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Legislative committee staff outline S.189 changes to hospital notice and public-engagement requirements
Summary
Staff from the Office of Legislative Council walked committee members through S.189, which would require hospitals to give 60 days’ notice, post and publish a notice, hold public hearings and let the Agency of Human Services review proposed service reductions or eliminations before changes take effect.
Jen Carvey of the Office of Legislative Council summarized S.189 during a committee meeting, saying the bill would require a hospital that "proposes to intentionally reduce or eliminate any service" to provide at least 60 days' notice to the Agency of Human Services, the Green Mountain Care Board, the Office of the Health Care Advocate and the legislators representing the hospital service area and to post the notice on its website.
Carvey told members the bill would also require hospitals to "publish the notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the hospital service area within 10 days" and to "conduct a public engagement process, including holding at least one public hearing in the county in which the hospital is located and soliciting and responding to public comments regarding the proposed service reduction or elimination." She said the public engagement period must continue for at least…
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