Sec. 19a-491. (Formerly Sec. 19-577). License and certificate required. Application. Fees. Minimum service quality standards. Regulations.
Sec. 19a-491. (Formerly Sec. 19-577). License and certificate required. Application. Fees. Minimum service quality standards. Regulations. (a) No person acting
individually or jointly with any other person shall establish, conduct, operate or maintain
an institution in this state without a license as required by this chapter. Application for
such license shall be made to the Department of Public Health upon forms provided by
it and shall contain such information as the department requires, which may include
affirmative evidence of ability to comply with reasonable standards and regulations
prescribed under the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner may require as a
condition of licensure that an applicant sign a consent order providing reasonable assurances of compliance with the Public Health Code. The commissioner may issue more
than one chronic disease hospital license to a single institution until such time as the
state offers a rehabilitation hospital license.
(b) If any person acting individually or jointly with any other person shall own real
property or any improvements thereon, upon or within which an institution, as defined
in subsection (c) of section 19a-490, is established, conducted, operated or maintained
and is not the licensee of the institution, such person shall submit a copy of the lease
agreement to the department at the time of any change of ownership and with each
license renewal application. The lease agreement shall, at a minimum, identify the person
or entity responsible for the maintenance and repair of all buildings and structures within
which such an institution is established, conducted or operated. If a violation is found
as a result of an inspection or investigation, the commissioner may require the owner
to sign a consent order providing assurances that repairs or improvements necessary for
compliance with the provisions of the Public Health Code shall be completed within a
specified period of time. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any property
or improvements owned by a person licensed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section to establish, conduct, operate or maintain an institution on or
within such property or improvements.
(c) Notwithstanding any regulation to the contrary, the Commissioner of Public
Health shall charge the following fees for the biennial licensing and inspection of the
following institutions: (1) Chronic and convalescent nursing homes, per site, three hundred fifty dollars; (2) chronic and convalescent nursing homes, per bed, five dollars; (3)
rest homes with nursing supervision, per site, three hundred fifty dollars; (4) rest homes
with nursing supervision, per bed, five dollars; (5) outpatient dialysis units and outpatient
surgical facilities, five hundred dollars; (6) mental health residential facilities, per site,
three hundred dollars; (7) mental health residential facilities, per bed, five dollars; (8)
hospitals, per site, seven hundred fifty dollars; (9) hospitals, per bed, seven dollars and
fifty cents; (10) nonstate agency educational institutions, per infirmary, seventy-five
dollars; and (11) nonstate agency educational institutions, per infirmary bed, twenty-five dollars.
(d) Notwithstanding any regulation, the commissioner shall charge the following
fees for the triennial licensing and inspection of the following institutions: (1) Residential care homes, per site, four hundred fifty dollars; and (2) residential care homes, per
bed, four dollars and fifty cents.
(e) Notwithstanding any regulation, the commissioner shall charge the following
fees for the licensing and inspection every four years of the following institutions: (1)
Outpatient clinics that provide either medical or mental health service, and well-child
clinics, except those operated by municipal health departments, health districts or licensed nonprofit nursing or community health agencies, one thousand dollars; (2) maternity homes, per site, two hundred dollars; and (3) maternity homes, per bed, ten dollars.
(f) The commissioner shall charge a fee of four hundred fifty dollars for the technical
assistance provided for the design, review and development of an institution's construction, sale or change in ownership.
(g) The commissioner may require as a condition of the licensure of home health
care agencies and homemaker-home health aide agencies that each agency meet minimum service quality standards. In the event the commissioner requires such agencies
to meet minimum service quality standards as a condition of their licensure, the commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to define
such minimum service quality standards, which shall (1) allow for training of homemaker-home health aides by adult continuing education, (2) require a registered nurse
to visit and assess each patient receiving homemaker-home health aide services as often
as necessary based on the patient's condition, but not less than once every sixty days,
and (3) require the assessment prescribed by subdivision (2) of this subsection to be
completed while the homemaker-home health aide is providing services in the patient's
home.
