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MN Stat § 144.696 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.696 — Definitions.

144.696 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Scope. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, for the purposes of sections 144.695 to 144.703, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. Subd. 2. Commissioner of health. "Commissioner of health" means the state commissioner of health. Subd. 3. Hospital. "Hospital" means any acute care institution licensed pursuant to sections 144.50 to 144.58, but does not include any health care institution conducted for those who rely primarily upon treatment by prayer or spiritual means in accordance with the creed or tenets of any church or denomination. Subd. 4. Outpatient surgical center. "Outpatient surgical center" means a facility other than a hospital offering elective outpatient surgery under a license issued under sections 144.50 to 144.58. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 2; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1984 c 534 s 4
MN Stat § 144.697 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.697 — General Powers And Duties Of State Commissioner Of Health.

144.697 GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF STATE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH. Subdivision 1. Contracts. The commissioner of health may contract with third parties for services necessary to carry out the commissioner's activities where this will promote economy, avoid duplication of effort, and make best use of available expertise. Subd. 2. Grants; gifts. The commissioner of health may apply for and receive grants and gifts from any governmental agency, private entity or other person. Subd. 3. Committees. To further the purposes of sections 144.695 to 144.703, the commissioner of health may create committees from the membership and may appoint ad hoc advisory committees. Subd. 4. Coordinating rules and inspections. The commissioner of health shall coordinate regulation and inspection of hospitals to avoid, to the extent possible, conflicting rules and duplicative inspections. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 3; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 144.698 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.698 — Reporting Requirements.

144.698 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Subdivision 1. Yearly reports. Each hospital and each outpatient surgical center, which has not filed the financial information required by this section with a voluntary, nonprofit reporting organization pursuant to section 144.702, shall file annually with the commissioner of health after the close of the fiscal year: (1) a balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the hospital or outpatient surgical center; (2) a detailed statement of income and expenses; (3) a copy of its most recent cost report, if any, filed pursuant to requirements of Title XVIII of the United States Social Security Act; (4) a copy of all changes to articles of incorporation or bylaws; (5) information on services provided to benefit the community, including services provided at no cost or for a reduced fee to patients unable to pay, teaching and research activities, or other community or charitable activities; (6) information required on the revenue and expense report form set in effect on July 1, 1989, or as amended by the commissioner in rule; (7) information on changes in ownership or control; (8) other information required by the commissioner in rule; (9) information on the number of available hospital beds that are dedicated to certain specialized services, as designated by the commissioner, and annual occupancy rates for those beds, separately for adult and pediatric care; (10) from outpatient surgical centers, the total number of surgeries; and (11) a report on health care capital expenditures during the previous year, as required by section 62J.17. Subd. 2. Separate reports for facilities. If more than one licensed hospital or outpatient surgical center is operated by the reporting organization, the commissioner of health may require that the information be reported separately for each hospital and each outpatient surgical center. Subd. 3. Attestation. The commissioner of health may require attestation by responsible officials of the hospital or outpatient surgical center that the contents of the reports are true. Subd. 4. Reports open to public inspection. All reports, except privileged medical information, filed pursuant to this section, section 144.701 or section 144.702, subdivision 3 or 4 shall be open to public inspection. Subd. 5. Commissioner's right to inspect records. If the report is not filed or the commissioner of health has reason to believe the report is incomplete or false, the commissioner shall have the right to inspect hospital and outpatient surgical center books, audits, and records. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 4; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1984 c 534 s 5; 1989 c 282 art 2 s 11; 1991 c 202 s 7; 2004 c 198 s 13,14; 2007 c 147 art 15 s 13
MN Stat § 144.70 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.70 — Biennial Report.

