Bill > S0798

This bill amends existing Florida laws to enhance health care patient protection. Key provisions include: 1. Expanding the list of disqualifying offenses for background screening of individuals working in health care settings, adding new offenses related to intellectual property, computer crimes, threats, extortion, organ trafficking, and others. 2. Defining the term "memory care provider" and requiring such providers to employ specific practices, such as resident assessments, minimum staffing ratios, and maintaining logs of memory care residents. 3. Prohibiting facilities from advertising or representing themselves as memory care providers unless they meet the criteria outlined in the new law. 4. Expanding the list of disqualifying offenses for level 2 background screening standards, adding new offenses related to failure to report child abuse, human trafficking, weapons of mass destruction, and others. The bill is intended to improve the safety and quality of health care services, particularly for vulnerable patients requiring memory care, by strengthening background screening requirements and establishing new standards for memory care providers.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/798