(1953, 1955, S. 2052d; P.A. 77-601, S. 9, 11; 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-610, S. 23; P.A. 80-127, S. 1; P.A. 84-546,
S. 167, 173; P.A. 85-588, S. 1; P.A. 89-350, S. 6; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 14, 117; P.A. 93-74, S. 44, 67; 93-201, S.
9, 24; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-415, S. 9; P.A. 94-196, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-160, S. 12, 69; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-139, S.
12, 13; P.A. 97-112, S. 2; 97-297; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 28; P.A. 05-64, S. 1.)
History: Sec. 19-33 transferred to Sec. 19-577 in 1977; P.A. 77-601 added exception re continued operation of certain
facilities in operation as of January 1, 1979; P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services,
effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-610 added Subsec. (b) re validity of certain licenses issued before October 1, 1979;
P.A. 80-127 added Subsec. (c) re certificate of compliance with public health code; Sec. 19-577 transferred to Sec. 19a-491 in 1983; P.A. 84-546 made technical change to Subsec. (a), deleting obsolete provision re home health care agency,
homemaker-home health aide agency or coordination, assessment and monitoring agency in operation on January 1, 1979;
P.A. 85-588 added Subsec. (d) to include in the definition of "institution" any person or agency who advertises, arranges
or provides homemaker-home health aides or services in a patient's home; P.A. 89-350 added the language on consent
orders, deleted former Subsec. (b) re period of validity for licenses and renewal and relettered the remaining Subsecs. and
changed "annually" to "biennially" in Subsec. (b); May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 added new Subsec. (d) to establish fees for
biennial licensing and inspection of chronic and convalescent nursing homes, rest homes with nursing supervision, homes
for the aged, ambulatory facilities, mental health residential facilities, hospitals, nonstate agency educational facilities and
for technical assistance for design, review and development; P.A. 93-74 amended Subsec. (d) by exempting municipal
health departments, health districts or licensed nursing or community health and well-child clinics from the biennial
licensing and inspection fees, by reducing educational institution infirmary fee from $500 to $75 and by instituting a per-bed charge of $25, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-201 amended Subsec. (d)(13) to add "infirmary", effective July 1, 1993;
P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health
and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-415 added Subsec. (e) authorizing commissioner to develop minimum
service quality standards; P.A. 94-196 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize issuance of more than one chronic disease hospital
license to a single institution until the state offers a rehabilitation hospital license, effective June 9, 1994 (Revisor's note:
In 1995 the words "said chapter and sections" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with "this chapter"); P.A. 95-160
amended Subsec. (e) by deleting a reference to coordination, assessment and monitoring agencies and made a technical
change, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction
Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-139 changed effective date
of P.A. 95-160 but without affecting this section; P.A. 97-112 replaced "homes for the aged" with "residential care homes";
P.A. 97-297 amended Subsec. (e) to add provision re training of homemaker-home health care aides by continuing education; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3 amended Subsec. (b) by requiring submittal of a lease agreement and deleting provisions
re biennial issuance of certificate of compliance with Public Health Code, deleted former Subsec. (c) defining "institution",
redesignating existing Subsec. (d) as new Subsec. (c) and adding licensing and inspection requirement for outpatient
dialysis units and outpatient surgical facilities, deleting references to residential care homes and ambulatory facilities and
deleting provision re technical assistance fee, added new Subsec. (d) to change license renewal for residential care homes
from biennially to triennially and to increase fees from $300 per site and $3 per bed to $450 per site and $4.50 per bed,
added new Subsec. (e) to require license renewal and inspection with fees every four years for outpatient clinics and
maternity homes, added new Subsec. (f) re technical assistance fee, redesignated existing Subsec. (e) as new Subsec. (g)
and made technical changes, effective January 1, 2004; P.A. 05-64 amended Subsec. (g) by designating existing language
re regulations allowing for training as Subdiv. (1), making technical changes and adding new Subdivs. (1) and (2) re
additional requirements for regulations establishing minimum service quality standards, effective June 2, 2005.
See Sec. 29-315 re automatic fire extinguishing systems in licensed chronic and convalescent nursing homes or rest
homes with nursing supervision.
Subsec. (a):
Cited. 206 C. 316. Cited. 219 C. 657.