Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 1 - Administration
Chapter 12 - Facilities and Local Units
Article 3 - General Acute Care, Rural Primary Care, Long-term Acute Care, and Critical Access Hospitals
7 AAC 12.102 - Determination of rural primary care hospital
Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 12.102
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) The department will consider a facility as a rural primary care hospital if the department finds that the facility
(1) provides
inpatient hospitalization for medical care of acute illness or
injury;
(2) has no more than 25
acute care beds;
(3) is located in
a rural area of no more than 15,000 residents, based on the most recent
calculations of the United States Bureau of Census; and
(4) does not provide all of the following
services:
(A) surgical service;
(B) anesthesia service;
(C) perinatal care;
(D) one or more of the following therapies:
(i) speech therapy;
(ii) occupational therapy;
(iii) physical therapy.
(b) If the facility provides all of the services described in 7 AAC 12.105(a), the department will consider the facility as a general acute care hospital even though it otherwise might qualify as a rural primary care hospital under this section.
Authority:AS 47.32.010
AS 47.32.030
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