HB1176

Mississippi HB1176 requires the Health Department to inspect nursing and assisted living facilities for compliance with emergency power source rules.

Mississippi HB1176 mandates the State Board of Health to adopt rules requiring the State Department of Health to inspect nursing facilities and assisted living facilities for compliance with rules governing electricity and emergency power sources. The inspections must be unannounced and occur at least once every fifteen months. The facilities must maintain a fully operational emergency power source and a fuel supply sufficient to sustain it for five days during a power outage.