Connecticut

Grounds stated in the sources

Connecticut General Statutes § 19a-535(b): "A facility shall not transfer or discharge a resident from the facility except to meet the welfare of the resident which cannot be met in the facility, or unless the resident no longer needs the services of the facility due to improved health, the facility is required to transfer the resident pursuant to section 17b-359 or 17b-360, or the health or safety of individuals in the facility is endangered, or in the case of a self-pay resident, for the resident's nonpayment or arrearage of more than fifteen days of the per diem facility room rate, or the facility ceases to operate." Each basis must be documented in the medical record by a physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse. Two limits sit alongside the grounds: "No resident shall be involuntarily transferred or discharged from a facility if such transfer or discharge is medically contraindicated." and no resident may be moved "as a result of a change in the resident's status from self-pay or Medicare to Medicaid provided the facility offers services to both categories of residents."

Notice stated in the sources

§ 19a-535(c)(1): "The notice shall be given at least thirty days and no more than sixty days prior to the resident's proposed transfer or discharge", with stated exceptions in which notice is given "as many days before the transfer or discharge as practicable." The required contents are unusually long, and include the right to appeal and "the procedures for initiating such an appeal as determined by the Department of Social Services", the date by which an appeal must be brought to preserve the hearing right, the separate date by which it must be brought to stay the move, the possibility of an exception for good cause, that the resident may be represented by "legal counsel, a relative, a friend or other spokesperson", bed-hold and readmission information under § 19a-537, and: "The notice shall also include the name, mailing address and telephone number of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman." The facility must also notify the State Ombudsman on the day it issues the notice, and: "Failure to provide notice to the State Ombudsman pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision shall invalidate any notice of the proposed involuntary transfer or discharge of a resident submitted pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection."

Hearing office in these sources

The Commissioner of Social Services. Two clocks run at once: "The resident may initiate an appeal pursuant to this section by submitting a written request to the Commissioner of Social Services not later than sixty calendar days after the facility issues the notice of the proposed transfer or discharge, except as provided in subsection (h) of this section." — while to hold the move, "the resident must initiate an appeal not later than twenty days after the date the resident receives the notice of the proposed transfer or discharge from the facility unless the resident demonstrates good cause for failing to initiate such appeal within the twenty-day period." A hearing is convened "not less than ten, but not more than thirty days from the date of receipt of such request", and the statute places the burden on the facility: "In each case the facility shall prove by a preponderance of the evidence that it has complied with the provisions of this section." On pendency: "an involuntary transfer or discharge shall be stayed pending a decision by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee". No address, form or portal for submitting the request is stated in the captured sources — the statute leaves the procedures to the Department of Social Services, and no departmental page stating them was captured.

Ombudsman in these sources

The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The program publishes: "Toll-free: 1-866-388-1888", "Main office: 860-424-5200", "Fax: 860-772-1704" and "Email: ltcop@ct.gov", and directs readers to a list and map of regional ombudsmen. The statute writes the office into the process twice — the notice must carry its name, mailing address and telephone number, and the facility must report every involuntary transfer or discharge to the State Ombudsman, including "on an Internet web site portal maintained by the State Ombudsman".

Sources last checked

2026-08-30

Reproduced from the agencies' own pages and documents quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination that any notice, ground, or deadline applies to any situation.

Lede

This page assembles what Connecticut's own publishers state about transfer and discharge from a nursing facility. It is a baseline page: the docket rows and the source map are built; the grounds section and the published-process section are not yet written, as the change log records. The fullest single source is § 19a-535 of the General Statutes, which states the grounds, the thirty-to-sixty-day notice window, the notice's contents, a required discharge plan, the appeal and hearing, the stay, and the commissioner's power to order readmission. Connecticut's vocabulary is transfer or discharge, each defined in the statute, with a self-pay resident defined separately because nonpayment grounds apply only to that class.

Two features stand out. Connecticut runs two appeal clocks from different starting points — sixty days from the facility's issuing of the notice to preserve the hearing, twenty days from the resident's receipt of it to stay the move — and it makes notice to the State Ombudsman a condition of the notice's validity: fail to notify the ombudsman, and the notice to the resident is invalidated. The federal floor for Medicare/Medicaid-certified facilities is assembled separately on [the federal page](../federal.html); nothing here fills a gap from federal law or another state. Confirm applicability with the agencies named in the sources: whether any provision applies to a particular facility, resident, or notice is for the hearing office to determine. Deadlines and periods on this page are quoted from the sources, not calculated for any case.