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This bill regulates central service technicians in healthcare facilities in Massachusetts. It defines a central service technician as someone who decontaminates, inspects, assembles, packages, and sterilizes reusable medical instruments or devices. The bill requires healthcare facilities to only employ central service technicians who have passed a nationally accredited central service exam and hold a relevant credential, or were employed as a central service technician before December 31, 2022. It also requires central service technicians to complete 10 hours of continuing education annually. The bill provides exceptions for healthcare practitioners, students/interns, and those with other relevant credentials to perform central service technician tasks. The Department of Public Health is authorized to adopt regulations to implement the bill, which will take effect 180 days after the effective date.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2322