4590-0915 Public Health Hospitals

For the maintenance and operation of Tewksbury hospital, Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children, Lemuel Shattuck hospital and the hospital bureau, including the state office of pharmacy services; provided, that reimbursements received for medical services provided at the Lemuel Shattuck hospital to incarcerated persons from houses of correction not managed by private health care vendors shall be credited to item 45900903 of section 2B; provided further, that not less than $200,000 in retained revenue shall be expended for the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children summer program; provided further, that the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children shall maintain not less than 120 beds for clients in its inpatient setting to the extent feasible within the appropriation; provided further, that Tewksbury hospital shall maintain at least the same number of beds in fiscal year 2024 as was maintained in fiscal year 2023; provided further, that the department of public health shall expend not less than $500,000 to municipalities hosting a department of public health facility that also acts as a department of mental health continuing care facility; and provided further, that the department shall seek to obtain federal financial participation for care provided to inmates of the department of correction and county correctional facilities who are treated at the public health hospitals