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RSA 151:5-c · Proceedings of Residential Care Facility Quality Assurance Program; Confidentiality
151:5-c Proceedings of Residential Care Facility Quality Assurance Program; Confidentiality. –
Copy linkTo help assure quality care of residents in licensed residential care facilities, such facilities shall maintain a quality assurance program for its residents as set forth in this section.
Copy link"Records" means records of interviews, internal reviews and investigations, and all reports, statements, minutes, memoranda, charts, statistics, and other documentation generated during the activities of a quality assurance program. "Records" shall not mean original medical records or other records kept relative to any resident in the course of the business of operating a licensed residential care facility.
Copy link"Quality assurance program" means a comprehensive, ongoing, organization-wide system of mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the quality and appropriateness of the care provided, so that important problems and trends in the delivery of care are identified and that steps are taken to correct problems and to take advantage of opportunities to improve care.
Copy linkRecords of a quality assurance program in a licensed residential care facility, including those of its functional components and committees as defined by the facility's quality assurance plans, organized to evaluate matters relating to the care and treatment of residents and to improve the quality of care provided, and testimony by owners or members, or both, on the board of directors of the residential care facility, medical and clinical staff, employees, or the committee attendees relating to activities of the quality assurance program, shall be confidential and privileged and shall be protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. However, information, documents, or records otherwise available from original sources shall not be construed as immune from discovery or use in any such civil or administrative action merely because they were presented to a quality assurance program, and any person who supplies information or testifies as part of a quality assurance program, or who is a member of a quality assurance program committee, shall not be prevented from testifying as to matters within his or her knowledge, but such witness shall not be asked about his or her testimony before such program, or opinions formed by him or her, as a result of committee participation. Further, a program's records shall be discoverable in either of the following cases:
Copy linkA judicial or administrative proceeding brought by a licensed residential care facility, its quality assurance program, or owners and/or board of directors, to revoke or restrict the license or certification of a staff member; or
Copy linkA proceeding alleging repetitive malicious action or personal injury brought against a staff member.
Copy linkA licensed residential care facility, its owners and/or board of directors, or trustees may waive privileges under this section and release information or present records of the quality assurance program by discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding.
Copy linkNo owner, directors, trustees, medical or clinical staff, employees, or other attendees of the quality assurance program shall be held liable in any action for damages or other relief arising from the providing of information to a quality assurance program or in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Source. 2005, 274:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. 2025, 287:6, eff. Sept. 30, 2025.
Copy linkSource note
Source. 2005, 274:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. 2025, 287:6, eff. Sept. 30, 2025.
Source history
- 2005, 274:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2006
- 2025, 287:6, eff. Sept. 30, 2025
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