Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-494a

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 19a-494a - Emergency summary orders

If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that the health, safety or welfare of any patient or patients served by an institution, as defined in section 19a-490, imperatively requires emergency action and the commissioner incorporates a finding to that effect in an order, the commissioner may issue a summary order to the holder of a license issued pursuant to section 19a-493 pending completion of any proceedings conducted pursuant to section 19a-494. These proceedings shall be promptly instituted and determined. The orders that the commissioner may issue shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Revoking or suspending the license;

(2) prohibiting such institution from contracting with new patients or terminating its relationship with current patients;

(3) limiting the license of such institution in any respect, including reducing the patient capacity or services which may be provided by such institution; and

(4) compelling compliance with the applicable statutes or regulations of the department. Prior to issuing any summary order that revokes or suspends a hospital's license, the commissioner shall prepare, in collaboration with such hospital and one or more health care providers that provide services in the same geographic area as such hospital, a detailed plan for the relocation of such hospital's inpatients and the provision of comparable services for such hospital's outpatients.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-494a

(P.A. 85-146, S. 3, 4; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 14-231, S. 14.)

Amended by P.A. 14-0231, S. 14 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2014 Regular Session, eff. 10/1/2014.