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H780 • 2025

An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program

An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program

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Sponsor
Kate Lipper-Garabedian
Last action
2025-08-28
Official status
Accompanied a new draft, see H4432
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program

An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 780) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and others that the Executive Office of Health and Human Services be authorized to establish a hospital to home partnership program.
  • Elder Affairs.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-08-28 House

    Accompanied a new draft, see H4432

  2. 2025-06-27 Joint

    Referred, pursuant to an order adopted by the two branches, to the committee on Aging and Independence

  3. 2025-04-29 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/12/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Elder Affairs

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act establishing the hospital to home partnership program
By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 780) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and others that the Executive Office of Health and Human Services be authorized to establish a hospital to home partnership program. Elder Affairs.

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Bill H.780

SECTION 1. Chapter 19A of the General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after section 4D the following section:-

Section 4E. (a) There is hereby established within the executive office of health and human services a Hospital to Home Partnership Program, with the mission to promote partnerships between acute-care hospitals, as defined by section 25B of chapter 111 and aging services access points, or ASAPs, as defined by section 4B of chapter 19A, and to strengthen communication and coordination with community providers to promote institutional diversion and increase discharge rates from hospitals to home and community-based settings.

(b) There will be within each participating acute-care hospital no less than 1 ASAP staff member serving as home and community-based services hospital liaison. The liaison shall support the hospital’s efforts to connect individuals to home and community-based services programs and other community services to enable a community discharge instead of a skilled nursing facility or other institutional placement.

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