Extends the facility need review approval for licensed intermediate care facilities for people with developmental disabilities that are located in certain areas. (gov sig)
Requires DHH to study and evaluate all possible models of care which seek to maximize the use of community hospitals for providing of acute and inpatient care currently being provided by the hospital system operated by LSU Health Sciences Center. (gov sig)
Provides for the definition of major teaching hospital for the purposes of hospital prospective reimbursement methodology. (8/15/10) (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
Requires the office of vital statistics of the Department of Health and Hospitals to allow the secretary of the Department of Revenue to have automated access and retrieval of birth certificate and death certificate information. (gov sig)
Urges and requests the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board to study and make recommendations for providing services to persons with injuries arising from sudden internal medical conditions
Requests the Commission on Perinatal Care and Prevention of Infant Mortality to study and make recommendations concerning prevention and treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome
Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study means to facilitate burial of a fetus or fetal remains resulting from a loss of pregnancy at less than twenty weeks' gestation
Memorializes the United States Congress to amend the employer shared responsibility provisions of the Affordable Care Act to eliminate penalties on school districts