Report Title:

Expand Definition of Quality Assurance Committee

Description:

Adds long-term care facility, home care agency, and hospice to those institutions that may establish an interdisciplinary quality assurance committee.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2203

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to quality assurance.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 624-25.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "quality assurance committee" to read as follows:

""Quality assurance committee" means an interdisciplinary committee established by the board of trustees or administrative staff of a licensed hospital, clinic, long-term care facility, home care agency, hospice, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, or preferred provider network providing medical, dental, or optometric care, whose function is to monitor and evaluate patient care, and to identify, study, and correct deficiencies and seek improvements in the patient care delivery process."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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