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This bill requires children's psychiatric facilities to have designated staff members visually supervise patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Specifically, the bill mandates that these facilities provide active visual supervision of each child, including through video monitoring, and prohibits children from being left unsupervised or alone with other children without active supervision by designated staff. The bill defines a "children's psychiatric facility" as a hospital contracted with a children's crisis intervention services unit or a private health care facility that provides acute child psychiatric or short-term psychiatric care.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/S1786