Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part I - General Administration › Subpart 5 - Health Planning › Chapter 105 - Statewide Health Priorities › Section I-10501 - National and State Priorities

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. In
				  Section 1523 of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of
				  1979 ( Public Law 96-79), the United States Congress charged the State Health
				  Planning and Development Agency with responsibility for determining the health
				  needs of the state. In Section 1502 of the same Act, Congress outlined 17
				  national health priorities which were found to deserve special consideration in
				  the development and operation of federal, state and area health planning and
				  resources development programs. These national priorities are:
1. the provision of primary care services for
				  medically underserved populations, especially those in rural or economically
				  depressed areas;
2. the development
				  of multi-institutional systems for coordination or consolidation of
				  institutional health services (including obstetric, pediatric, emergency
				  medical, intensive and coronary care, and radiation therapy
				  services);
3. the development of
				  medical group practices (especially those whose services are appropriately
				  coordinated or integrated with institutional health services), health
				  maintenance organizations, and other organized systems for the provision of
				  health care;
4. the training and
				  increased utilization of physician assistants, especially nurse
				  clinicians;
5. the development of
				  multi-institutional arrangements for the sharing of support services necessary
				  to all health service institutions;
6. the promotion of activities to achieve
				  needed improvements in the quality of health services, including needs
				  identified by the review activities of Professional Standards Review
				  Organizations under part B of Title XI of the Social Security Act;
7. the development of health service
				  institutions of the capacity to provide various levels of care (including
				  intensive care, acute general care, and extended care) on a geographically
				  integrated basis;
8. the promotion
				  of activities for the prevention of disease, including studies of nutritional
				  and environmental factors affecting health and the provision of preventive
				  health care services;
9. the
				  adoption of uniform cost accounting, simplified reimbursement, utilization
				  reporting systems, improved management procedures for health service
				  institutions, and the development and use of cost saving technology;
10. the development of effective methods of
				  educating the general public concerning proper personal (including preventive)
				  health care and methods for effective use of available health
				  service;
11. the promotion of an
				  effective energy conservation and fuel efficiency program for health service
				  institutions to reduce the rate of growth of demand for energy;
12. the identification and discontinuance of
				  duplicative or unneeded services and facilities;
13. the adoption of policies which will (a)
				  contain the rapidly rising costs of health care delivery, (b) insure more
				  appropriate use of health care services, and (c) promote greater efficiency in
				  the health care delivery system;
14. the elimination of inappropriate
				  placement in institutions of persons with mental health problems and the
				  improvement of the quality of care provided those with mental health problems
				  for whom institutional care is appropriate;
15. assurance of access to community mental
				  health centers and other mental health care providers for needed mental health
				  services to emphasize the provision of outpatient as a preferable alternative
				  to inpatient mental health services;
16. the promotion of those health services
				  which are provided in a manner cognizant of the emotional and psychological
				  components of the prevention and treatment of illness and the maintenance of
				  health; and
17. the strengthening
				  of competitive forces in the health services industry wherever competition and
				  consumer choice can constructively serve to advance the purposes of quality
				  assurance, cost effectiveness, and access.