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HB 1747 Certificate of public need; authorization of certain amendment.

Introduced by: Terrie L. Suit | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Certificate of public need; authorization of certain amendment. Authorizes, notwithstanding the provisions of the moratorium on nursing home bed construction/additions that was in effect until July 1, 1996, or the provisions of a previous authorization for amendments to the relevant certificate, the Commissioner of Health to accept and approve a request to amend the conditions of a certificate of public need issued as an exception to the former restriction on filing applications for nursing home bed projects. Many of the facilities provided exceptions to the moratorium, including the one that is the subject of this bill, and had strict conditions imposed by the law concerning acceptance of private pay patients directly into their nursing homes. This bill will authorize the facility to ask the Commissioner of Health for an amendment to its previous certificate of public need to continue, for 3 years from the issuance of an occupancy permit for the third-midrise residential unit building associated with such facility or until June 30, 2006, whichever occurs first, to admit persons, other than residents of the cooperative units, to its nursing facility beds. The facility must be (i) operated by an association described in § 55-458 (an association for the management of real estate cooperatives); (ii) created in connection with a real estate cooperative; and (iii) providing its residents a level of nursing services consistent with the definition of continuing care in Chapter 49 (§ 38.2-4900 et seq.) of Title 38.2 (a continuing care facility). This bill applies to 1 facility to which the original certificate of public need was issued prior to October 3, 1995.


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