15 Miss. Code. R. 8-90-05-502.01 - Policy Statement Regarding Certificate of Need Applications for General Acute Care Hospitals and General Acute Care Beds
1.
Need
in Counties Without a Hospital: Ten counties in Mississippi do not
have a hospital: Amite, Benton, Carroll, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba,
Prentiss Quitman, Smith and Tunica. Most of these counties do not have a
sufficient population base to indicate a potential need for the establishment
of a hospital, and all appear to receive sufficient inpatient acute care
services from hospitals in adjoining counties.
2.
Expedited Review:
MSDH may consider an expedited review for CON applications that address only
license code deficiencies, project cost overruns, and relocation of facilities
or services.
3.
Capital
Expenditure: For the purposes of CON review, transactions which
are separated in time but planned to be undertaken within twelve (12) months of
each other and which are components of an overall long-range plan to meet
patient care objectives shall be reviewed in their entirety without regard to
their timing. For the purposes of this policy, the governing board of the
facility must have duly adopted the long-range plan at least twelve (12) months
prior to the submission of the CON application.
4.
Addition or Conversion of
Beds: No health care facility shall be authorized to add any beds
or convert any beds to another category of beds without a CON.
5.
Beds in Abeyance:
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. 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.
6.
Break in Services: A health care facility that has
ceased to operate for a period of sixty (60) months or more shall require a CON
prior to reopening.
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