(1)
At least once each year, each reporting hospital shall convene a public meeting to
seek feedback regarding the reporting hospital's community benefit activities
during the previous year and the reporting hospital's community benefit
implementation plan for the following year. The presentation of the community
benefit activities for the previous year must include the reporting hospital's
discrete community benefit activities, the amount funded for each activity, and a
description of how the activities and funding amounts align with the community's
identified priorities.
(2) (a) Each reporting hospital shall invite, at a minimum, representatives
from the following entities to participate in the meeting described in subsection (1)
of this section, if any such entities operate in the reporting hospital's community:
(I) Local public health agencies;
(II) Local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations;
(III) Local health-care consumer organizations;
(IV) School districts;
(V) County governments;
(VI) City and town governments;
(VII) Community health centers;
(VIII) Certified rural health clinics or primary care clinics located in a county
that has been designated by the federal office of management and budget as a
rural or frontier county;
(IX) Area agencies on aging;
(X) Health-care consumer advocacy organizations;
(XI) A member of the tribal council or the member's designee for a hospital
whose community includes one of Colorado's land-based tribes;
(XII) A member from the urban Indian organization for a hospital whose
community includes a federally designated urban Indian health center or urban
Indian organization; and
(XIII) A member from an institution of higher education for a hospital whose
community includes such institutions.
(b) In addition to the entities described in subsection (2)(a) of this section,
each reporting hospital shall invite, at a minimum, representatives from the
following state agencies to participate in the meeting described in subsection (1) of
this section:
(I) The state department;
(II) The department of public health and environment;
(III) The department of human services;
(IV) The Colorado commission on higher education; and
(V) The office of saving people money on healthcare in the lieutenant
governor's office.
(c) In addition to the entities described in subsections (2)(a) and (2)(b) of this
section, each reporting hospital shall invite the general public to the annual
meeting described in subsection (1) of this section. The reporting hospital shall
issue such invitation in an advertisement placed in any major newspaper published
in the reporting hospital's community, posted on the reporting hospital's public
website and social media accounts or other online presence, distributed through
the reporting hospital's electronic newsletter or email lists, and distributed by any
other means through which the reporting hospital regularly communicates with the
community it serves. The invitation must be published at least thirty days prior to
the scheduled meeting.
(2.5) When presenting the proposed community benefit implementation plan
described in subsection (1) of this section, the reporting hospital must:
(a) Present priority areas identified in the reporting hospital's most recent
community health needs assessment and any other community benefit investment
option recommended by the reporting hospital. Each priority recommendation
presented must clearly identify the source of the recommendation.
(b) Solicit public input for any additional community benefit investment
priority; and
(c) Review and incorporate the public feedback received before the
reporting hospital finalizes its annual community benefit implementation plan.
(2.7) A reporting hospital may only add community benefit priorities to the
reporting hospital's implementation plan if the community benefit priorities were
presented at the annual meeting and the public was provided an opportunity to
provide feedback. The reporting hospital must indicate that the implemented
community benefit priorities are a result of reporting hospital recommendations
and not from community feedback.
(2.8) The state board shall promulgate rules to define terms and establish
specific processes regarding the requirements for reporting hospitals to solicit,
review, and incorporate public input pursuant to subsections (2.5) and (2.7) of this
section.
(3) To satisfy the requirements of this section, a reporting hospital may
convene a joint public meeting with one or more other reporting hospitals that share
some or all of the hospital's community.
(4) For each public meeting and community health needs assessment
community engagement meeting held, each reporting hospital shall submit a report
to the state department and make the report available to community members by
making the report publicly available on the reporting hospital's website. The report
must include, at a minimum, the following:
(a) Meeting minutes;
(b) A list of the meeting attendees;
(c) The content of the meeting discussion, including any community benefit
priorities discussed and the decisions made regarding those discussed community
benefit priorities;
(d) Community feedback received and how the hospital plans to incorporate
the feedback into the reporting hospital's community benefit implementation plan;
and
(e) Any data collected from attendees, such as data concerning race,
ethnicity, or income.
(5) The state department must conduct a stakeholder meeting with
consumer advocates, community organizers, community organizations, and hospital
representatives to identify and develop, at a minimum, best practices to ensure low-income residents, residents of color, people with serious mental illness, people with
disabilities, and other populations experiencing disproportionate health outcomes
in local communities are meaningfully engaged and to ensure their input is
incorporated into the data used to identify community priorities for the community
health needs assessment and community benefit implementation plan. This
stakeholder engagement must also include best practices for hospitals to
collaborate with local public health agencies and community organizations to
reduce redundant community needs assessments.
(6) The state board shall promulgate rules to establish accommodation
standards for the annual community benefit public meetings and community health
needs assessment that include language accessibility, adequate advanced public
notice, and any other type of accessibility measures deemed necessary by the state
board, and to implement the best practices identified and developed pursuant to
subsection (5) of this section.
(7) The state board shall promulgate any additional rules that may be
necessary for conducting the annual community benefit public meetings described
in this section.