Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3886
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Critically ill
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Health information systems
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medicare
Public health personnel
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Technological innovations
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to conduct research to assess: (1) the standardization of critical care protocols, intensive care unit layout, equipment interoperability, and medical informatics; and (2) the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care.
 
Requires the Secretary to undertake demonstration projects to: (1) optimize the provision of critical care services to Medicare beneficiaries through innovations in such areas as staffing and utilization of technology; and (2) measure and evaluate outcomes derived from a &quot;family-centered&quot; approach to the provision of inpatient critical care services that includes direct and sustained communication and contact with the beneficiary family members, involvement of family members in the critical care decisionmaking process, and responsiveness of critical care providers to family requests.
 
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2013 for augmenting the delivery of critical care services in the rural inpatient setting through the use of telecommunications systems that allow for consultation with critical care providers not located in the rural facility regarding the care of such patients. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to give preference in awarding telehealth grant funds to entities to develop plans for, or to establish, such critical care telehealth networks.
 
Requires the Secretary to undertake an initiative to recruit providers of critical care services into the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in House