2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5829.03 — Certificate of need; activities requiring.

Section 71-5829.03
Certificate of need; activities requiring.

No person, including persons acting for or on behalf of a health care facility, shall engage in any of the following activities without having first applied for and received the necessary certificate of need:

(1) The initial establishment of long-term care beds or rehabilitation beds except as permitted under subdivision (5) of this section;

(2) An increase in the long-term care beds or rehabilitation beds of a health care facility by more than ten beds or more than ten percent of the total bed capacity, whichever is less, over a two-year period;

(3) A relocation of long-term care beds from a health care facility at one physical facility or contiguous site to another noncontiguous site within the same health planning region if the relocation will cause an aggregate increase in long-term care beds between those locations of more than ten beds or more than ten percent of the total bed capacity, whichever is less, over a two-year period;

(4) Any relocation of long-term care beds from a health care facility located in one health planning region to a health care facility in a different health planning region;

(5) Any conversion by a hospital of any type of hospital beds to long-term care beds or rehabilitation beds if the total bed capacity of the hospital will have changed by more than ten beds or more than ten percent of the total bed capacity, whichever is less, over a two-year period;

(6) Any change by a residential care facility to convert residential care beds to long-term care beds; or

(7) Any change by a domiciliary facility to convert domiciliary beds to long-term care beds.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 798, § 22

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska