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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 497
CHAPTER 497
(House Bill 1455)
AN ACT concerning
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene— Cultural Competency and
Health Outcomes - Pilot Program
FOR the purpose of requiring the Family Health Administration in the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Office of Minority Health
and Health Disparities and delected community based entities, to implement
provide technical assistance to certain community-based entities for a certain
pilot program that addresses the cultural competency training of certain health
care providers and certain health outcomes; requiring the pilot program to be
implemented in a certain hospital system; requiring the hospital system that
implements the pilot program to make a certain report to certain committees on
or before a certain date requiring that certain health indicators be tracked in the
pilot program: defining a certain term; providing for the termination of this Act;
and generally relating to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and a
pilot program on cultural competency and health outcomes.
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 20-1101 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 11. Cultural Competency
Pilot Program"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2005 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Health - General
SUBTITLE 11. CULTURAL COMPETENCY PILOT PROGRAM.
20-1101.
(A) IN THIS SUBSECTION, "CULTURAL COMPETENCY' MEANS A SET OF
ACADEMIC, CLINICAL, AND PERSONAL SKILLS THAT ALLOW HEALTH CARE
PROVIDERS TO INCREASE THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AMONG GROUPS.
(B) BY OCTOBER 1, 2007, THE FAMILY HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, IN
CONSULTATION WITH THE OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES,
SHALL PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO QUALIFIED AND SELECTED
COMMUNITY-BASED ENTITIES, SHALL IMPLEMENT FOR A PILOT PROGRAM THAT
ADDRESSES:
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