Urgent Healthcare Center, Established

(a)The Guam Memorial Hospital Authority shall establish, within the premises of the hospital facility, an urgent healthcare medical services center for non-emergency outpatient medical services. The urgent care center shall serve as a center to treat patients who have an injury or illness that requires immediate care, but are not apparently serious enough to require emergency room attention.

(b)Criteria for Urgent Healthcare Center. The Urgent Healthcare Center shall seek to develop and maintain a standard of medical care that meets the minimum criteria and requirements for primary care or urgent care services, as set forth by the Joint Commission and the CMS. CH. 80 GUAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITY

(c)The Guam Memorial Hospital Authority

(GMHA)shall within thirty

(30)days of enactment of this Act: establish a working group comprised of the necessary expertise, including the Chairperson of the GMHA Emergency Medicine Department or his designee to develop:

(1)Urgent Healthcare Center operational criteria;

(2)identify adequate, available space for the establishment of the Urgent Healthcare Center; and,

(3)a plan of action, inclusive of the financial requirements to commence the requisite processes necessary for GMHA to establish an Urgent Healthcare Center.

(d)Within ninety days of the establishment of the working group, the Administrator shall present a report addressing items (1),

(2)and

(3)of Subsection

(c)to the GMHA Board of Trustees for their approval of the execution to establish the Urgent Healthcare Center.

(e)The Administrator shall, upon approval of the plan of action by the GMHA Board of Trustees, submit to I Liheslaturan Guåhan a copy of the final report.