havior change for the sustainable integration of highly ef-
fective and innovative practices into medical practice and 
on the factors that foster an environment of continual im-
provement. 
‘‘(i) PUBLIC DISSEMINATION
OF INFORMATION.— 
The Center shall provide for the public dissemination of 
objective information with respect to activities and re-
search conducted under this Act. Such information shall 
be made available through multiple media and appropriate 
formats to reflect the varying needs of consumers and di-
verse levels of health literacy. 
‘‘(j) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than April 
1 of each year, beginning in 2011, the Director of 
the Center shall submit a report to the Secretary on 
the activities of the Center and the Extension Cen-
ters during the preceding year. 
‘‘(2) CONTENT.—Each report submitted under 
paragraph (1) shall include information on— 
‘‘(A) the number of arrangements estab-
lished by Extension Centers with collaborating 
providers; 
‘‘(B) the progress made accelerating the 
implementation of best practices by the collabo-
rating providers during the year involved and 
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for such other years as the Director determines 
to be appropriate; 
‘‘(C) the level of implementation of best 
practices at collaborating providers as compared 
to other providers; 
‘‘(D) the impact of the work of each Ex-
tension Center on patient outcomes and patient 
safety, including lives saved, and cost savings 
attributable to the activity or initiatives of the 
Extension Center; 
‘‘(E) the aggregate national impact of the 
work of the Center and Extension Centers on 
patient outcomes and patient safety, including 
lives saved, and cost savings attributable to the 
activity or initiatives of the Extension Centers 
and the Center, including cost savings to Medi-
care and Medicaid; 
‘‘(F) progress made toward the national 
goals for health care quality improvement, as 
established under secton 941; 
‘‘(G) evaluations of the impact of imple-
menting individual best practices on patient 
outcomes and satisfaction, to the extent such 
analysis is practicable; 
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‘‘(H) research and other related activities 
conducted or funded by the Center during the 
year involved and the results of those efforts in 
improving patient safety and the quality of care 
in the delivery of health care services or in the 
science of improvement; and 
‘‘(I) such other matters as the Center, or 
the Secretary, determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(3) PUBLIC
AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary 
shall transmit each report under this subsection to 
Congress and shall make each such report available 
to the public. 
‘‘SEC. 944. REGIONAL HEALTH EXTENSION CENTERS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL HEALTH EX-
TENSION CENTERS.—The Center shall establish, either di-
rectly or through contracts with qualified entities (as de-
fined in subsection (b)), Regional Health Extension Cen-
ters (referred to in this Act as ‘Extension Centers’) to 
carry out the functions described in section 943(e) within 
such States or regions as the Center determines to be ap-
propriate: 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘quali-
fied entity’ means an entity that meets all of the following 
requirements: 
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‘‘(1) DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE.—The enti-
ty has experience— 
‘‘(A) in carrying out the type of functions 
described in section 942(e); 
‘‘(B) in operating programs on a statewide, 
regionwide, or nationwide basis to improve pa-
tient safety and the quality of health care deliv-
ered in health care settings; and 
‘‘(C) in working with a variety of institu-
tional health care providers, physicians and 
other health care practitioners. 
‘‘(2) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.—The entity is 
a nonprofit entity organized for charitable purposes 
under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986. 
‘‘(3) GOVERNANCE.—The entity is governed by 
a board that includes representatives of multiple 
health care and nonhealth care stakeholders (includ-
ing consumers), such that representatives of no sin-
gle stakeholder group constitute a majority. 
‘‘(4) ENTITIES
WITH
OTHER
EXISTING
CON-
TRACTS.—The performance of services under this 
act shall be deemed not to create a conflict of inter-
est under other existing Federal contracts for qual-
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ity improvement, health information technology tech-
nical assistance, or data aggregation. 
‘‘(5) AUDITS.—The Extension Centers shall be 
subject to periodic audit. 
‘‘SEC. 945. FUNDING. 
‘‘For the purpose of carrying out this part, there is 
authorized to be appropriated $200,000,000 for each of 
the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.’’. 
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