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A 1865

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Chris Burdick and 5 co-sponsors

Establishes Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams to assess and advise facilities facing health, safety, or financial distress, enabling early multidisciplinary intervention.

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
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Bill Summary · A 1865

Summary — A1865 (Introduced Version / 1865A print)

Status: Introduced Jan 9, 2024; Passed Assembly May 13, 2025; Delivered to Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary (print number 1865A).

Related/companion: S1953, S6729. Prior-session: A5694.

Sponsors: Shanique Speight (primary), Sterley S. Stanley (primary), Linda Rosenthal (primary); cosponsors include Gabriel Rodriguez, Nikki Lucas, Dana Levenberg, Chris Burdick, Rebecca Seawright, Harvey Epstein.

Effective date: Immediately upon enactment.

Purpose
- Establish a state-led early-intervention oversight mechanism for long-term care facilities to prevent declines in resident health and safety and interruptions to needed health services.

Key provisions
- Creation of "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams":
- The Commissioner of Health must establish at least one team (may create more).
- Each team shall have four members with relevant expertise (examples listed in the bill): long-term care administration/management, financial management, nursing care, infection prevention, social work, quality improvement, safety, and continuing professional education.
- Teams will identify facilities requiring progressive oversight or direct intervention and work collaboratively with facilities to improve financial and operational performance with a focus on resident health and safety.

  • Development of evaluation indicators:

    • The Commissioner will establish specific indicators and thresholds to assess a facility’s operational and financial soundness and to identify operational/financial distress or risk thereof.
    • The Commissioner will also set indicators to evaluate a facility’s capacity to protect resident rights (per C.26:2H‑128) and to meet applicable licensing quality-of-care standards.

  • Deployment and authority:

    • When Department of Health surveys, inspections, or complaints indicate a facility is at risk per the established indicators, the Commissioner may dispatch a Mission Critical Team to evaluate the facility and advise on corrective measures.
    • Teams may also be dispatched at the request of facility management.

  • Facility obligations:

    • Facilities receiving a team must cooperate and grant the team and the Department access to physical plant operations/locations and to requested financial, operational, and programmatic information.

  • Rulemaking:

    • The Commissioner may adopt regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act to implement the law.

Who is affected
- Long-term care facilities and their residents (increased oversight, possible assistance/intervention).
- Department of Health (new team establishment, rulemaking, deployment responsibilities).
- Facility administrators and owners (obligation to cooperate and provide access to information).

Potential impact and considerations
- May enable earlier, multidisciplinary intervention to prevent quality or safety declines.
- Could increase regulatory oversight and reporting/access demands on facilities.
- The bill focuses on assessment and advisory intervention; it does not itself prescribe specific enforcement sanctions as part of the team’s role.
- Implementation details (number of teams, specific indicators, information-sharing protocols, confidentiality safeguards) will be defined by DOH rulemaking.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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