Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 216 - Department of health
Chapter 10 - Public Health Administration
Subchapter 10 - Registries
Part 7 - Health Care Quality Program (216-RICR-10-10-7)
Section 216-RICR-10-10-7.4 - Administrative Requirements
Universal Citation: 216 RI Code of Rules 10 10 7.4
Current through September 18, 2024
7.4.1 Health Care Quality Program Steering Committee
A. The Director shall establish and serve as
chairperson of a Health Care Quality Steering Committee of no more than
nineteen (19) members to advise in the following matters:
1. Determination of the comparable
performance measures to be reported on;
2. Assessment of factors contributing to the
provision of quality health care;
3. Selection of the patient satisfaction
survey measures and instrument;
4.
Methods and format for data collection;
5. Program expansion and quality improvement
initiatives;
6. Format for the
public quality performance measurement report;
7. Consideration of nursing sensitive
performance measures to be reported on;
8. Consideration of the relationship between
human resources and quality, beginning with measurement and reporting for
nursing staff; and
9. Other related
issues as requested by the Director.
B. The members of the Health Care Quality
Performance Steering Committee shall include one member of the House of
Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker; one member of the Senate, to
be appointed by the Majority Leader, the Director or Director's designee of the
Department of Human Services, the Director or the Director's designee of the
Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals, the Director or the
Director's designee of the Department of Elderly Affairs, and thirteen (13)
members to be appointed by the Director of the Department of Health to include
persons representing Rhode Island licensed hospitals and other licensed
facilities/providers, the medical and nursing professions, the business
community, organized labor, consumers, and health insurers and health plans and
other parties committed to health care quality.
1. The Director of Health shall appoint five
(5) members of the Health Care Quality Performance Steering Committee for a one
(1) year term, four (4) members of the Health Care Quality Performance Steering
Committee for a two (2) year term, and four (4) members of the Health Care
Quality Performance Steering Committee for a three (3) year term. Thereafter,
all terms of appointments shall be for three (3) years.
C. The Director of Health may remove any
member of the Health Care Quality Performance Steering Committee appointed by
her/him for cause, including but not limited to, failure to attend Committee
meetings on a regular basis.
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