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Health Care Peer Review Committee

Active dates:2001 -

Authority:

2001 Minn. Laws Chap. 210 Sec. 7

Function: The committee gathers, reviews, and evaluates information relating to the on-site and off-site quality of care and treatment of offenders.

History: The Health Care Peer Review Committee was reviewed by the Legislative Commission on Planning and Fiscal Policy (LCPFP) in 2013 as part of their biennial duty required by Minn. Stat. 3.885 Subd. 11. The LCPFP's 2013 Recommendations called for keeping the committee.

The committee does not expire.

Membership: The committee consists of:
(1) the director of health services;
(2) the department medical director;
(3) the regional medical director of the contracted health care vendor;
(4) the department director of nursing;
(5) a physician from the contracting hospital provider; and
(6) another physician who provides health care to offenders on site at a correctional facility.

Agency heads: Commissioner of the Department of Corrections

Internet resource:

MN Dept. of Corrections Health Services Review and Assessment Policy

Reports:

Executive Branch Advisory Group Overviews (August 21, 2013)

Executive Branch Advisory Groups Recommendations (December 18, 2013)

Note: The Legislative Reference Library may have additional reports on or by this group available through our catalog.

Record last updated: 02/20/2015

Additional print information on this group may be available in the Library's collection of agency notebooks. Please contact a librarian for assistance. The Minnesota Agencies database is a work in progress.

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