In developing the plan under Section 101963, the task force shall address all of the following issues:
(a) The following factors regarding the current health of the population of the county:
- (1) The population served.
- (2) The health status of each population.
- (3) Key health conditions that need to be addressed.
(b) The following factors regarding the economic climate and its impact on health care:
- (1) The characteristics of the regional economy.
- (2) Health care and the regional economy.
(c) Expenditures on health care provided to low-income persons, including all of the following aspects, as related to Los Angeles County:
- (1) The Medi-Cal program and the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
- (2) The federal Medicare Program.
- (3) Other tax-supported programs.
- (4) Other public support of health care programs.
- (5) Charity care.
(d) Health care providers serving low-income patients, including both of the following:
- (1) The public system.
- (2) The private system.
(e) Effectiveness of all of the following aspects of the public health care system:
- (1) Systemwide priorities.
- (2) The public health and communicable disease.
- (3) Preventive care.
- (4) Primary care.
- (5) Specialty care.
- (6) Emergency and trauma care.
- (7) Inpatient care.
- (8) Pharmacies.
- (9) Gaps in the current system of care.
- (10) Disease management.
(f) The following aspects of partnerships with academic medical institutions:
- (1) History.
- (2) Faculty contract.
- (3) Medical staff leadership.
- (4) Long-term planning issues.
(g) The following issues in system financing:
- (1) Adequate leveraging of local resources.
- (2) Maintenance of adequate revenue, local taxes, and taxpayer equity.
- (3) Out-of-county care.
- (4) Operational effectiveness.
- (5) Financial management and information technology.
- (6) Contracts for medical staff.
- (7) Additional service opportunities.
(h) The health care workforce, as follows:
- (1) Demographics.
- (2) Trends.
- (3) Critical shortage areas.
- (4) Training and development.
- (i) Physical plant and facility challenges for the system, specifically a master plan for capital investment.
(j) Potential provider partnerships with all of the following:
- (1) Private hospitals.
- (2) Children’s hospitals.
- (3) Federal Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.
- (4) Academic medical centers.
- (5) Community primary care.
- (6) Other health care agencies.
(k) System governance, including, but not limited to:
- (1) The background of system governance.
- (2) The role of local government.
- (3) The role of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
- (4) The role of county health-related commissions.
- (5) The role of the state government.
- (6) The role of the federal government.