Chief Patron: Howell
Adult Fatality Review Team Staffing (SB 635)

Item 287 #3s

Language
Page 245, line 53, strike "$6,987,695" and insert "$7,092,695".
Page 245, line 53, strike "$7,020,915" and insert "$7,125,915".

Explanation
(This amendment adds general funds each year and one full-time equivalent position at the Department of Health to fund the costs associated with creating an Adult Fatality Review Team to review suspicious deaths of adults in order to create a body of information to help prevent future fatalities, pursuant to Senate Bill 635. The funding supports a full-time geriatric nurse to collect, interpret and summarize cases, which are extensive in information. The nurse would be part of the team charged with reviewing the death of any adult age 60 or older who was the subject of an adult protective services investigation or whose death was due to abuse or neglect or acts suggesting possible abuse or neglect.)