The legislature approves the merger hospital bill
A bill granting the Colorado Public Prosecutor General of the verification authority of the hospital non-profit, transactions that would result in “substantial modification” of services was adopted by the House of Representatives Colorado Wednesday by a vote of 39-25.
House Bill 1203, sponsored by Rep. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, and Senator Betty Boyd, D-Lakewood, is now Dir Bill Ritter’s Office to take into account.
The proposal was submitted in response to the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth’s efforts to secure as complete as possible of the property Evang.-Luth Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette.
If the Sisters of Charity, “a success in their efforts to control non-secretarian hospitals, Lutheran and Good Samaritan would be required to comply with medical guidelines Catholics prohibit the reproduction of some services, as well as procedures and End - of-life medical decisions.
Opponents do not want Affairs walk, because by the force of Jefferson County residents to go elsewhere for such services.
Health Care copies, two hospitals managed and Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, sued for the transaction.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers declined last year to block the deal despite objections copies and concerned citizens, he said, from its field of competence to issue an opinion on how substantive change Hospital services would affect the town. However, HP 1203, an avenue where the Attorney General could weigh on such issues.
Carroll and Boyd said while the bill will most likely not affect copies vs The Sisters of Charity “the proposal, it would be useful if similar circumstances with other non-profit health systems in Colorado.
“We have hospitals to merge cancer tissues in Colorado, at times approximates monopolies,” said Carroll, in a statement. … In an age where we try to facilitate access to and improving the quality of care, it is exactly the wrong time to eliminate access to essential services. “
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