Bill Text: HI HB609 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Residency Programs For Hawaii Medical School Graduates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-24 - Referred to LHE, HLT, FIN, referral sheet 5 [HB609 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-HB609-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to residency programs for hawaii medical school graduates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that stemming the critical and growing shortage of qualified physicians in Hawaii is a matter of statewide public concern. Contributing significantly to this shortage is a lack of residency training opportunities for local medical graduates.
Residency training is supervised, hands-on training that must be completed to be licensed, board certified, and able to practice independently. This course of training lasts at least three years and exposes new doctors to a variety of care settings including community clinics, diverse patients and cases, and cutting-edge research and care.
A recent study by the John A. Burns School of Medicine demonstrates that although medical school class size is increasing, the available residency positions for graduating doctors in Hawaii continues to shrink. In fact, Hawaii is in the bottom quintile of residency positions per population in the nation. Funds provided by the federal government only support a small portion of the costs associated with multi-year post-graduation physician training, however this amount falls far below that necessary to support or expand physician residency programs to the volume necessary to meet the needs of Hawaii's aging population. Likewise, although providing some offset, the federal funding has failed to keep pace with the increasing costs associated with post-doctoral residency training thereby placing significant financial burden on teaching hospitals. Due to this increase cost burden, these institutions have been forced to reduce the number of residency opportunities.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 to providing funding to supplement the maintenance and growth of physician residency programs within the state of Hawaii; provided that no funds shall be released unless matched dollar-for-dollar by private funding interests, such as teaching hospitals and institutions providing graduate medical education.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii through the medical education counsel for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.
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Report Title:
John A.
Burns School of Medicine; Physician Shortage; Residency; Appropriation;
Matching Funds
Description:
Appropriates moneys to the graduate medical education program for physician residency programs in Hawaii; provided that the funds are matched dollar-for-dollar by private sector medical hospitals and institutions.
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