October 3, 2014
Representative Patricia Dillon has been named Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey’s designee to the Bipartisan Roundtable on Hospitals and Health Care.
“We took major steps this year to enhance transparency and oversight of hospital conversions and physician practice mergers,” said Speaker of the House Sharkey. “It is important for the legislature to continue to take an active role in monitoring the evolving health care landscape to help ensure access to quality affordable services. Rep. Dillon has been a leader in this area for over twenty years.”
The goal of the Round Table is to reach out to policy makers, hospitals, physicians, hospital and health facility employees and staff, patient advocates, health insurers, local officials and other stakeholders to monitor the implementation of recent legislation, discuss the rapid changes in the health care market and develop policy recommendations to help ensure continued access to affordable quality care in Connecticut.
Rep. Dillon authored the state’s original hospital conversion law in 1997. Her legislation to regulate the sale of non-profit hospitals to for-profit entities was profiled in the New York Times.