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HJ 115 Trauma Centers in hospitals; JLARC to study use and financing thereof.

Introduced by: Dwight Clinton Jones | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Study; the use and financing of trauma centers in the Commonwealth's hospitals. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study use and financing of Virginia's designated trauma centers. In conducting its study, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission must (i) examine utilization trends vis-à-vis number of patients served and kind of services delivered; (ii) compare Virginia's utilization trends to national utilization trends; (iii) assess the demographics of patients requiring trauma center services in Virginia; (iv) conduct an insurance profile of the patients requiring these services in Virginia and, in so far as possible, the nation; (v) analyze the financial costs and benefits to hospitals of being designated a trauma center, including any public relations or other "good will" benefit from being known as a trauma center; and (vi) determine any steps that can be taken to maintain appropriate and necessary trauma services in Virginia's hospitals. The Commission must report by the first day of the 2005 Session. This resolution was incorporated into HJR 183 (2004).


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