§ 128165
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The department shall carry out periodic onsite visitations of each approved project and shall evaluate each project to determine the following:
(a)The new health skills taught or extent that existing skills have been reallocated.
(b)Implication of the project for existing licensure laws with suggestions for changes in the law where appropriate.
(c)Implications of the project for health services curricula and for the health care delivery systems.
(d)Teaching methods used in the project.
(e)The quality of care and patient acceptance in the project.
(f)The extent that persons with the new skills could find employment in the health care system, assuming laws were changed to incorporate their skill.
(g)The cost of care provided in the project, the likely cost of this care if performed by the trainees subsequent to the project, and the cost for provision of this care by current providers thereof.
All data collected by the department and by projects approved pursuant to this article shall become public information, with due regard for the confidentiality of individual patient information. The raw data on which projects’ reports are based and the data on which the department’s evaluation is based shall be available on request for review by interested parties. The department shall provide a reasonable opportunity for interested parties to submit dissenting views or challenges to reports to the Legislature and professional licensing boards required by this section.
The department shall publish those comments, subject only to nonsubstantive editing, as part of its annual, or any special, reports.