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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 493 Requires Department of Health to Create Acute Care Mental Health Bed Registry
Last action · February 5, 2025: Referred to HEALTH, Feb. 5, 2025Sponsors: Carol Kazeem and 15 others
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What This Bill Would Do
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is required to develop and administer a web-based registry to track bed availability, facility security levels, and waiting lists for temporary inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and treatment.
Health care professionals will use the registry to locate available s for patients requiring involuntary or voluntary inpatient examination and treatment, while participating facilities must update bed counts every eight hours.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Health care professionals
Physicians, osteopaths, physician assistants, and certified registered nurse practitioners gain searchable access to a web-based bed registry to locate inpatient psychiatric beds for patients.
Mental health facilities
Participating facilities must submit capacity and service data, permit continuous monitoring of contact information, and update available bed counts every eight hours.
Department of Health
The department is tasked with developing, administering, promulgating regulations for, and maintaining public access to the acute care mental health bed registry.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is allowed to search the acute care mental health bed registry?
What information will be available to the general public on the website?
How often must participating facilities update their bed availability?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to HEALTH, Feb. 5, 2025
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Discoveries
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Mandatory Real-Time Bed Tracking
Shifts hospital reporting requirements to mandate eight-hour updates for acute care mental health beds through a centralized web registry.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance65How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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