Bill Text: NC S330 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Exempt Hospice Inpatient Facilities From CON
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S330 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S330-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 2
SENATE BILL 330
Corrected Copy 3/23/17
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Short Title: Exempt Hospice Inpatient Facilities From CON. |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Brown (Primary Sponsor); Cook, Foushee, Pate, Robinson, and Sanderson. |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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March 22, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT exempting hospice inpatient facilities from certificate of need review.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 131E‑176 reads as rewritten:
"§ 131E‑176. Definitions.
As used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the meanings specified:
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(2) "Bed capacity" means space used exclusively for inpatient care, including space designed or remodeled for licensed inpatient beds even though temporarily not used for such purposes. The number of beds to be counted in any patient room shall be the maximum number for which adequate square footage is provided as established by rules of the Department except that single beds in single rooms are counted even if the room contains inadequate square footage. The term "bed capacity" also refers to the number of dialysis stations in kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding dialysis units. The term "bed capacity" does not include space used as a hospice inpatient facility.
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(9b) "Health service
facility" means a hospital; long‑term care hospital; psychiatric
facility; rehabilitation facility; nursing home facility; adult care home;
kidney disease treatment center, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate
care facility for the mentally retarded; home health agency office; chemical
dependency treatment facility; diagnostic center; hospice office, hospice
inpatient facility,hospice office or hospice residential care
facility; and ambulatory surgical facility.
(9c) "Health service
facility bed" means a bed licensed for use in a health service facility in
the categories of (i) acute care beds; (ii) psychiatric beds; (iii)
rehabilitation beds; (iv) nursing home beds; (v) intermediate care beds for the
mentally retarded; (vi) chemical dependency treatment beds; (vii) hospice
inpatient facility beds; (viii)(vii) hospice residential care
facility beds; (ix)(viii) adult care home beds; and (x)(ix)
long‑term care hospital beds.
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(13b) "Hospice inpatient facility"
means a freestanding licensed hospice facility or a designated inpatient unit
in an existing health service facility which provides palliative and supportive
medical and other health services to meet the physical, psychological, social,
spiritual, and special needs of terminally ill patients and their families in
an inpatient setting. For purposes of this Article only, a hospital which
has a contractual agreement with a licensed hospice to provide inpatient
services to a hospice patient as defined in G.S. 131E‑201(4) and provides
those services in a licensed acute care bed is not a hospice inpatient facility
and is not subject to the requirements in G.S. 131E‑176(5)(ii) for
hospice inpatient beds.
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(16) "New institutional health services" means any of the following:
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n. The construction,
development or other establishment of a hospice, hospice inpatient facility,hospice
or hospice residential care facility;
o. The opening of an
additional office by an existing home health agency or hospicehospice,
not including a hospice inpatient facility, within its service area as
defined by rules adopted by the Department; or the opening of any office by an
existing home health agency or hospicehospice, not including a
hospice inpatient facility, outside its service area as defined by rules
adopted by the Department.
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SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. Any hospice inpatient facility which had operated under a certificate of need prior to the effective date of this act shall be exempt from certificate of need review after the effective date of this act.
