WisconsinBill would fund patient lift grants for Wisconsin care facilities
If adopted, the bill would set aside $300,000 for 2025–26 grants to eligible care facilities buying approved patient lifts residents can operate themselves.
What it does
If adopted, the bill would set aside $300,000 for 2025–26 grants to care facilities buying approved patient lifts. Facilities would apply and meet department-set criteria.
Grant recipients would have to report data in the form the department sets. The department could spend up to $100,000 of the appropriation to collect and analyze it.
Argument forGrants could help care facilities buy approved lifts that residents can operate themselves, which may give residents more independence when moving.
Argument againstFacilities could take on extra reporting work to qualify for grants, while up to $100,000 could go toward collecting and analyzing the data.
More detail
The Department of Health Services would award grants to eligible facilities for patient lift devices. Eligible applicants are adult family homes, community-based residential facilities, nursing homes, and residential care apartment complexes. Facilities would apply and meet criteria set by the department, including agreeing to report data. Grant money could buy only department-approved devices that mechanically lift a person and can be operated by a patient or resident, alone or with staff help. The appropriation lists $300,000 for 2025–26 and no money for 2026–27.
Grant recipients would report data, and the department would collect and analyze it. The reporting duty would apply to facilities that receive grants. The department would set what data recipients report and how they report it; it could hire a third party to help collect and analyze the data. No more than $100,000 from the appropriation could be spent on data collection and analysis.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 15Fiscal estimate receivedLatest
- Mar 23Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1Major
- Mar 19Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- Feb 12Read first time and referred to Committee on HealthMinor
- Feb 12Introduced by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, Pfaff and Ratcliff; cosponsored by Representatives Palmeri, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Kaufert, Kirsch, Madison, McCarville, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Mursau, Ortiz-Velez, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck, Taylor and UdellIntroduced
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