Bill Text: NJ S2613 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires Commissioner of DHSS to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-02-22 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [S2613 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S2613-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator ROBERT W. SINGER
District 30 (Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean)
Senator SEAN T. KEAN
District 11 (Monmouth)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Weinberg
SYNOPSIS
Requires Commissioner of DHSS to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on January 20, 2011, with amendments.
An Act concerning the expansion of medical education programs in the State.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. 1[The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, in consultation with the Commission on Higher Education and the Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of New Jersey, shall assess how medical residency programs can be developed in hospitals that currently are community-based, non-teaching hospitals, to increase the number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs generally throughout the State, and to ensure the existence of medical residency programs in counties in the State that currently have few or no medical residency programs.] The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services shall convene a strategic planning summit comprised of relevant State agencies and boards and key physician-supply stakeholders, including representatives of medical schools and teaching hospitals in the State to:
(1) analyze the State's physician workforce supply, by county and specialty, using the most recent data available, including licensure data from the State Board of Medical Examiners;
(2) discuss the redistribution or expansion, or both, of residency slots in the State to address physician shortages in the State; and
(3) investigate ways to include more community hospitals in resident rotations in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric medicine.1
b. Within six months after the effective date of this act, the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services shall provide a written report with the findings and recommendations of the planning summit to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
