Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 05 - Acute Care Facilities and Services Overview
Section 15-8-90-05-504 - Certificate of Need Criteria and Standards for Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals/Beds
Section 15-8-90-05-504.01 - Policy Statement Regarding Certificate of Need Applications for Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals and Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Beds
Current through September 24, 2024
1. Restorative Care Admissions: Restorative care admissions shall be identified as patients with one or more of the following conditions or disabilities:
2. Bed Licensure: All beds designated as long-term care hospital beds shall be licensed as general acute care.
3. Average Length of Stay: Patients' average length of stay in a long-term care hospital must be twenty-five (25) calendar days or more.
4. Size of Facility: Establishment of a long-term care hospital shall not be for less than twenty (20) beds.
5. Long-Term Medical Care: A long-term acute care hospital shall provide chronic or long-term medical care to patients who do not require more than three (3) hours of rehabilitation or comprehensive rehabilitation per day.
6. Transfer Agreement: A long-term acute care hospital shall have a transfer agreement with an acute care medical center and a comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility.
7. Addition or Conversion of Beds: Effective July 1, 1994, no health care facility shall be authorized to add any beds or convert any beds to another category of beds without a CON under the authority of Section 41-7-191(1)(c), unless there is a projected need for such beds in the planning district in which the facility is located.