Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital: clinics: licensure and regulation: exemption.

Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure of clinics, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, specified types of clinics are exempted from these licensing provisions, including clinics conducted, operated, or maintained as outpatient departments of hospitals, and clinics operated by nonprofit corporations that satisfy requirements regarding medical research and the receipt of charitable contributions and bequests. This bill would expand the licensing exemption to include any clinic operated by a nonprofit corporation that provides health care services within any zip code that is located within six miles of the physical location of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, is located in the Los Angeles County Service Planning Area 6, and meets specified requirements, such as serving indigent and uninsured individuals pursuant to a charity care policy and participating in a graduate medical education program that is administered by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital. The bill would, by July 1, 2022, require each clinic that is exempt from clinic licensing provisions pursuant to this exemption to report to the Legislature on specified topics, including a community needs assessment for physicians and surgeons. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides that Medi-Cal funding be made available to a new hospital, now known as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, to serve the population of South Los Angeles. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1206 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 1128 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1128 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.