Bill > HB2701

This bill defines a new type of healthcare facility called a "neighborhood hospital" and exempts such facilities, along with ambulatory health care facilities and ambulatory surgical facilities, from requiring a certificate of need (CON). Specifically, a neighborhood hospital is defined as a facility that: occupies no more than 40,000 square feet, offers no more than 15 emergency room bays and 15 inpatient beds, and provides clinical laboratory services, diagnostic radiological services, medical treatment facilities, and other services typically associated with licensed hospitals. The bill amends existing West Virginia healthcare regulations to add this new category of facility and explicitly list neighborhood hospitals, ambulatory health care facilities, and ambulatory surgical facilities as types of healthcare facilities that can be constructed, developed, acquired, or established without going through the traditional certificate of need approval process. This change is intended to potentially make it easier and faster to establish smaller, more focused healthcare facilities that can provide targeted medical services to local communities, reducing bureaucratic barriers to healthcare facility development.

Health and Social Services

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