2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368z - Office of Health Care Access
Section 19a-637 - (Formerly Sec. 19a-153). Office to promote effective health planning in the state.

The office shall promote effective health planning in the state. In carrying out its assigned duties, the office shall promote the provision of quality health care in a manner that ensures access for all state residents to cost-effective services so as to avoid duplication of health services and improve the availability and financial stability of health care services throughout the state.

(P.A. 73-117, S. 12, 31; P.A. 77-192, S. 6, 13; 77-304, S. 1; 77-614, S. 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 80-13; P.A. 81-465, S. 4, 18; 81-472, S. 46, 130, 159; P.A. 82-472, S. 62, 183; P.A. 84-315, S. 21, 24; P.A. 88-8, S. 2; P.A. 89-371, S. 12; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 30, 39; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 48, 130; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 58; P.A. 02-101, S. 16; P.A. 05-151, S. 3; P.A. 08-14, S. 1; P.A. 09-11, S. 7; P.A. 10-179, S. 86.)

History: P.A. 77-192 required consideration of teaching and research expenses, community service programs, comments from professional standards review organizations re volume, need for preservation of capital and segregation of grants, patient mix, growth of patient load and accounts receivable experience and made consideration of all specified factors mandatory rather than optional; P.A. 77-304 included in other factors relevant to facilities and institutions business interests and personal backgrounds of owners, partners, associates, etc. and added Subsec. (b) re availability of data to health department and nursing home administrators’ licensure board; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-13 added Subsec. (c) re freedom of hospital resources from commission control; P.A. 81-465 amended Subsec. (a) to establish new criteria that the commission may utilize in its deliberations under Secs. 19-73 to 19-73o, inclusive; P.A. 81-472 deleted requirement in Subsec. (b) that data be made available to board of licensure of nursing home administrators; P.A. 82-472 made a technical correction; Sec. 19-73k transferred to Sec. 19a-153 in 1983; P.A. 84-315 amended Subsec. (c) to add references to Secs. 19a-156 and 19a-165 to 19a-165q, inclusive; P.A. 88-8 made a technical change by removing an obsolete reference to “the health systems plan” from the list of criteria; P.A. 89-371 increased factors to be considered by the commission in its deliberations in Subsec. (a) and added the reference to Secs. 19a-167 to 19a-167g, inclusive, in Subsec. (c), deleting reference to Secs. 19a-165 to 19a-165g, inclusive, repealed by the same act; P.A. 93-381 amended Subsec. (a) re written explanation for inconsistency with state health plan and replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 removed obsolete language, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access and replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-153 transferred to Sec. 19a-637 in 1997; P.A. 02-101 made technical changes, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 05-151 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) by removing references to repealed Sec. 19a-640 and making technical changes; P.A. 08-14 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to rates, adding Subdiv. (1) designator to existing provision re services provided by health care facility or institution and adding Subdiv. (2) re capital expenditures by a health care facility and Subdiv. (3) re acquisition of equipment by a person, provider, health facility or institution, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 09-11 made a technical change in Subsec. (a); P.A. 10-179 replaced former Subsecs. (a) to (c) with provisions re office’s promotion of effective health planning in the state.

Annotations to former section 19-73k:

Cited. 177 C. 356; 182 C. 314.

Cited. 32 CS 300; 34 CS 225.

Annotations to former section 19a-153:

Cited. 200 C. 489; 208 C. 663; 219 C. 581; 226 C. 105; 235 C. 128.

Cited. 42 CS 413.