S.F. No. 2618 Summary

• Commissioner of health awards a grant to a consortium including Healthforce Minnesota at Winona State University and the Minnesota Community Health Care Workers Alliance to train community health care workers as advanced care facilitators.

• Grant funds training of up to 30 community health care workers in a one-day facilitator training conducted by Twin Cities Medical Society, focusing on cultural and language barriers related to advanced care planning.

• Grant requires conducting a survey of trained workers to evaluate training effectiveness and preparing a report with lessons learned and curriculum improvement recommendations to be shared with stakeholders.

• $14,000 appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of health in fiscal year 2017 as a one-time appropriation for the program.