SECTION 23 - H510 - MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

23.1. (MUSC: Rural Dentist Program) The Rural Dentist Program, in coordination with the Department of Health and Environmental Controls Public Health Dentistry Program, is established at the Medical University of South Carolina. The funds appropriated to the Medical University of South Carolina for the Rural Dentist Program shall be administered by the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium physician recruitment office. The costs associated with administering this program are to be paid from the funds appropriated to the Rural Dentist Program and shall not exceed four percent of the appropriation. The Medical University of South Carolina is responsible for the fiscal management of funds to ensure that state policies and guidelines are adhered to. MUSC shall be permitted to carry forward unspent general funds appropriated to the Rural Dentist program provided that these

funds be expended for the program for which they were originally designated. A board is created to manage and allocate these funds to insure the location of licensed dentists in rural areas of South Carolina and on the faculty of the College of Dental Medicine at MUSC. The board will be composed of the following: the Dean, or his designee, of the MUSC College of Dental Medicine; three members from the South Carolina Dental Education Foundation Board who represent rural areas; and the President, or his designee, of the South Carolina Dental Association. The Director of DHECs Office of Primary Care; the Director or his designee of the Department of Health and Human Services; and the Executive Director of the South Carolina Dental Association shall serve as ex officio members without vote. This board shall serve without compensation.

23.2. (MUSC: Rural Access Plan) The MUSC Hospital Authority, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services, shall study how to partner with existing rural hospitals and other entities to ensure that these regions maintain access to medical care. The MUSC Hospital Authority shall submit a report to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee detailing efforts to maintain medical care at rural hospitals no later than the end of the fiscal year.

23.3. (MUSC: Childrens Hospital Infrastructure) Of the funds appropriated for South Carolina Childrens Hospitals infrastructure, the Medical University of South Carolina shall establish the South Carolina Childrens Hospital Innovation Center to ensure that all children in South Carolina have access to high-quality medical services in a coordinated, cost-effective manner. Under the direction of the South Carolina Childrens Hospital Collaborative, the center annually shall establish childrens healthcare infrastructure priorities, determining allocations for those priorities, and then contracting with qualifying childrens hospitals to fund established priorities. Qualifying South Carolina childrens hospitals must be not-for-profit systems providing comprehensive pediatric inpatient and outpatient services, serve as the regional perinatal center for their region, serve as training sites for the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina medical schools, and participate in the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance pediatric telehealth workgroup. The center shall submit an annual report to the Governor, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year detailing established childrens healthcare infrastructure priorities and expenditures made to fund these priorities, specifying both innovation center funds and matching institutional funds.

23.4. (MUSC: Pediatric Transgender Clinic) No funds appropriated to MUSC pursuant to this appropriations act shall be used to fund or support any action furthering the gender transition of a minor child under the age of sixteen. This proviso shall not prohibit MUSC from providing medically necessary treatment that is unrelated to physical gender transition. Further, this proviso does not prohibit mental health counseling services.

23.5. (MUSC: Campus Renovation Funds) Funds remaining of the $6,500,000 appropriated in Act 95 of 2021, Section 1, Item (23) to the Medical University of South Carolina for Statewide Teaching Partnerships shall be redirected to be used for campus renovations and improvements.

23.6. (MUSC: Regional Medical Center Partnership) Of the funds appropriated in this act, the Medical University of South Carolina and the Medical University Hospital Authority shall partner with the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg for research and improved access to care in rural and underserved communities experiencing chronic disease. This partnership shall provide for teaching opportunities through resident and medical intern slots as available and cooperatively agreed upon by the two institutions, specifically focusing on, but not limited to, telehealth and victims services.