 |
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session
trauma recovery centers; grants
Purpose
Establishes the Trauma Recovery Center Fund (Fund) under the administration of the Director of the Department of Health Services (Director) and outlines grant eligibility criteria and reporting requirements.
Background
The Department of Health Services (DHS) must develop and administer a statewide emergency medical services and trauma system to implement the Arizona emergency medical services and trauma system plan. Statute requires DHS to adopt rules and establish standards, including: 1) injury prevention activities to decrease the incidence of trauma and decrease the societal cost of preventable mortality and morbidity; 2) public access to prehospital emergency medical services; 3) a statewide network of trauma centers that provide trauma care and to which trauma patients can be transported; and 4) a trauma center designation and designation process for health care institutions that provide trauma care (A.R.S. § 36-2225).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
Fund
1. Establishes the Fund consisting of legislative appropriations, grants and contributions.
2. Requires the Director to administer the fund.
3. Requires DHS to use monies in the Fund to provide grants to trauma recovery centers.
4. Requires DHS to establish priorities for the Fund in consultation with a national alliance that supports trauma recovery centers.
5. Requires, for grant eligibility, a trauma recovery center to adhere to the guidelines for operating and implementing trauma recovery centers developed by a national alliance of trauma recovery centers.
6. States that monies in the Fund are subject to legislative appropriation.
7. Exempts the appropriations from lapsing.
DHS Annual Report
8. Requires DHS, by October 1 of each year, to annually report information on the population served by each trauma recovery center that receives grant monies to the:
a) Governor;
b) Secretary of State;
c) Speaker of the House of Representatives; and
d) President of the Senate.
9. Requires the DHS annual report to include.
Miscellaneous
10. Defines a trauma recovery center as a treatment center that provides at least the following resources, treatments and recovery services to crime victims:
a) mental health services;
b) assertive community-based outreach and clinical case management;
c) coordination of care among medical and mental health care providers, law enforcement agencies and other social services;
d) services to family members of homicide victims; and
e) a multidisciplinary staff of clinicians that includes psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers and may include case managers and peer counselors.
11. Defines terms.
12. Contains a legislative findings clause.
13. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
House Action
HHS 2/14/22 DPA 9-0-0-0
3rd Read 2/23/22 49-10-1
Prepared by Senate Research
March 21, 2022
MM/MC/sr