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State Health Care Issues Limited-Service Hospitals Hospitals are seeking to clarify public policy in Ohio to require all new hospitals in operation after Aug, 8, 2006, to maintain an emergency department 24 hours a day, seven days a week and maintain Medicare and Medicaid provider agreements. Last session, legislation was introduced proposing these requirements. That legislation was reintroduced this session as Senate Bill 120. Such requirements would ensure that all Ohio hospitals provide critical emergency health care to Ohioans and make Ohio less of a target for new limited-service, specialty hospitals, which jeopardize the stability of Ohio's community hospitals.
127th General Assembly Legislation
Letters June 19, 2007 (Letter to Senate President from System CEOs) June 19, 2007 (Letter to Senate Minority Leader from System CEOs)
Testimony on SB 120 R.Reed Fraley, Sr. Vice President, Ohio Hospital Association Sen. David Goodman (R-Columbus), Bill Sponsor Bryan Bucklew, President & CEO, Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association Jim Pancoast, President & CEO, Good Samaritan Hospital John Zeiger, Officer, OhioHealth Board of Trustees
Resources American Hospital Association Trendwatch Physician Ownership and Self-referral in Hospitals: Research on Negative Effects Grows
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Investigation of Compliance with Hospital Emergency Services Requirements by Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Provision of Emergency Services
Department of Health & Human Services Inspector General Report Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals' Ability to Manage Medical Emergencies
News U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Press Release 08.23.07 Grassley, Baucus ask specialty hospitals about patient safety after 911 calls for 150 patients
Physician Self-Referral: Banned, But Surprisingly Common
Cincinnati
Business Courier 06.19.07
126th General Assembly Legislation 3 County Moratorium (Amendment to SB 116 creating a 90 day moratorium of limited-service hospitals in Clark, Licking and
Greene
counties)
Letters
Dec. 1, 2006
(Letter to Senate President and Speaker of
the House)
Mike Curtin, Vice Chairman of Dispatch Printing Company, Associate Publisher of Columbus Dispatch, and Board Member and Immediate Past Chair of Mount Carmel Health System Dr. Jean Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
September 27, 2006
Columbus Business First
12.21.06
Columbus Dispatch 12.21.06 Columbus Dispatch 12.13.06
Dayton Daily News 12.13.06 Our View: Mini-hospitals better for docs than patients
Dayton Daily News 12.13.06 From the doctors' side: Physicians 'frustrated' with hospital control over decisions
Dayton Business Journal 12.12.06 State looks at temporary ban on specialty hospitals
Springfield News-Sun 12.11.06
Springfield News-Sun 12.10.06 Springfield News-Sun, Editorial 12.10.06
Hospital plans need to benefit the community
Springfield News-Sun 12.6.06
Springfield News-Sun 12.6.06
Resources Press Release 12.14.06 McGregor Amends Legislation to Create Temporary Specialty Hospital Moratorium
Time Magazine Article 12.5.06
The Hospital Wars -
Surgery and imaging centers owned by
doctors are swiping patients from traditional hospitals. Competition is
good, right? Not always in health care, where an arms race keeps the
costs rising
Archives
House Bill 71 Limited-service
hospital legislation
introduced during the 124th General Assembly
Related OHA Articles Bill Requires Hospitals to Have EDs 12.1.06
Bridget Gargan, Vice President, State Policy & Advocacy,
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