BILL NO. 67

(as introduced)

1st Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
67 Elizabeth II, 2018

Private Member's Bill

Health Authorities Act
(amended)

Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre

First Reading: February 27, 2018

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill requires the provincial health authority to publish quarterly certain information in respect of each hospital and to publish annually a capital expenditure plan.

An Act to Amend Chapter 32
of the Acts of 2014,
the Health Authorities Act,
to Require Quarterly Reports
and an Annual Expenditure Plan

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Chapter 32 of the Acts of 2014, the Health Authorities Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 60 the following Section:

60A (1) The provincial health authority shall publish for each hospital, at least quarterly,

(a) the percentage of patients admitted to an emergency room who had or did not have a primary care provider;

(b) for each emergency room in the hospital, the registration-to-admission target wait time and the average registration-to-admission wait time for each day;

(c) the number of alternative level-of-care patients and long-term care patients who are awaiting placement elsewhere;

(d) the percentage of beds in each ward or hospital floor occupied by alternative level-of-care patients and long-term care patients who are awaiting placement elsewhere;

(e) the average wait time between intake appointment and admission to mental health community-based programs or services, identified by at least the 50th and 90th percentiles; and

(f) the percentage of patients admitted to mental health community-based programs or services within six weeks of an initial appointment at the hospital in respect of a mental health issue.

(2) The provincial health authority shall publish annually a capital expenditure plan, which must include an estimate of deferred maintenance needs.

 

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