15 Miss. Code. R. 8-90-02-206.1 - Policy Statement Regarding Certificate of Need Applications for the Offering of Nursing Home Care Services for Intellectually Disabled and Other Developmentally Disabled Individuals
1.
Legislation
a. The
1990 Mississippi Legislature imposed a permanent moratorium which prohibits the
MSDH from granting approval for or issuing a CON to any person proposing the
new construction, addition to, or expansion of an intermediate care facility
for the intellectually disabled (ICF/ID).
b. Effective July 1, 1990, any health care
facility defined as a psychiatric hospital, skilled nursing facility,
intermediate care facility, intermediate care facility for the intellectually
disabled, or psychiatric residential treatment facility which is owned by the
State of Mississippi and under the direction and control of the Mississippi
Department of Mental Health is exempted from the requirement of the issuance of
a CON under Section
41-7-171 et seq., for projects
which involve new construction, renovation, expansion, addition of new beds, or
conversion of beds from one category to another in any such defined health care
facility.
c. Effective April 12,
2002, no health care facility shall be authorized to add any beds or convert
any beds to another category of beds without a CON.
d. Effective March 4, 2003, if a health care
facility has voluntarily delicensed some of its existing bed complement, it may
later relicense some or all of its delicensed beds without the necessity of
having to acquire a CON. The facility must submit a letter requesting that the
beds be placed in abeyance. MSDH shall maintain a record of the delicensing
health care facility and its voluntarily delicensed beds and continue counting
those beds as part of the state's total bed count for health care planning
purposes.
2.
ID/DP Long-Term Care Planning Districts (ID/DD LTCPD):
The need for additional ID/DD nursing home care beds shall be based on the
ID/DD LTCPDs as outlined on Map 2-2.
3.
Bed Need: The
need for ID/DD nursing home care beds is established at one bed per 1,000
population less than 65 years of age.
4.
Population
Projections: MSDH shall use population projections as presented in
Table 2-3 when calculating bed need.
5.
Bed Limit: No
ID/DD LTCPD shall be approved for more than its proportioned share of needed
ID/DD nursing home care beds. No application shall be approved which would
over-bed the state as a whole.
6.
Bed Inventory: MSDH shall review the need for
additional ID/DD nursing home care beds utilizing the most recent information
available regarding the inventory of such beds.
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