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Committee debates who should decide on hospital service closures as bill offers five options
Summary
The committee discussed S.189, which outlines five options for handling hospital reductions or eliminations of services — from doing nothing to giving final authority to AHS or the Green Mountain Care Board — and agreed to take more testimony before choosing a path.
The Senate committee took up S.189, a bill addressing notice and review when hospitals propose reducing or eliminating services, and spent the session weighing five policy options ranging from keeping current practice to giving binding authority to a state agency.
Chair introduced the options: do nothing (retain current statute), adopt the senate-passed bill (with timing tweaks), preserve the public process but streamline agency interactions, require the Agency of Human Services (AHS) to make a binding recommendation, or give the Green…
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