HB 2611 – West Virginia
Status: Inactive / DeadYear Introduced: 2020
Link: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2611&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Ensuring Patient Safety Act. The purpose of this bill is to ensure patient safety by establishing minimum direct-care registered nurse to patient ratios. It provides for creating an “acuity-based patient classification system” and exempts critical access hospitals from its provisions. The bill defines terms and directs hospitals to establish an acuity standard. The bill establishes minimum direct-care registered nurse to patient ratios.
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