BILL NO. 103
(as introduced)
1st Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
67 Elizabeth II, 2018
Private Member's Bill
Collaborative Emergency Centres Act
Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre
First Reading: March 28, 2018
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
An Act Respecting
Collaborative Emergency Centres
AND WHEREAS among those problems are frequent closures of emergency facilities and reduced availability of primary care appointments;
THEREFORE be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Collaborative Emergency Centres Act.
(a) "collaborative emergency centre" means a community-centred form of health care including a primary health-care team, the capacity to provide urgent care and the capacity to provide emergency care to patients through emergency health services and transfer to an appropriate hospital facility;
(b) "Minister" means the Minister of Health and Wellness;
(c) "provincial health authority" means the provincial health authority as defined in the Health Authorities Act.
3 Subject to Section 5, the provincial health authority shall establish before the date established by the regulations a collaborative emergency centre at each hospital in the Province that does not have a full-service emergency room.
4 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister shall make regulations establishing the date before which a collaborative emergency centre must be established at each hospital in the Province that does not have a full-service emergency room.
(2) Subject to Section 5, the date before which a collaborative emergency centre must be established at each hospital in the Province that does not have a full-service emergency room must not be later than April 1, 2020.
(3) The exercise by the Minister of the authority contained in subsection (1) is a regulation within the meaning of the Regulations Act.
5 The money required for the purpose of this Act must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
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