If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that the health, safety or welfare of any patient or patients served by an institution, as defined in § 19a-490, imperatively requires emergency action and the commissioner incorporates a finding to that effect in an order, the commissioner may issue a summary order to the holder of a license issued pursuant to § 19a-493 pending completion of any proceedings conducted pursuant to § 19a-494. These proceedings shall be promptly instituted and determined. The orders that the commissioner may issue shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Revoking or suspending the license; (2) prohibiting such institution from contracting with new patients or terminating its relationship with current patients; (3) limiting the license of such institution in any respect, including reducing the patient capacity or services which may be provided by such institution; and (4) compelling compliance with the applicable statutes or regulations of the department. Prior to issuing any summary order that revokes or suspends a hospital‘s license, the commissioner shall prepare, in collaboration with such hospital and one or more health care providers that provide services in the same geographic area as such hospital, a detailed plan for the relocation of such hospital’s inpatients and the provision of comparable services for such hospital’s outpatients.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-494a

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Health or the commissioner's designee. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
  • Hospital: means an establishment for the lodging, care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other abnormal physical or mental conditions and includes inpatient psychiatric services in general hospitals. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
  • Institution: means a hospital, short-term hospital special hospice, hospice inpatient facility, residential care home, nursing home facility, home health care agency, home health aide agency, behavioral health facility, assisted living services agency, substance abuse treatment facility, outpatient surgical facility, outpatient clinic, clinical laboratory, an infirmary operated by an educational institution for the care of students enrolled in, and faculty and employees of, such institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490