Judiciary Committee
Public Health Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAL FOUNDATIONS
SUMMARY: The law authorizes any hospital or health system to organize and join a medical foundation to practice medicine and provide health care services as a medical foundation through its employees or agents who are licensed physicians and through other specified providers. A medical foundation is a nonprofit entity that may operate at whatever locations its members select.
This act adds certain medical schools to the list of entities that may organize and join a medical foundation for this purpose. To be eligible, a medical school must be (1) a school of allopathic (or conventional) medicine leading to the M. D. degree, (2) accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and (3) affiliated through governance with or part of a university that is incorporated in Connecticut or established under state law and accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Institutions of Higher Education.
The act applies the same provisions in existing law regarding medical foundation governance, organization, powers, limitations, filing requirements, merger and consolidation, and other matters to medical foundations organized by medical schools (CGS §§ 33-182aa to -182ff).
The act also makes a conforming change.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2011
BACKGROUND
Liaison Committee on Medical Education
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education is the accrediting body for medical education programs leading to the M. D. degree in the United States and Canada. It is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association.
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