Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 06 - Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation Services
Section 15-8-90-06-604 - Certificate of Need Criteria and Standards for Comprehensive Medical Residential Medical Rehabilitation Beds/Services for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (CRMR-TBI)
Section 15-8-90-06-604.01 - Policy Statement Regarding Certificate of Need Applications for Comprehensive Residential Medical Rehabilitation Beds/Services for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 15-8-90-06-604.01

Current through September 24, 2024

1. Definitions:

(a) Comprehensive Residential Medical Rehabilitation Services (CRMR) for Patients with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) are defined as a place which is devoted to the provision of residential treatment and rehabilitative care in a transitional living program or a lifelong living program for periods of twenty-four (24) hours or longer for persons who have traumatic brain injury.

(b) A transitional living program is treatment and rehabilitative care delivered to traumatic brain injury patients who require education and training for independent living with a focus on compensation for skills which cannot be restored; such care prepares clients for maximum independence, teaches necessary skills for community interaction, works with clients pre-vocational and vocational training and stresses cognitive, speech, and behavioral therapies structured to the individual needs of patients.

(c) Lifelong living program is treatment and rehabilitative care to traumatic brain injury patients who have been discharged from advanced treatment and rehabilitation facilities, but who cannot live at home independently, and who require on-going lifetime support and rehabilitation.

(d) A TBI is a traumatic harm to the brain and its related parts resulting in organic damage thereto that may cause physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and/or vocational changes in a person.

2. Planning Areas: The state as a whole shall serve as a single planning area for determining the need of CRMR beds/services for patients with a TBI.

3. Any application for a CRMR-TBI shall document the need for such a program in the state. Any application for an expansion through the addition of beds at a CRMR-TBI shall document an occupancy rate in excess of seventy percent (70%) for the most recent two (2) years.

4. Present Utilization of Rehabilitation Services: When reviewing CON applications for CRMR-TBI, MSDH shall consider the utilization of existing services and the presence of valid CONs for services.

5. Minimum Sized Facilities/Units: CRMR-TBI facilities shall contain not less than six (6) beds and no more than thirty (30) beds. MSDH shall give a preference for CRMR-TBI facilities that are not located within a forty-five (45) mile radius of any other CRMR-TBI facility.

6. Children's Beds/Services: Should a CON applicant intend to serve children, the application shall include a statement to that effect.

7. Other Requirements: Applicants proposing to provide CRMR-TBI beds/services shall meet all requirements set forth in CMS regulations as applicable, except where additional or different requirements, as stated in the State Health Plan or in the licensure regulations, are required.

8. 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.

9. Effective March 4, 2003, if a health care facility has voluntarily delicensed some of its existing bed complement, it may later relicense some or all of its delicensed beds without the necessity of having to acquire a CON. MSDH shall maintain a record of the delicensing health care facility and its voluntarily delicensed beds and continue counting those beds as part of the state's total bed count for health care planning purposes.

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