AGENCY: Box Elder County (Utah). Pioneer Care Center
SERIES: 4745
TITLE: Hill-Burton uncompensated care program subject files
DATES: 1994.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by subject, thereunder chronological
DESCRIPTION: These files document participation in the Hill-Burton Uncompensated Care Program. The Hill-Burton Act was enacted to provide federal assistance to communities for the construction and modernization of health care facilities. Each medical facility receiving program funds must provide annually a reasonable volume of services to persons unable to pay for those services. Uncompensated services means "services which are made available to persons unable to pay therefor without charge or at a reasonable cost of such services" [42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 53.11(6)(1989)]. The Pioneer Memorial Care Center was constructed with Hill-Burton Act funds.
These files include the Box Elder Plan for providing uncompensated nursing home care 1980; copies of state and federal rules and regulations; Utah Fact Sheet Financial Assistance, 1946-1971; related correspondence; Notice of availability of Free Nursing Home Care; computation charts; providers guide; Program Notices; inactive applications for uncompensated services (containing name, address, phone, occupation, employer, gross family income for last three months, and total income for last twelve months, family size (names and relationships), date and signature); and attached authorization calculation sheet (includes income, whether eligible for no-pay or part-pay, or ineligible, date and signature of person determining eligibility, and date applicant provided a copy of application).
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.
APPROVED: 12/1990
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in Office for 10 years and then destroy provided litigation, claims, negotiations are resolved.
APPRAISAL
Administrative Legal
This disposition is based solely on the administrative needs expressed by the center's administrator. Though the Center's has legally satisfied federal requirements expressed in 42 CFR 124.510(b)(1989), it would like to maintain the records for an additional 10 years.