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with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Existing <br />law requires the statewide office to make the plans available to the <br />public. Existing law requires that each hospital include in its community <br />benefits plan measurable objectives and specific benefits. <br />This bill would declare the necessity of establishing uniform standards <br />for reporting the amount of charity care and community benefits a <br />facility provides to ensure that private nonprofit hospitals and nonprofit <br />multispecialty clinics actually meet the social obligations for which <br />they receive favorable tax treatment, among other findings and <br />declarations. <br />This bill would require a private nonprofit hospital and nonprofit <br />multispecialty clinic, as defined, by January 1, 2015, to develop, in <br />collaboration with the community, a community benefits statement, as <br />specified, and a description of the process for approval of the community <br />benefits statement by the hospital’s or clinic’s governing board, as <br />specified. This bill would require the hospital or clinic, prior to adopting <br />a community benefits plan, to complete a community needs assessment, <br />as provided. The bill would authorize the hospital or clinic to create a <br />community benefits advisory committee for the purpose of soliciting <br />community input. This bill would require the hospital or clinic to make <br />available to the public a copy of the assessment, file the assessment <br />with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and <br />update the assessment at least every 3 years. <br />This bill would also require a private nonprofit hospital and nonprofit <br />multispecialty clinic, by April 1, 2015, to develop a community benefits <br />plan that includes a summary of the needs assessment and a statement <br />of the community health care needs that will be addressed by the plan, <br />and list the services, as provided, that the hospital or clinic intends to <br />provide in the following year to address community health needs <br />identified in the community health needs assessments. The bill would <br />require the hospital or clinic to make its community health needs <br />assessment and community benefits plan or community health plan <br />available to the public on its Internet Web site and would require that <br />a copy of the assessment and plan be given free of charge to any person <br />upon request. <br />This bill would require a private nonprofit hospital or nonprofit <br />multispecialty clinic, after April 1, 2015, every 2 years to revise and <br />submit its community benefits plan to the Office of Statewide Health <br />Planning and Development, as specified, and would allow a hospital <br />or clinic under the common control of a single corporation or other <br />96 <br />— 2 —AB 975 <br />