Below is the HillCo client report from the July 22 Perinatal Advisory Committee meeting.
Please see attached for the current (and close to complete) perinatal designation standards.
HB 15
- Instructs Texas to be divided into neonatal and maternity regions and to facilitate transfer agreements via regional coordination
- Regions have no authority over hospital payment transfers or specific hospital designations
- The PAC has established 11 regions based on public health services regions for regional advisory councils and collaboration
- Councils have no oversight or handling of administrative hospital functions
- Will not “police hospitals”
- Data will be reported from the state to the councils
- Councils should be composed of neonatal and maternity care reps, 2 from each hospital
- 1 member should bea clinical practitioner
- Believes that there needs to be facility attendance requirements
- Designees need to attend at least 50% of the meetings
- At least one designee needs to attend a face to face meeting
- Councils should meet quarterly
- Councils will appoint a governing board at the first meeting
- Councils will be 10-14 people
- 2 co-chairs, not from the same facility
- 1 PAC member could serve Ex Offico
- Believes that report should be submitted to HHSC at the end of the year to keep the council’s accountable
- The definitions subcommittee will be working over the next week to finalize definitions on the perinatal designations
Perinatal designation rules
- Want to have them crafted 6 months prior to the DSHS Council meeting in order to get them through the process this year
Current Meeting schedule might change because they are waiting on ther federal maternal guidelines to come down the pipeline
- They aren’t required to be finished until 2019 so they are not in a big rush
- Tentatively:
- September 8
- October 7
- November 10
- December 2