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This bill modifies various provisions relating to health care in Missouri. The key provisions include: - Establishing "Will's Law" to require public schools to develop individualized health care and emergency plans for students with epilepsy or seizure disorders, and to provide training for school staff on caring for these students (Section 167.625). - Designating the third full week in September as "Sickle Cell Awareness Week" and October 1st as "Biliary Atresia Awareness Day" (Sections 9.236 and 9.350). - Expanding the eligibility for the medical student loan and loan repayment program to include students pursuing degrees in dentistry, dental hygiene, and psychiatry (Sections 191.500 and 191.520). - Enacting the "Compassionate Care Visitation Act" to require health care facilities to allow in-person visitation by designated "compassionate care visitors" to meet patients' or residents' physical, mental, or emotional needs (Section 191.1400). - Establishing the "Essential Caregiver Program Act" to require healthcare facilities to allow designated "essential caregivers" access to residents/patients during declared emergencies (Section 191.2290). - Making various changes to the oversight and regulation of home health agencies, hospices, and long-term care facilities, including modifying inspection requirements (Sections 197.100, 197.256, 197.258, 198.525, and 198.526). - Creating new registration and regulation requirements for "supplemental health care services agencies" that provide temporary healthcare personnel to facilities (Sections 198.640 to 198.648). The bill also contains various other provisions related to organ donation, sickle cell disease, and Alzheimer's disease oversight.

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