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. Closed sessions of meetings may be conducted to consider,
discuss, and act upon matters relating to any of the following:
(a) Collective bargaining or contract negotiations with
represented and unrepresented employees, including discussion of the
corporation's available funds and funding priorities, but only
insofar as the discussion relates to the corporation's ability to
conclude the collective bargaining agreement or contract under
discussion. For the purposes of this subdivision, "employee" shall
include an officer, an independent contractor who functions as an
officer or an employee, a physician and surgeon or other professional
with medical staff privileges at a health facility or clinic
operated by the corporation, or other person exercising professional
responsibilities as authorized by the corporation at a health
facility or clinic operated by the corporation, but shall not include
other independent contractors.
(b) The purchase or sale of securities or other investments,
including investments of the corporation in endowment and pension
funds.
(c) Gifts, devises, bequests, and grants.
(d) Reports of a hospital or medical audit committee or a quality
assurance committee or similar reports by staff of the corporation,
accreditation reports, audits, audit compliance, licensure
compliance, insurance and self-insurance coverage, health care peer
review reports, and quality assessments, including, but not limited
to, a review of the credentials of, or the quality of care rendered
by, health care providers in the facilities of the corporation, or
hearings regarding the privileges of medical staff and allied health
professionals.
(e) National security.
(f) Acquisition, disposition, or lease of property. However,
notwithstanding any other provision of this article, no less than 10
days prior to any action on any transaction involving the
acquisition, disposition, or lease of real property having a fair
market value of five million dollars ($5,000,000) or more or personal
property having a fair market value of ten million dollars
($10,000,000) or more that is owned by a state agency, including a
constitutional corporation, the corporation shall hold an open
session at which the public shall have an opportunity to comment on
the proposed transaction.
(g) Pending litigation, including any adjudicatory proceeding
before a court, administrative body, hearing officer, arbitrator,
mediator, or other formal dispute resolution mechanism. For the
purposes of this subdivision "pending" means that, based on advice of
the corporation's legal counsel, there are facts and circumstances
within the contemplation of the corporation that may result or has
resulted in proceedings against or by the corporation, whether or not
known to a potential plaintiff or plaintiffs or to a potential
defendant or defendants.
(h) Evaluation, appointment, employment, performance,
compensation, or dismissal of officers or employees of the
corporation or its medical or professional staff, including internal
adjudicatory proceedings, complaints, charges, investigations, and
hearings. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "employee"
shall include an officer, an independent contractor who functions as
an officer or performs functions traditionally performed by an
employee, a physician and surgeon or other professional with medical
staff privileges at a health facility or clinic operated by the
corporation, or other person exercising professional responsibilities
as authorized by the corporation at a health facility or clinic
operated by the corporation, but shall not include any member of the
board of directors, as such, or other independent contractors. The
term "employee" shall also include a chief executive officer or other
employee of the corporation who is an ex-officio member of the board
of directors.
(i) Consideration of the appointment or reappointment of directors
to the board of the corporation.
(j) The terms and conditions of contracts for the provision of
health care services, including compliance with regulatory conditions
thereof, with governmental and nongovernmental insurers, health care
providers, health plans, third-party administrators, management
services organizations, self-insured employers, medical groups, and
payers or any other portion of contract negotiations, impressions,
opinions, recommendations, meeting minutes, research, work product,
theories or strategy, or instructions or advice to employees.
(k) Charges or complaints from a member enrolled in a health plan
or any affiliated provider of health care services.
( l) Any trade secret as defined in subdivision (d) of Section
3426.1 of the Civil Code.
(m) Any item that cannot be discussed in open session without
revealing information prohibited or exempted from public disclosure
by any provision of state or federal law applicable to any
governmental hospital, or any state or federal statute applicable to
a nongovernmental hospital, including, but not limited to, provisions
of the Evidence Code relating to privilege. Prior to holding any
closed session under this subdivision, the provision of state or
federal law shall be publicly identified, where applicable.