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Executive Order 20-21

Eighteenth Supplemental Emergency Declaration - Increasing Hospital and Nursing Facility Capacity, Extending Statutory Immunity

Governor Gina M. Raimondo · Rhode Island (State)

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Jurisdiction
Rhode Island
Level
State
Authority
R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 30, ch. 15; § 30-15-9(e)(1); tit. 23, ch. 8
Issued
2020-04-10 Apr. 10, 2020
Effective
2020-04-10
End
Restated in EO 20-33 (May 9, 2020) and EO 20-70 (Sept. 2, 2020); the hospital-capacity and certificate-of-need suspensions continued in EO 21-67 (June 2021), 21-81 (July 28, 2021) and 21-91 (Aug. 26, 2021) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Apr. 10, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersEvents and venuesSupply chain
Addressees
  • all licensed hospitals and nursing facilities
  • Rhode Island Convention Center and designated surge sites
Functions reached
  • IP inpatient surge
  • SX elective surgery capacity diverted
  • MC the State's convention center converted to a field hospital
  • RS nursing facility admissions
Collection
Rhode Island RI

Operative words

The hospital and nursing facility licensing statutes and rules, including but not limited to the nursing facility bed moratorium statute and rules, and certificate of need statutes and rules... are suspended with respect to all Rhode Island hospitals and nursing facilities solely to the extent the services they provide are in response to this Order. 2. All Rhode Island licensed hospitals must prepare and take whatever steps are necessary, including expanding medical/surgical and critical care capacity, to continue to evaluate and treat... everyone who presents at the hospital for care... 3. The creation of surge hospital sites such as the Rhode Island Convention Center, the former Citizens Bank operations center on Sockanosset Cross Road in Cranston and the former Lowe's store in North Kingstown.

Enforcement

Hospital and nursing-facility licensure (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 23-17)

Notes

The Rhode Island Convention Center, the State's principal meeting venue, was converted to a surge hospital by order.

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