Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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An act to amend section 41-7-191, mississippi code of 1972, to provide that for any health care facility that relinquished its certificate of need or license for inpatient psychiatric services because the facility converted from an acute care hospital or critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital in accordance with certain federal regulations, the state department of health may license the psychiatric inpatient beds as a separate entity from the rural emergency hospital so long as the new applicant is associated with the rural emergency hospital; To require the department of health to issue a separate certificate of need to the new entity; To provide that the rural emergency hospital and the psychiatric facility must maintain separation of facilities, licensure, operations, finances and governance; And for related purposes.
