26:2H-14.2 - Nursing homes and residential health care facilities; heat emergency action plan; approval; annual review; notice of heat emergency - New Jersey Statutes

26:2H-14.2.  Nursing homes and residential health care facilities;  heat emergency action plan;  approval;  annual review;  notice of heat emergency
    a.  Every nursing home as defined in section 2 of P.L.1976, c. 120 (C. 30:13-2) or licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c. 136 (C. 26:2H-1 et seq.), and every residential health care facility as defined in section 1 of P.L.1953, c. 212 (C. 30:11A-1) or licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c. 136 (C. 26:2H-1 et seq.)  shall establish by written policy a heat emergency action plan which shall  include those procedures to be followed in the event of a heat emergency in  order to protect the health and welfare of its residents, and which shall be  approved by the department.  The department shall review a heat emergency  action plan established pursuant to this act at least once in each year.

    b.  A health care facility included within the provisions of this act shall  be required to notify the department immediately in the event of a heat emergency.

     L.1984, c. 114, s. 2, eff. Aug. 3, 1984.