Amended in Senate April 2, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1297

Introduced by Senator Hueso

February 21, 2014

An act begin insert to add Section 128767 to the Health and Safety Code, end insert relating to health facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1297, as amended, Hueso. Hospital Safety and Transparency Act of 2014.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including begin delete general acute care end delete hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a hospital begin insert , as defined, end insert to report summary financial and utilization data, as specified, to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development within 45 days of the end of the every calendar quarter.

This bill would begin delete state the intent of the Legislature that end delete begin insert require end insert the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development begin delete expand on its hospital reporting functions and consolidate the information end delete begin insert to publish on its Internet Web site historical and current information end insert collected by state and federal regulators about hospitals. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

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

SECTION 1.  

This act shall be known and may be cited as the
Hospital Safety and Transparency Act of 2014.

SEC. 2.  

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:

(1) The state and federal government play an important oversight
role in ensuring minimum safety standards are met by health
facilities and that public funds are properly used.

(2) The findings of these reviews are dispersed across multiple
state entities, often in multiple locations and varying in formats.
As a result, consumers and other interested members of the public
do not have access to a comprehensive profile of a hospital’s status
and performance on quality and compliance with state and federal
laws.

(3) Despite the state’s existing efforts to collect and publish
individual hospital facility data reported to the state, the state could
improve upon its efforts to consolidate findings from its reviews
and sanctions of individual hospital providers alongside already
reported data on hospitals.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development expand on its current hospital
reporting functions as set forth in Part 5 (commencing with Section
128675) of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code.

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(c) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development further consolidate
the information collected by state and federal regulators about
hospitals, including, but not limited to, information regarding
Medi-Cal program withholds pursuant to Section 14107.11 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code, and provider preventable conditions
pursuant to Parts 434, 438, and 447 of Title 42 of the Code of
Federal Regulations.

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begin insert Section 128767 is added to the end insert begin insert Health and Safety Code end insert begin insert ,
to read: end insert

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begin insert 128767. end insert   

From records in its possession, the office shall publish
on its Internet Web site historical and current information collected
by state and federal regulators about hospitals, including, but not
limited to, information regarding Medi-Cal program withholds
pursuant to Section 14107.11 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
and provider preventable conditions pursuant to Parts 434, 438,
and 447 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

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