Mississippi legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Mississippi HB1152: CON; certain health care facilities that relinquished CON for inpatient psych services may have those beds licensed as separate
Status: Failed, February 4, 2025
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.
What the bill says
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…
From the introduced text:
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. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI: SECTION 1. Section 41-7-191, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows: 41-7-191. (1) No person shall engage in any of the following activities without obtaining the required certificate of need: (a) The construction, development or other establishment of a new health care facility, which establishment shall include the reopening of a health care facility that has ceased to operate for a period of sixty (60) months or more; (b) The relocation of a health care facility or portion thereof, …