135B.33 - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE -- PLAN -- GRANTS.

        135B.33  TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE -- PLAN -- GRANTS.
         1.  Subject to availability of funds, the Iowa department of
      public health shall provide technical planning assistance to local
      boards of health and hospital governing boards to ensure access to
      hospital services in rural areas.  The department shall encourage the
      local boards of health and hospital governing boards to adopt a
      long-term community health services and developmental plan including
      the following:
         a.  An analysis of demographic trends in the health facility
      services area, affecting health facility and health-facility-related
      health care utilizations.
         b.  A review of inpatient services currently provided, by type
      of service and the frequency of provision of that service, and the
      cost-effectiveness of that service.
         c.  An analysis of resources available in proximate health
      facilities and services that might be provided through alternative
      arrangements with such health facilities.
         d.  An analysis of cooperative arrangements that could be
      developed with other health facilities in the area that could assist
      those health facilities in the provision of services.
         e.  An analysis of community health needs, including long-term
      care, nursing facility care, pediatric and maternity services, and
      the health facilities' potential role in facilitating the provision
      of services to meet these needs.
         f.  An analysis of alternative uses for existing health
      facility space and real property, including use for community
      health-related and human service-related purposes.
         g.  An analysis of mechanisms to meet indigent patient care
      needs and the responsibilities for the care of indigent patients.
         h.  An analysis of the existing tax levying of the health
      facilities for patient care, on a per capita basis and per hospital
      patient basis, and projections on future needs for tax levying to
      continue for the provision of care.
         2.  Providers may cooperatively coordinate to develop one
      long-term community health services and developmental plan for a
      geographic area, provided the plan addresses the issues enumerated in
      this section.
         3.  The health facilities may seek technical assistance or apply
      for matching grant funds for the plan development.  The department
      shall require compliance with subsection 1, paragraphs "a"
      through "h" when the facility applies for matching grant funds.
      
         Section History: Recent Form
         86 Acts, ch 1200, § 2; 90 Acts, ch 1039, § 1; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §
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         Referred to in § 135.107