144.70 BIENNIAL REPORT. Subdivision 1. Content. The commissioner of health shall prepare a report every two years concerning the status and operations of the health care markets in Minnesota. The commissioner of health shall transmit the reports to the governor, and to the members of the legislature under section 3.195. The first report must be submitted on January 15, 1987, and succeeding reports on January 15 every two years. Each report must contain information, analysis, and appropriate recommendations concerning the following issues associated with Minnesota health care markets: (1) the overall status of the health care cost problem, including the costs faced by employers and individuals, and prospects for the problem's improving or getting worse; (2) the status of competitive forces in the market for health services and the market for health plans, and the effect of the forces on the health care cost problem; (3) the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of facilitating development of strengthened competitive forces through state initiatives; (4) the feasibility of limiting health care costs by means other than competitive forces, including direct forms of government intervention such as price regulation; the commissioner of health may exclude this issue from the report if the report concludes that the overall status of the health care cost problem is improving, or that competitive forces are contributing significantly to health care cost containment; (5) the overall status of access to adequate health services by citizens of Minnesota, the scope of financial and geographic barriers to access, the effect of competitive forces on access, and prospects for access improving or getting worse; (6) the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of enhancing access to adequate health services by citizens of Minnesota through state initiatives; and (7) the commissioner of health's operations and activities for the preceding two years as they relate to the duties imposed on the commissioner of health by sections 144.695 to 144.703. Subd. 2. Interagency cooperation. In completing the report required by subdivision 1, in fulfilling the requirements of sections 144.695 to 144.703, and in undertaking other initiatives concerning health care costs, access, or quality, the commissioner of health shall cooperate with and consider potential benefits to other state agencies that have a role in the market for health services or the market for health plans. Other agencies include the Department of Management and Budget, as administrator of the state employee health benefits program; the Department of Human Services, as administrator of health services entitlement programs; the Department of Commerce, in its regulation of health plans; the Department of Labor and Industry, in its regulation of health service costs under workers' compensation. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 6; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 11; 1991 c 345 art 2 s 37; 1994 c 411 s 2; 2008 c 204 s 42; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 144.701 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.701 — Rate Disclosure.

144.701 RATE DISCLOSURE. Subdivision 1. Consumer information. The commissioner of health shall ensure that the total costs, total revenues, overall utilization, and total services of each hospital and each outpatient surgical center are reported to the public in a form understandable to consumers. Subd. 2. Data for policy making. The commissioner of health shall compile relevant financial and accounting, utilization, and services data concerning hospitals and outpatient surgical centers in order to have statistical information available for legislative policy making. Subd. 3. Rate schedule. The commissioner of health shall obtain from each hospital and outpatient surgical center a current rate schedule. Any subsequent amendments or modifications of that schedule shall be filed with the commissioner of health on or before their effective date. Subd. 4. Filing fees. Each report which is required to be submitted to the commissioner of health under sections 144.695 to 144.703 and which is not submitted to a voluntary, nonprofit reporting organization in accordance with section 144.702 shall be accompanied by a filing fee in an amount prescribed by rule of the commissioner of health. Upon the withdrawal of approval of a reporting organization, or the decision of the commissioner to not renew a reporting organization, fees collected under section 144.702 shall be submitted to the commissioner. Fees received under this subdivision shall be deposited in a revolving fund and are appropriated to the commissioner of health for the purposes of sections 144.695 to 144.703. The commissioner shall report the termination or nonrenewal of the voluntary reporting organization to the chair of the Health and Human Services Finance Committee of the house of representatives, to the chair of the Health and Human Services Division of the Finance Committee of the senate, and the commissioner of management and budget. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 7; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1984 c 534 s 7; 1989 c 282 art 2 s 12; 1998 c 407 art 2 s 27-29; 2004 c 284 art 2 s 15; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 144.703 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.703 — Additional Powers.

144.703 ADDITIONAL POWERS. Subdivision 1. Rulemaking. In addition to the other powers granted to the commissioner of health by law, the commissioner of health may: (1) adopt, amend, and repeal rules in accordance with chapter 14; (2) adopt in rule a schedule of fines, ranging from $100 to $1,000, for failure of a hospital or an outpatient surgical center to submit, or to make a timely submission of, information called for by sections 144.695 to 144.703. Subd. 2. Contested cases. Any person aggrieved by a final determination of the commissioner of health as to any rule or determination under sections 144.695 to 144.703 shall be entitled to an administrative hearing and judicial review in accordance with the contested case provisions of chapter 14. History:  1976 c 296 art 2 s 9; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1984 c 534 s 9
MN Stat § 144.7055 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.7055 — Staffing Plan Reports.

