ARIZONA STATE
SENATE
Fifty-Fourth
Legislature, Second Regular Session
DHS; long-term care facility surveyors
Purpose
Appropriates
$3,300,000 and 44 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in FY 2021 from the
state General Fund to the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) to hire
additional
long-term care facility surveyors.
Background
DHS is responsible for the licensure, regulation and inspection of
health care institutions in Arizona, including long-term care facilities. Health care institutions include every
place, institution, building and agency, whether organized for profit or not,
that provides facilities with medical services, nursing services, behavioral
health services, health screening services, other health-related services,
supervisory care services, personal care services or direct care services and
includes home health agencies, outdoor behavioral health care programs and
hospice service agencies (A.R.S. § 36-401).
S.B.
1086 appropriates $3,300,000 and 44 FTE positions in FY 2021 from the state
General Fund to DHS to hire additional long-term care facility surveyors.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $3,300,000 and 44 FTE positions
in FY 2021 from the state General Fund to DHS to hire additional long-term care
facility surveyors.
2. Becomes effective on the general effective
date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 17, 2020
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