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2025 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 65 - Public Health
Article 4 - Hospitals And Other Facilities
65-490 Rural emergency hospitals; granting of physical environment waivers; conditions; transition to skilled nursing facility beds.

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KS Stat § 65-490 (2025)
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65-490. Rural emergency hospitals; granting of physical environment waivers; conditions; transition to skilled nursing facility beds.
(a) The secretary for aging and disability services shall, upon application of a rural emergency hospital, grant a physical environment waiver for existing nursing facilities to such rural emergency hospital to transition not more than 10 swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds, if such rural emergency hospital:

(1) Is currently licensed as a rural emergency hospital pursuant to the rural emergency hospital act;

(2) was licensed as a hospital immediately prior to the rural emergency hospital's licensure as a rural emergency hospital; and

(3) during such rural emergency hospital's licensure as a hospital, such rural emergency hospital provided skilled nursing facility services or critical access hospital swing bed services to patients for at least 12 months without a finding of immediate jeopardy.

(b) As used in this section:

(1) "Critical access hospital" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-468, and amendments thereto.

(2) "Hospital" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto.

(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the rural emergency hospital act.

History: L. 2025, ch. 90, ยง 1; July 1.

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