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House Bill 0347




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 347

        By Representative Ziebarth






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to family practice teaching

  3         hospitals; amending s. 395.806, F.S.; revising

  4         eligibility for designation as a family

  5         practice teaching hospital; amending s.

  6         395.807, F.S.; revising membership and duties

  7         of the family practice physician retention

  8         advisory committee; providing an effective

  9         date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and

14  subsection (2) of section 395.806, Florida Statutes, are

15  amended, and subsection (4) is added to said section, to read:

16         395.806  Designation of family practice teaching

17  hospitals.--

18         (1)(a)  A community hospital that offers a family

19  practice residency program of at least 18 positions for

20  resident family practice physicians is eligible for

21  designation as a family practice teaching hospital.

22         (2)(a)  A family practice teaching hospital must fill

23  at least 90 percent of its positions for resident family

24  practice physicians.

25         (b)  A family practice teaching hospital that has

26  residency programs other than family practice must maintain at

27  least 60 percent of its total residents in family practice.

28         (4)  A teaching hospital, as defined in s. 408.07, is

29  not eligible for designation as a family practice teaching

30  hospital.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 347

    559-130-97






  1         Section 2.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of

  2  section 395.807, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

  3         395.807  Retention of family practice residents.--

  4         (2)(a)  The director of the agency shall appoint a

  5  seven-member family practice physician retention advisory

  6  committee, consisting of a faculty member of a family practice

  7  teaching hospital, an active family practice resident, a

  8  member of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, a member

  9  of the Florida Society of the American College of Osteopathic

10  Family Physicians, a family practice physician who serves as a

11  medical director for a health maintenance organization

12  practices in an urban area, a family practice physician who

13  practices in a rural area, and the residency director of a

14  family practice residency program.

15         (b)  The committee shall develop a program for

16  recruiting minority physicians into family practice residency

17  programs and shall promote further efforts to recruit, retain,

18  and place minority physicians as family practice physicians

19  into local communities.

20         Section 3.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1997.

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23                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Revises requirements for eligibility for designation as a
25    family practice teaching hospital to stipulate that such
      a hospital must be a community hospital and may not be a
26    statutory teaching hospital.  Eliminates requirement that
      such hospital maintain at least 60 percent of its total
27    residents in family practice.  Replaces the urban
      physician member of the family practice physician
28    retention advisory committee with a health maintenance
      organization medical director.  Directs the committee to
29    promote recruitment of family practice physicians into
      local communities, rather than develop a program for
30    recruiting minority physicians as family practice
      residents.
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