3.0.0 1020 2023-01-11T13:19:02Z 2023-01-11T13:19:02Z Senate S S 2009-05-12 111 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-05-12T15:36:27Z Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act 111 1581 HR 2009-04-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture. Related bill CRS 2009-05-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2009-05-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI N C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2009-05-12 True G000359 Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] Lindsey Graham R SC 2009-05-12 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2009-07-06 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2009-09-08 False Health Emergency medical services and trauma care Health care coverage and access Health care quality Health technology, devices, supplies Hospital care Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Medical education Medical research Medicare Rural conditions and development Student aid and college costs Health 00 2009-05-12 Introduced in Senate 2009-06-09T20:55:25Z Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to conduct research to assess: (1) the standardization of critical care protocols, intensive care unit layout, equipment interoperability, and medical informatics; and (2) the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care.

Requires the Secretary to undertake demonstration projects to: (1) optimize the provision of critical care services to Medicare beneficiaries through innovations in such areas as staffing and utilization of technology; and (2) measure and evaluate outcomes derived from a "family-centered" approach to the provision of inpatient critical care services that includes direct and sustained communication and contact with the beneficiary family members, involvement of family members in the critical care decisionmaking process, and responsiveness of critical care providers to family requests.

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2015 for augmenting the delivery of critical care services in the rural or other medically underserved area inpatient setting through the use of telecommunications systems that allow for consultation with critical care providers not located in the rural or other medically underserved area facility regarding the care of such patients. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to give preference in awarding telehealth grant funds to entities to develop plans for, or to establish, such critical care telehealth networks.

Requires the Secretary to undertake an initiative to recruit providers of critical care services into the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.

]]> Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act Display Title Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to optimize the delivery of critical care medicine and expand the critical care workforce. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act Introduced in Senate 2009-05-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1020is/xml/BILLS-111s1020is.xml 2009-05-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.