On the recordSeptember 5, 1996
Just to sort of further clarify, the Kaiser Permanente language was basically a clarification of the way it was written. It was written in the bill that if you are discharged in fewer hours than 48 hours--this bill says you have a safe haven for 48 hours and followup care has to be somewhere--you have to have care for 48 hours. You cannot be dumped out of the hospital after 6 hours, and that is the end of it. What Kaiser said is you need to make it clear that it is the health care provider who determines, in consultation with the mother, as to where that followup care is delivered. In other words, it is not just up to the mother as to where the followup care during the 48 hours was delivered. That was written into the bill. My amendment was to clarify that further.
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