Bill Text: NJ S1109 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires urgent care facility health care providers to possess same credentials and degrees applicable to hospital emergency room health care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S1109 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S1109-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator BRITNEE N. TIMBERLAKE
District 34 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires urgent care facility health care providers to possess same credentials and degrees applicable to hospital emergency room health care providers.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning urgent care facilities and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Each health care provider employed by an urgent care facility in this State shall be required to possess any credential and degree as would be required of the health care provider if the health care provider was employed in an emergency room department of a general acute care hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
b. As used in this section:
"Health care provider" means an individual who provides a health care service to a patient, and includes, but is not limited to, a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner, or any other health care professional acting within the scope of a valid license or certification issued pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
"Urgent care facility" means a health care facility that offers episodic, walk-in care for the treatment of acute, but not life-threatening, health conditions.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that any health care provider employed by an urgent care facility in this State is to possess the same credentials or degrees that would be required of the health care provider if that health care provider was employed in an emergency room department of a general acute care hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
The bill defines "urgent care facility" to mean a health care facility that offers episodic, walk-in care for the treatment of acute, but not life-threatening, health conditions. The bill defines "health care provider" to mean an individual who provides a health care service to a patient, and includes, but is not limited to, a licensed physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, or any other health care professional acting within the scope of a valid license or certification issued pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
