Community Coalitions for Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2007

A bill to provide assistance to community health coalitions to increase access to and improve the quality of health care services.

9/18/2007--Introduced.
Community Coalitions for Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to assist in developing integrated health care delivery systems to serve defined communities to:
>(1) improve efficiency and coordination among providers;
(2) assist local communities in developing programs targeted toward preventing and managing chronic diseases; and
(3) expand and enhance services provided.
Requires eligible entities to represent a balanced consortium whose principal purpose is to assure sustained capacity for the provision of a broad range of coordinated services for all residents, including at least one of each of the following providers that serve the community (with exceptions):
(1) a federally qualified health center;
(2) rural health clinics and rural health networks;
(3) a hospital with a low-income utilization rate greater than 25% or a critical access hospital;
(4) a public health department; and
(5) an interested public or private sector health care provider or organization that has traditionally served medically uninsured and low-income individuals.
Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding grants, to provide priority to applicants that demonstrate the greatest unmet need for a more coordinated system of care.
Requires a grantee to use amounts provided only for:
(1) direct expenses associated with achieving greater integration of a health care delivery system to directly provide or ensure the provision of a broad range of culturally competent services; and
(2) direct patient care and service expansions to fill identified or documented gaps within an integrated delivery system.
Requires entities to report annually to the Secretary. Conditions grant renewal on demonstrable progress in meeting goals.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
• and 1 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.2065

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
September 18, 2007

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• Sep 18, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Introduced on Sep 18, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.3561

Related Issue Areas:

• Quality of care
• Preventive medicine
• Medicine
• Medically uninsured
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• Medical care
• Health services administration
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Community health services
• Chronically ill
• Budgets
• Access to health care
• Health policy

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