The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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QUALITY, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AND COST CONTAINMENT
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 9405a)
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§ 9405a. Public participation and strategic planning
(a) Each hospital shall have a protocol for meaningful public participation in its strategic
planning process for identifying and addressing health care needs that the hospital
provides or could provide in its service area. Needs identified through the process
shall be integrated with the hospital’s long-term planning. Each hospital shall post
on its website a description of its identified needs, strategic initiatives developed
to address the identified needs, annual progress on implementation of the proposed
initiatives, opportunities for public participation, and the ways in which the hospital
ensures access to appropriate mental health care that meets standards of quality,
access, and affordability equivalent to other components of health care as part of
an integrated, holistic system of care. Hospitals may meet the community health needs
assessment and implementation plan requirement through compliance with the relevant
Internal Revenue Service community health needs assessment requirements for nonprofit
hospitals.
(b) When a hospital is working on a new community health needs assessment, the hospital
shall post on its website information about the process for developing the community
needs assessment and opportunities for public participation in the process. (Added 2003, No. 53, § 4; amended 2005, No. 71, § 77a; 2007, No. 27, § 4; 2011, No. 48, § 21; 2015, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 31, 2016; 2017, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 17; 2019, No. 14, § 56, eff. April 20, 2019.)