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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, §
192
Referred to in § 135.107
