{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-071","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Florida - Agency for Health Care Administration (State health-facility licensing agency)","state":"FL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"Agency for Health Care Administration, Division of Health Quality Assurance","authority":"Rulemaking authority 408.819, 408.821(4), F.S.; Law Implemented 408.819, 408.821(4), F.S. (recited)","instrument":"Emergency Rule 59AER20-1, Hospital Screening Requirements for Long-Term Care Facility Residents","title":"Every hospital must test any long-term care facility resident for COVID-19 by PCR before discharging the resident to any long-term care facility","dateIssued":"2020-05-05","effective":"2020-05-05","end":"90 days (superseded July 15, 2020 by 59AER20-6)","startDate":"2020-05-05","endDate":"2020-07-15","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["HC","QUAR"],"addressees":["every hospital licensed under Fla. Stat. ch. 395"],"clause":"59AER20-1 Hospital Screening Requirements for Long-Term Care Facility Residents. (a) Every hospital must test any long-term care facility resident for COVID-19, using an FDA-approved lab-based PCR test, prior to discharging the individual to any long-term care facility.... EFFECTIVE DATE: May 5, 2020","enforcement":"Fla. Stat. § 408.813 (administrative fines) and § 395.1065; § 408.821(4)","functions":["IP discharge planning (mandatory pre-discharge testing)","DX diagnostics","IN intake at long-term care facilities (admissions conditioned on hospital testing)"],"notes":"The first of the AHCA COVID-19 emergency rules; ties hospital discharges to long-term-care admissions.","sourceUrl":"https://www.flrules.org/gateway/readFile.asp?sid=4\u0026tid=23215900\u0026type=1\u0026file=59AER20-1.doc","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":31744,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-071","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-071","citation":"Agency for Health Care Administration, Division of Health Quality Assurance, Emergency Rule 59AER20-1, Hospital Screening Requirements for Long-Term Care Facility Residents (May 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-071)","stateName":"Florida","related":[]}