70.185.060 - Duties and responsibilities of participating communities.

Duties and responsibilities of participating communities.

The duties and responsibilities of participating communities shall include:

     (1) To involve major health care providers, businesses, public officials, and other community leaders in project design, administration, and oversight;

     (2) To identify an individual or organization to serve as the local administrator of the project. The secretary may require the local administrator to maintain acceptable accountability of seed grant funding;

     (3) To coordinate and avoid duplication of public health and other health care services;

     (4) To assess and analyze community health care professional needs;

     (5) To write a health care professional recruitment and retention strategic plan;

     (6) To screen and contract with consultants for technical assistance if the project site was selected to receive funding and assistance is needed;

     (7) To monitor and evaluate the project in an ongoing manner;

     (8) To provide data and comply with other requirements of the administrator that are intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects;

     (9) To assure that specific populations with unmet health care needs have access to services.

[1991 c 332 § 12.]