Va. move to allow nursing home cameras delayed

Original bill changed guidelines for voluntary regulations


A law passed in Virginia in 2013 for regulations to permit families to install security cameras in nursing home rooms was watered down to allow nursing facilities to refuse a request.

A new bill requiring nursing facilities to allow monitoring passed  the Senate but was amended in the House to delay implementation of the regulations for a year. The provision that nursing facilities be required to allow monitoring was eliminated, according to an article on The Virginian-Pilot website.

The amended bill set up a work group to make recommendations on the regulations that must be ready for review by the Virginia Board of Health and the General Assembly by Dec. 1.

The regulations would then go into effect on July 1, 2017.

Read the article.

 

 



March 22, 2016


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