144.7055 STAFFING PLAN REPORTS. Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Core staffing plan" means the projected number of full-time equivalent nonmanagerial care staff that will be assigned in a 24-hour period to an inpatient care unit. (c) "Nonmanagerial care staff" means registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and other health care workers, which may include but is not limited to nursing assistants, nursing aides, patient care technicians, and patient care assistants, who perform nonmanagerial direct patient care functions for more than 50 percent of their scheduled hours on a given patient care unit. (d) "Inpatient care unit" means a designated inpatient area for assigning patients and staff for which a distinct staffing plan exists and that operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week in a hospital setting. Inpatient care unit does not include any hospital-based clinic, long-term care facility, or outpatient hospital department. (e) "Staffing hours per patient day" means the number of full-time equivalent nonmanagerial care staff who will ordinarily be assigned to provide direct patient care divided by the expected average number of patients upon which such assignments are based. (f) "Patient acuity tool" means a system for measuring an individual patient's need for nursing care. This includes utilizing a professional registered nursing assessment of patient condition to assess staffing need. Subd. 2. Hospital staffing report. (a) The chief nursing executive or nursing designee of every reporting hospital in Minnesota under section 144.50 will develop a core staffing plan for each patient care unit. (b) Core staffing plans shall specify the full-time equivalent for each patient care unit for each 24-hour period. (c) Prior to submitting the core staffing plan, as required in subdivision 3, hospitals shall consult with representatives of the hospital medical staff, managerial and nonmanagerial care staff, and other relevant hospital personnel about the core staffing plan and the expected average number of patients upon which the staffing plan is based. Subd. 3. Standard electronic reporting developed. (a) Hospitals must submit the core staffing plans to the Minnesota Hospital Association by January 1, 2014. The Minnesota Hospital Association shall include each reporting hospital's core staffing plan on the Minnesota Hospital Association's Minnesota Hospital Quality Report website by April 1, 2014. Any substantial changes to the core staffing plan shall be updated within 30 days. (b) The Minnesota Hospital Association shall include on its website for each reporting hospital on a quarterly basis the actual direct patient care hours per patient and per unit. Hospitals must submit the direct patient care report to the Minnesota Hospital Association by July 1, 2014, and quarterly thereafter. History:   2013 c 51 s 1
MN Stat § 144.706 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.706 — Citation.

144.706 CITATION. Sections 144.706 to 144.7069 may be cited as the "Minnesota Adverse Health Care Events Reporting Act of 2003." History:   2003 c 99 s 1
MN Stat § 144.7063 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.7063 — Definitions.

144.7063 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Scope. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, for the purposes of sections 144.706 to 144.7069, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of health. Subd. 3. Facility. "Facility" means a hospital or outpatient surgical center licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.58. Subd. 4. Serious disability. "Serious disability" means (1) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual or a loss of bodily function, if the impairment or loss lasts more than seven days or is still present at the time of discharge from an inpatient health care facility, or (2) loss of a body part. Subd. 5. Surgery. "Surgery" means the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by manual or operative methods. Surgery includes endoscopies and other invasive procedures. History:  2003 c 99 s 2,7; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 7 s 84; 2004 c 198 s 15
MN Stat § 144.7067 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.7067 — Commissioner Duties And Responsibilities.

