
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 20, 2019
- Done: House committeeFebruary 28, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires the department of human services (DHS) to convene a psychiatric patient placement clearinghouse and inpatient psychiatric bed tracking system work group for the 2019 legislative interim. The bill directs the work group to examine issues and develop policy recommendations relating to the establishment of a statewide clearinghouse for the purposes of placing psychiatric patients in the appropriate level of care in close proximity to a patient’s home and to recommend improvements to the psychiatric bed tracking system.
Read the full explanation
The work group shall receive information from the department of inspections and appeals, the Iowa hospital association, the national alliance on mental illness, and integrated telehealth partners relating to the use of telepsychiatry services and the sharing of patient information for patient treatment and care coordination purposes and relating to improvements to the inpatient psychiatric bed tracking system. The bill provides that the work group shall meet during the 2019 legislative interim and submit findings and recommendations in a report to the governor and the general assembly by December 31, 2019.
House subcommittee
Named February 20, 2019. On February 26, 2019 it recommended amendment and passage.
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