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Sec. 18.07.043. Standard of review for applications for certificates of need relating to nursing homes, nursing home beds, and residential psychiatric treatment centers.
(a)The department shall develop review standards for an application for a certificate of need, or for a modification of a certificate of need, issued under this chapter for a health care facility that is a nursing home or residential psychiatric treatment center, or that has nursing home beds.
(b)In developing the review standards under
(a)of this section, the department shall consider whether
(1)a public process and existing appropriate statewide, regional, and local plans were included in planning and designing the residential psychiatric treatment center, the additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home;
(2)the residential psychiatric treatment center, the additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home meets minimum required use rates for, as applicable, the residential psychiatric treatment center or new nursing beds, and the effect on use rates for existing nursing home beds;
(3)the residential psychiatric treatment center, the facility proposing additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home demonstrates consideration of the community, regional, and statewide needs for, as applicable, the residential psychiatric treatment center or the new nursing home beds;
(4)the residential psychiatric treatment center, the additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home meets the minimum number of, as applicable, residential psychiatric treatment beds or new nursing beds that should be required in a facility to ensure efficiency and economies of scale;
(5)the residential psychiatric treatment center, the facility proposing additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home demonstrates the proposed service will provide a quality of care equivalent to existing community, regional, or statewide services;
(6)the residential psychiatric treatment center, the facility proposing additional nursing home beds, or the nursing home demonstrates financial feasibility, including long-term viability, and what the financial effect will be on consumers and the state; and
(7)the sponsor has demonstrated cost effectiveness through considering the availability of appropriate, less costly alternatives of providing the services planned.
(c)The department shall grant a sponsor a certificate of need or modify a certificate of need that authorizes a residential psychiatric treatment center or nursing home beds, or that is for a health care facility that is a nursing home, if the department finds that the sponsor meets the standards established in or under this chapter.
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