{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-19a-494a","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-494a","heading":"Emergency summary orders.","body":"If the Commissioner of Public Health finds that the health, safety or welfare of any patient or patients served by an institution, as defined in section 19a-490, imperatively requires emergency action and the commissioner incorporates a finding to that effect in an order, the commissioner may issue a summary order to the holder of a license issued pursuant to section 19a-493 pending completion of any proceedings conducted pursuant to section 19a-494. These proceedings shall be promptly instituted and determined. The orders that the commissioner may issue shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Revoking or suspending the license; (2) prohibiting such institution from contracting with new patients or terminating its relationship with current patients; (3) limiting the license of such institution in any respect, including reducing the patient capacity or services which may be provided by such institution; and (4) compelling compliance with the applicable statutes or regulations of the department. Prior to issuing any summary order that revokes or suspends a hospital's license, the commissioner shall prepare, in collaboration with such hospital and one or more health care providers that provide services in the same geographic area as such hospital, a detailed plan for the relocation of such hospital's inpatients and the provision of comparable services for such hospital's outpatients.","path":["TITLE 19a. PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL-BEING","CHAPTER 368v*. HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_368v.htm#sec_19a-494a","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:03Z","sha256":"1c94468cd274f0e9704dc42bd5df7d96536d2026a89e0d029eaa58e22d89ff1d","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-19a-494","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-19a-495"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}