Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and other long-term care facilities and providers, and to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers.

6/7/2007--Introduced.
Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and state background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to:
(1) require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and other long-term care facilities and providers; and
(2) prohibit hiring of abusive workers. Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure that the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System of the FBI has the capacity to store and retrieve fingerprints from its database. Provides that, in the case where a direct patient access employee is convicted of a crime following the initial national criminal history background check, and the employee's fingerprint matches the prints on file with the FBI, the FBI shall inform the state law enforcement department in order for the state to inform the skilled nursing facility, nursing facility, or long-term care facility or provider of such conviction.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI]
• and 15 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN]
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS]
  • Sen. Norm Coleman [R, MN]
  • Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME]
  • Sen. Pete Domenici [R, NM]
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN]
  • Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI]
  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR]
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO]
  • Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
  • Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]
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Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1577

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 07, 2007

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• Jun 07, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• Jun 07, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7353-7354)
• Introduced on Jun 07, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.3078

Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Aged
• Criminal justice
• Criminal justice information
• 19 more
• Data banks
• Elder abuse
• Employee selection
• Federal-state relations
• Fingerprints
• Government information
• Identification of criminals
• Labor
• Long-term care
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical personnel
• Medicare
• Medicine
• Nursing homes
• Personnel records
• State and local government
• Technology
• Welfare

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March 18, 2008 Senate Budget to Include $160 Million for Elder Abuse Prevention (USA)

The Senate approved an amendment for the funding last week, but the money, which would total $160 million, will only be available upon the Senate's passage of the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 1577). ...

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January 02, 2008 Supreme Court Update MetLife v. Glenn, No. 06-923, 461 F.3d 660 ...

Senator Kohl (D - WI) has introduced last year S.1577, the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act. The legislation would require long-term care facilities and providers to conduct criminal history background checks before hiring a ...

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December 12, 2007 S.1577 - Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to require screening, including national criminal history background checks, of direct patient access employees of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, ...

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