Ch. 453                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 453
(House Bill 883)

AN ACT concerning

Health Care Services Disparities Program - Required—Education for

Practitioners and Coordination of Services Prevention Act

FOR the purpose of requiring declaring the intent of the General Assembly;
authorizing certain institutions of higher education in the State to include
certain courses in the curriculum or offer special seminars using the findings of
certain reports; requiring the courses or special seminars to address the issue of
health care services disparities of certain minority populations with cultural
competence, sensitivity, and health literacy; requiring certain institutions of
higher education to develop and implement certain sources or offer special
seminars by a certain date; requiring certain health care professionals to take a
certain class or seminar addressing a certain issue within a certain time period;
requiring certain health care professionals to provide certain documentation
from a certain entity to a certain licensing entity; requiring the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene in consultation with the Maryland Healthcare
Foundation, to develop and implement a certain coordinated program delivery
system plan to reduce health care disparities among certain entities; requiring
the coordinated program delivery system to meet certain criteria; requiring the
Department to implement a certain coordinated program delivery system plan
to include certain recommendations; requiring the Department and certain
entities to examine certain continuing education requirements and make certain
determinations by a certain date; requiring the Department to submit certain
reports to certain entities by certain dates; requiring authorizing a hospital with
a certain program to require certain personnel to take a certain course at least
once each year; requiring a hospital's course addressing a certain topic to follow
the guidelines of certain organizations;; providing for the termination of certain
provisions of this Act; and generally relating to required courses and a delivery
system related to health care services disparities.

BY adding to

Article — Health - General

Section 20-801 through 20-803 20-804, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle

"Subtitle 8. Health Care Services Disparities Prevention"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

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