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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-494a (2025)

Emergency summary orders

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If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that the health, safety or welfare of any patient or patients served by an institution, as defined in section 19a-490, imperatively requires emergency action and the commissioner incorporates a finding to that effect in an order, the commissioner may issue a summary order to the holder of a license issued pursuant to section 19a-493 pending completion of any proceedings conducted pursuant to section 19a-494. These proceedings shall be promptly instituted and determined. The orders that the commissioner may issue shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Revoking or suspending the license; (2) prohibiting such institution from contracting with new patients or terminating its relationship with current patients; (3) limiting the license of such institution in any respect, including reducing the patient capacity or services which may be provided by such institution; and (4) compelling compliance with the applicable statutes or regulations of the department. Prior to issuing any summary order that revokes or suspends a hospital's license, the commissioner shall prepare, in collaboration with such hospital and one or more health care providers that provide services in the same geographic area as such hospital, a detailed plan for the relocation of such hospital's inpatients and the provision of comparable services for such hospital's outpatients.

(P.A. 85-146, S. 3, 4; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 14-231, S. 14.)

History: P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 14-231 deleted reference to Sec. 19a-490(d) and (e), added provision re plan for relocation of inpatients and provision of services for outpatients and made technical changes.

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Cited in 1 case, 2014–2014 · leading case: Noel v. Lawrence & Mem'l Hosp., 53 Conn. Supp. 269 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2014).
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Noel v. Lawrence & Mem'l Hosp., 53 Conn. Supp. 269 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2014). · cites it 2× “’’If the proceedings under this statute are too slow, in emergencies, General Statutes § 19a-494a permits the commissioner to shut them down, limit them or compel them to their duties without even so much as a hearing.”
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