Bill Text: CA AB2589 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Controlled substances: human chorionic gonadotropin.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-07-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2018. [AB2589 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2589-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2589

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bigelow

February 15, 2018

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An act to amend Section 127340 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2589, as introduced, Bigelow. Hospitals: community benefits.

Existing law declares that significant public benefit would be derived if private, not-for-profit hospitals periodically reviewed and reaffirmed their commitment to assist in meeting their communities’ health care needs by identifying and documenting benefits provided to the communities that they serve, and requires each hospital to annually adopt and update a community benefits plan for providing community benefits either alone, in conjunction with other health care providers, or through other organizational arrangements. Each hospital is also required to annually submit its community benefits plan, including a description of the activities that the hospital has undertaken in order to address community needs within its mission and financial capacity, to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 127340 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

127340.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Private Private, not-for-profit hospitals meet certain needs of their communities through the provision of essential health care and other services. Public recognition of their unique status has led to favorable tax treatment by the government. In exchange, nonprofit hospitals assume a social obligation to provide community benefits in the public interest.

(b) Hospitals and the environment in which they operate have undergone dramatic changes. The pace of change will accelerate in response to health care reform. In light of this, significant public benefit would be derived if private private, not-for-profit hospitals periodically reviewed and reaffirmed periodically their commitment to assist in meeting their communities’ health care needs by identifying and documenting benefits provided to the communities which that they serve.

(c) California’s private private, not-for-profit hospitals provide a wide range of benefits to their communities in addition to those reflected in the financial data reported to the state.

(d) Unreported community benefits that are often provided but not otherwise reported include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Community-oriented wellness and health promotion.

(2) Prevention services, including, but not limited to, health screening, immunizations, school examinations, and disease counseling and education.

(3) Adult day care.

(4) Child care.

(5) Medical research.

(6) Medical education.

(7) Nursing and other professional training.

(8) Home-delivered meals to the homebound.

(9) Sponsorship of free food, shelter, and clothing to the homeless.

(10) Outreach clinics in socioeconomically depressed areas.

(e) Direct provision of goods and services, as well as preventive programs, should be emphasized by hospitals in the development of community benefit plans.