Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act
Latest action · Apr 26, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 23, 2013
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convene a Patient-Centered Health Care and Quality of Life Stakeholder Strategic Summit to: (1) analyze key health system barriers to providing patient-centered health care that integrates symptom management and other aspects of coordinated or palliative care; and (2) identify strategic solutions for collectively addressing quality of life concerns for the rapidly expanding population of patients and survivors facing serious, complex, and chronic illness in the United States and for the families of such patients and survivors. Requires the Secretary to establish a Summit Steering Committee, which shall draft a summary report detailing Summit recommendations for a national strategic action agenda to improve patient-centered care and quality of life.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a national quality of life education and awareness grants program initiative for seriously ill patients, their families, and health professionals who treat them for the purposes of encouraging an increased demand for and delivery of integrated and patient-centered care for managing their pain and symptoms and improving their quality of life. Requires the Director to award competitive grants to develop new and expand existing information, resources, and communication materials about symptom management and other aspects of patient-centered care as an integral part of quality care for serious illnesses.
Directs the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish a health care professional workforce training grants program initiative for purposes of promoting and enhancing symptom assessment and management, communications skills, coordinated patient-centered care, and other quality of life focused clinical core competencies across all clinical specialties that serve seriously ill patients and patients with multiple or complex chronic diseases.
Requires the Secretary: (1) to update and expand the September 2002 HRSA report, titled "The Supply, Demand and Use of Palliative Care Physicians in the United States"; (2) to establish a Quality of Life Cross-Agency Advisory Committee to assist the CDC and HRSA in conducting the national quality of life education and awareness initiative and the health care professional workforce training initiative and to disseminate initiative findings for cross agency implementation of best practices; and (3) acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and implement a strategy to be applied across NIH institutes and centers that is in accordance with the Advisory Committee's recommendations to expand national research programs in symptom management, palliative, psychosocial, and survivorship care.
Cosponsors 137
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 23, 2013 to Dec 11, 2014; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AL | Spencer Bachus | Original | Apr 23, 2013 |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Apr 26, 2013 | |
| R-IA | Tom Latham | May 17, 2013 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Jun 4, 2013 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Jun 4, 2013 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Jun 4, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Jun 11, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Jun 11, 2013 | |
| D-IL | William L. Enyart | Jun 11, 2013 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Jun 18, 2013 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Jun 20, 2013 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Jun 25, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Jun 25, 2013 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Jul 10, 2013 | |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | Jul 10, 2013 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Apr 23, 2013 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 26, 2013 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 23, 2013Introduced in House
- Apr 23, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7253.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2800 | Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act | Identical bill | Sep 11, 2014 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 23, 2013Introduced in House
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