Florida Boosts Penalties For Assault, Battery Of Hospital Employees

Well being Information Florida:
DeSantis Indicators Invoice To Enhance Penalties For Assaults On Well being Care Employees

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into regulation a measure that will increase the penalties for assault or battery of hospital personnel. The measure (HB 825) handed by the Senate on Might 2 and the Home a month earlier. Sponsors had been Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez, R-Doral, and Home sponsor Rep. Kimberly Berfield, R-Clearwater. The laws has been praised by well being employees. Information present bodily assaults on hospital personnel by sufferers, relations and others are on the rise, and that nurses are more than likely to be the victims. (5/25)

In associated information from Ohio —

Columbus Dispatch:
OSHA Cites Nationwide Kids’s For Not Defending Workers

The Occupational Security and Well being Administration issued citations this week to Nationwide Kids’s Hospital after an investigation into accusations that it failed to guard staff from affected person assaults. The U.S. Division of Labor company opened the investigation in November on the Columbus hospital’s Large Heaps Behavioral Well being Pavilion after a criticism alleging unsafe working circumstances, the Labor Division introduced Thursday. It inspected the power a number of occasions from Nov. 25 to Might 19, earlier than issuing the 2 citations Monday. (Shuda, 5/25)

In well being information from Minnesota —

Minnesota Public Radio:
Paid Depart Is Now Minnesota Legislation: What You Want To Know

After years of consideration, Minnesota will begin ushering in a paid household and medical go away program that doesn’t rely upon the place an individual works. Gov. Tim Walz signed the laws Thursday, capping a tough push that beforehand led to letdown and have become a actuality after slender passage by Democratic majorities this yr. (Bakst, 5/25)

Minnesota Public Radio:
Minnesota Sees An Enhance In Suicide Deaths

After a dip through the first yr of the pandemic, suicide charges in Minnesota rose once more throughout 2021 and 2022. A brand new report from the state Division of Well being launched Thursday mentioned ultimate information present 808 suicide deaths in 2021, and preliminary numbers present 831 suicide deaths in 2022. (Wiley, 5/25)

Minnesota Public Radio:
Remedy At Faculty? In These Minneapolis Excessive Faculties, College students Get Care On Their Personal Phrases

In any respect 9 of Minneapolis’ huge public excessive colleges, college students can have weekly speak remedy appointments, get an IUD or some other type of contraception, check for STIs, get a bodily, immunized and extra — all throughout the partitions of their faculty. (Birnstengel, 5/26)

In information from Colorado and Oregon —

St. Louis Submit-Dispatch:
Medicaid Renewal Course of Underway As Letters Go Out To 37,000 Missourians

State welfare officers despatched out greater than 37,000 letters to low-income Missourians earlier this month asking them to resume their taxpayer-funded medical insurance for the primary time in three years. As a part of a nationwide effort, Missouri and different states started the method of hunting down individuals who now not qualify for Medicaid protection on April 1. (Erickson, 5/25)

AP:
Colorado Embraces Broad Legislation Requiring Affected person Consent For Pelvic Exams Whereas Sedated 

Colorado medical suppliers might want to get sufferers’ prior consent earlier than medical college students can carry out pelvic exams on them whereas they’re unconscious for a process beneath a invoice signed into regulation Thursday. In signing off on the regulation in her capability as performing governor, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera put Colorado with a minimum of 20 different states which have consent legal guidelines on the books. However Colorado’s goes far past different states’ as a result of it requires that the medical college students be named forward of time and meet the affected person — a the 1st step bioethicist is anxious would possibly impede college students’ possibilities to be taught. (Bedayn, 5/25)

Axios:
Oregon Invoice Mandating Fertility Remedy Protection Stalls Once more

Regardless of bipartisan assist, a invoice that may require that some insurers cowl fertility therapy has as soon as once more stalled in Oregon’s Democratic-controlled Legislature. Oregon’s fertility fee is likely one of the lowest within the nation. Twenty different states have handed a mandate for insurers to cowl fertility care, in keeping with Resolve: The Nationwide Infertility Affiliation. (Gebel, 5/25)