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line 1 (11) If applicable, a report on the community benefits efforts line 2 of the preceding year, including the amounts and types of line 3 community benefits provided, in a manner to be prescribed by the line 4 office; a statement of the plan’s impact on health outcomes, line 5 including a description of the private nonprofit hospital’s or line 6 nonprofit multispecialty clinic’s progress toward meeting its short- line 7 and long-term goals and objectives; and an evaluation of the plan’s line 8 effectiveness. line 9 (d) A private nonprofit hospital or nonprofit multispecialty clinic line 10 may also report on bad debts and Medicare shortfalls, although line 11 these shall not be calculated or reported as community benefits. line 12 (e) The governing board of a private nonprofit hospital or line 13 nonprofit multispecialty clinic shall adopt the community benefits line 14 plan. A private nonprofit hospital or nonprofit multispecialty clinic line 15 shall make its draft community benefits plan available to the public, line 16 in hard copy and on its Internet Web site, no later than 30 days line 17 prior to its adoption by the governing board of the private nonprofit line 18 hospital or nonprofit multispecialty clinic. line 19 (f) After April 1, 2015, a private nonprofit hospital or nonprofit line 20 multispecialty clinic shall, every two years, revise and submit its line 21 community benefits plan to the office, no later than 120 days after line 22 the end of the hospital’s or clinic’s fiscal year. line 23 (g) A person or entity may file comments on a private nonprofit line 24 hospital’s or nonprofit multispecialty clinic’s community benefits line 25 plan with the office. line 26 (h) A private nonprofit hospital or nonprofit multispecialty line 27 clinic, under the common control of a single corporation or another line 28 entity, may file a consolidated plan if the plan addresses services line 29 in all of the categories listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) to line 30 be provided by each hospital or clinic under common control of line 31 the corporation or entity. line 32 line 33 Article 3. Duties of the Office of Statewide Health Planning line 34 and Development line 35 line 36 127487. (a) (1) The office shall develop and adopt regulations line 37 to prescribe a standardized format for community benefits plans line 38 pursuant to this chapter. line 39 (2) The office shall develop a standardized methodology for line 40 estimating the economic value of community benefits. 96 — 14 —AB 975