144.7067 COMMISSIONER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Subdivision 1. Establishment of reporting system. (a) The commissioner shall establish an adverse health event reporting system designed to facilitate quality improvement in the health care system. The reporting system shall not be designed to punish errors by health care practitioners or health care facility employees. (b) The reporting system shall consist of: (1) mandatory reporting by facilities of 27 adverse health care events; (2) mandatory completion of a root cause analysis and a corrective action plan by the facility and reporting of the findings of the analysis and the plan to the commissioner or reporting of reasons for not taking corrective action; (3) analysis of reported information by the commissioner to determine patterns of systemic failure in the health care system and successful methods to correct these failures; (4) sanctions against facilities for failure to comply with reporting system requirements; and (5) communication from the commissioner to facilities, health care purchasers, and the public to maximize the use of the reporting system to improve health care quality. (c) The commissioner is not authorized to select from or between competing alternate acceptable medical practices. Subd. 2. Duty to analyze reports; communicate findings. The commissioner shall: (1) analyze adverse event reports, corrective action plans, and findings of the root cause analyses to determine patterns of systemic failure in the health care system and successful methods to correct these failures; (2) communicate to individual facilities the commissioner's conclusions, if any, regarding an adverse event reported by the facility; (3) communicate with relevant health care facilities any recommendations for corrective action resulting from the commissioner's analysis of submissions from facilities; and (4) publish an annual report: (i) describing, by institution, adverse events reported; (ii) outlining, in aggregate, corrective action plans and the findings of root cause analyses; and (iii) making recommendations for modifications of state health care operations. Subd. 3. Sanctions. (a) The commissioner shall take steps necessary to determine if adverse event reports, the findings of the root cause analyses, and corrective action plans are filed in a timely manner. The commissioner may sanction a facility for: (1) failure to file a timely adverse event report under section 144.7065, subdivision 1; or (2) failure to conduct a root cause analysis, to implement a corrective action plan, or to provide the findings of a root cause analysis or corrective action plan in a timely fashion under section 144.7065, subdivision 8. (b) If a facility fails to develop and implement a corrective action plan or report to the commissioner why corrective action is not needed, the commissioner may suspend, revoke, fail to renew, or place conditions on the license under which the facility operates. History:   2003 c 99 s 4
MN Stat § 144.7068 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.7068 — Reports From Licensing Boards.

144.7068 REPORTS FROM LICENSING BOARDS. (a) Effective upon full implementation of the adverse health care events reporting system, the records maintained under sections 147.155, 147A.155, 148.267, 151.301, and 153.255, shall be reported to the commissioner on the schedule established in those sections. (b) The commissioner shall forward these reports to the facility named in the report. (c) The facility shall determine whether the event has been previously reported under section 144.7065. The facility shall notify the commissioner whether the event has been reported previously. If the event has not been previously reported, the facility shall make a determination whether the event was reportable under section 144.7065. If the facility determines the event was reportable, the date of discovery of the event for the purposes of section 144.7065, subdivision 10, paragraph (d), shall be as follows: (1) if the commissioner determines that the facility knew or reasonably should have known about the occurrence of the event, the date the event occurred shall be the date of discovery. The facility shall be considered out of compliance with the reporting act, and the event shall be subject to section 626.557 and chapter 260E; or (2) if the commissioner determines that the facility did not know about the occurrence of the event, the date the facility receives the report from the commissioner shall serve as the date of discovery. If the facility determines that the event was not reportable under section 144.7065, the facility shall notify the commissioner of that determination. History:  2004 c 186 s 2; 1Sp2020 c 2 art 8 s 22
MN Stat § 144.7069 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.7069 — Interstate Coordination; Reports.

144.7069 INTERSTATE COORDINATION; REPORTS. The commissioner shall report the definitions and the list of reportable events adopted in this act to the National Quality Forum and, working in coordination with the National Quality Forum, to the other states. The commissioner shall monitor discussions by the National Quality Forum of amendments to the forum's list of reportable events and shall report to the legislature whenever the list is modified. The commissioner shall also monitor implementation efforts in other states to establish a list of reportable events and shall make recommendations to the legislature as necessary for modifications in the Minnesota list or in the other components of the Minnesota reporting system to keep the system as nearly uniform as possible with similar systems in other states. History:   2003 c 99 s 5
MN Stat § 144.71 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 144 — Department Of Health|Section 144.71 — Purpose; Definitions.

144.71 PURPOSE; DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Health and safety. The purpose of sections 144.71 to 144.74 is to protect the health and safety of persons in attendance at youth camps. Subd. 2. Definition. For the purpose of such sections, a youth camp is defined as a parcel or parcels of land with permanent buildings, tents or other structures together with appurtenances thereon, established or maintained as living quarters where both food and beverage service and lodging or the facilities therefor are provided for ten or more people, operated continuously for a period of five days or more each year for educational, recreational or vacation purposes, and the use of the camp is offered to minors free of charge or for payment of a fee. Subd. 3. What not included in definition. This definition does not include cabin and trailer camps, fishing and hunting camps, resorts, penal and correctional camps, industrial and construction camps, nor does it include homes operated for care or treatment of children and for the operation of which a license is required under the provisions of chapter 257. History:  1951 c 285 s 1; 1974 c 406 s 21; 1993 c 206 s 6; 1996 c 451 art 4 s 8,9