(1) At least once each year, each hospital shall convene a public meeting to seek feedback regarding the hospital's community benefit activities during the previous year and the hospital's community benefit implementation plan for the following year.
(2) (a) Each hospital shall invite, at a minimum, representatives from the following entities to participate in the meeting described in subsection (1) of this section, if any such entities operate in the hospital's community:
Local public health agencies;
Local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations;
Local health care consumer organizations;
School districts;
County governments;
City and town governments;
Community health centers;
Certified rural health clinics or primary care clinics located in a county that hasbeen designated by the federal office of management and budget as a rural or frontier county;
Area agencies on aging; and
Health care consumer advocacy organizations.
(b) In addition to the entities described in subsection (2)(a) of this section, each hospital shall invite, at a minimum, representatives from the following state agencies to participate in the meeting described in subsection (1) of this section:
The state department;
The department of public health and environment;
The department of human services;
The Colorado commission on higher education; and
The office of saving people money on healthcare in the lieutenant governor's office.
(c) In addition to the entities described in subsections (2)(a) and (2)(b) of this section, each hospital shall invite the general public to the annual meeting described in subsection (1) of this section. The hospital shall issue such invitation in an advertisement placed in any major newspaper published in the hospital's community.
(3) To satisfy the requirements of this section, a hospital may convene a joint public meeting with one or more other hospitals that share some or all of the hospital's community.
Source: L. 2019: Entire part added, (HB 19-1320), ch. 191, p. 2107, § 1, effective August 2.