31-36B-3. Lay caregiver involvement in discharge.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

(a)
Upon inpatient admission to a hospital, each patient shall have the opportunity to identify at least one lay caregiver to be involved in the discharge planning process.#
(b)
A patient may elect to change his or her lay caregiver by notifying the hospital of such change.#
(c)
Identification of a lay caregiver by a patient under this chapter does not obligate any individual to perform any aftercare tasks for the patient.#
(d)
This Code section shall not be construed so as to require a patient to identify any individual as a lay caregiver.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-36B-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 584, § 1/HB 1304.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

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