STAND. COM. REP. NO.820-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2781

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2781 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the State Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services System by:

(1) Establishing a trauma registry for the collection of information concerning the treatment of critical trauma patients at state-designated trauma centers to be implemented and maintained by the Department of Health (DOH);

(2) Allowing the recording of information concerning treatment received before and after a trauma patient's admission to a hospital or medical center; and

(3) Requiring all state-designated trauma centers to submit to DOH periodic reports of each patient treated for trauma in the state system.

DOH testified in support of this measure. The Disability and Communication Access Board submitted testimony supporting the intent of this measure.

A trauma registry will assist in obtaining information for continuous quality improvement of ground ambulance services, referring medical facilities, aeromedical service, and trauma centers. The registry will also provide information to assess prevention control strategies.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2781, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2781, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair