Bill Text: NJ S2613 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2613

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 10, 2011

 

 

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 introduced.

  

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.  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.

     b.    Within six months after the effective date of this act, the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services shall provide a written report with findings and recommendations 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.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     In order to address the impending physician shortage in New Jersey by maximizing medical residency opportunities throughout the State, this bill requires that 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, 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 bill also requires that the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services provide a written report with their findings and recommendations to the Governor and Legislature within six months after the effective date.