SHP Criteria Change KHA Other Legislation Comment Acute Bed Criteria: An exception to review criteria for acute care beds to allow a Level I or II trauma X facility to add beds notwithstanding the need criteria. NICU: (1) Replacing very specific detail from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists X Guidelines for Perinatal Care with a reference to the criteria within that publication. (2) Distinguishing Level II beds from Advanced Level II beds X (3) Allowing a hospital already providing Level II beds to add a limited number of beds if the hospital is X experiencing a high number of Level II births but does not have excess acute beds to convert Psychiatric: Criteria to allow a psych hospital to redistribute beds by license classification so long as the X redistribution does not increase the overall total number of licensed beds in the facility PRTF Level II: Adding exception to criteria to allow an existing Psych hospital to establish PRTF Level II on X the hospital’s campus or through the use of existing space Post Acute Transitional Care Project: Deleted X NF Beds: Adding review criteria to all acute care hospitals to establish nursing facility beds in the hospital X when the nursing facility utilization in the ADD is at least 70%, the annual average length of stay for the proposed beds will not exceed 45 days. At least 50% of the patients must have one of five top ten hospital readmissions diagnoses. 75% of the patients must return home or to a community based setting. Specialized Long Term Care: adding new criteria to recognize specialized care to be provided by acute X and nursing facilities restricted to Specialized Long Term Care notwithstanding long term care criteria. Home Health: (1) Deleting criteria for an existing HH agency to expand to surrounding counties. X (2) Expanding criteria for hospitals seeking to establish limited HH agencies if they demonstrate barriers X to discharge planning to nursing homes. Cardiac Cath: Allow hospitals within 50 miles of an academic teaching facility and with a relationship X with that facility to establish a comprehensive cardiac cath program MRI: Reduce the criteria for MRI but require applicants to meet criteria consistent with the American X X College of Radiology accreditation requirements and be accredited within 12 months. Private Duty Nursing: Deleted Criteria X Filed July 13, 2018 KHA CON Committee Call August 13, 2:30 PM (ET) Hearing August 27 Written Comments due August 31
SHP Criteria Change KHA Comment Other Legislation Acute Bed Criteria: An exception to review criteria for acute care beds to allow a Level I or II trauma facility to add beds notwithstanding the need criteria. X NICU: (1) Replacing very specific detail from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists Guidelines for Perinatal Care with a reference to the criteria within that publication. (2) Distinguishing Level II beds from Advanced Level II beds (3) Allowing a hospital already providing Level II beds to add a limited number of beds if the hospital is experiencing a high number of Level II births but does not have excess acute beds to convert X X X Psychiatric: Criteria to allow a psych hospital to redistribute beds by license classification so long as the redistribution does not increase the overall total number of licensed beds in the facility X PRTF Level II: Adding exception to criteria to allow an existing Psych hospital to establish PRTF Level II on the hospital’s campus or through the use of existing space X Post Acute Transitional Care Project: Deleted X NF Beds: Adding review criteria to all acute care hospitals to establish nursing facility beds in the hospital when the nursing facility utilization in the ADD is at least 70%, the annual average length of stay for the proposed beds will not exceed 45 days. At least 50% of the patients must have one of five top ten hospital readmissions diagnoses. 75% of the patients must return home or to a community based setting. X Specialized Long Term Care: adding new criteria to recognize specialized care to be provided by acute and nursing facilities restricted to Specialized Long Term Care notwithstanding long term care criteria. X Home Health: (1) Deleting criteria for an existing HH agency to expand to surrounding counties. (2) Expanding criteria for hospitals seeking to establish limited HH agencies if they demonstrate barriers to discharge planning to nursing homes. X X Cardiac Cath: Allow hospitals within 50 miles of an academic teaching facility and with a relationship with that facility to establish a comprehensive cardiac cath program X MRI: Reduce the criteria for MRI but require applicants to meet criteria consistent with the American College of Radiology accreditation requirements and be accredited within 12 months. X X Private Duty Nursing: Deleted Criteria X Filed July 13, 2018 KHA CON Committee Call August 13, 2:30 PM (ET) Hearing August 27 Written Comments due August 31