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 12.104 - Determination of critical access hospital
Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 12.104
Current through November 28, 2024
(a) The department will consider a facility as a critical access hospital if the department finds that the facility
(1) provides inpatient
short-term hospitalization for medical care of acute illness or
injury;
(2) has no more than 25
inpatient 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) meets the applicable requirements of
7
AAC 12.100 -
7
AAC 12.190 and
7
AAC 12.600 -
7
AAC 12.990.
(b) If a facility provides all of the services described in 7 AAC 12.105(a), the facility may elect to be licensed as either a general acute care hospital or a critical access hospital.
(c) If a facility qualifies both as a rural primary care hospital under 7 AAC 12.102 and as a critical access hospital under this section, the facility may elect to be licensed as either a rural primary care hospital or a critical access hospital.
Authority:AS 47.32.010
AS 47.32.030
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