MEMBERSHIP OF HOSPITAL

GOVERNING BODY

House Bill 5211

Sponsor: Rep. Mark Schauer

Committee: Health Policy

Complete to 8-28-00

A SUMMARY OF HOUSE BILL 5211 AS INTRODUCED 12-10-99

The bill would amend the Public Health Code to require, as a condition of licensure, that a hospital ensure that the members of its governing body be representative of the community served by the hospital. Under the bill, "community" would mean a city, township, village, or county, or a combination of one or more of those local governmental units. Each hospital would have to annually provide the Department of Consumer and Industry Services with a list of its board of trustees. The following information would have to be included on the list:

1. the name, address, and telephone number of each trustee;

1. the occupation and place of employment of each trustee; and

1. the race, gender, and age of each trustee, along with any other information that the hospital determined to be reflective of the representative nature of the board of trustees.

Further, the bill would require one board member to be a nonmanagerial employee of the hospital. The nonmanagerial employees of a hospital would have to elect this member in a secret ballot election conducted at the hospital.

MCL 333.21512

Analyst: S. Stutzky