65-452. Same; exceptions.

65-452

Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH
Article 4.--HOSPITALS AND OTHER FACILITIES

      65-452.   Same; exceptions.This act shall not apply to the following:

      (a)   The total relocation of a hospital's licensed beds from one physical facilityor site within the community to another physical facility or site withinthe same community if the relocating hospital is the only hospital in the community;

      (b)   consolidation of two or more hospitals located within the samecommunity, if the maximum licensed bed capacity after consolidation is set at alevel which would accommodate a 70% rate of occupancy based on the aggregateaverage daily census of the consolidating hospitals during the previousfiscal year of each hospital;

      (c)   the relocation or redistribution of hospital beds within a hospitalbuilding or identifiable complex of buildings on the same site if therelocation or redistribution does not result in an increase in the overalllicensed bed capacity at that site;

      (d)   a project for which a hospital holds a valid certificate of needunder K.S.A. 65-4801 et seq., and amendments thereto, and which project is notyet completed; or

      (e)   a hospital which is owned or operated by the federal or state government.

      History:   L. 1985, ch. 204, § 3; July 1.