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KS SB82
Bill
Status
2/19/2025
Primary Sponsor
Public Health and Welfare
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AI Summary
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Secretary for aging and disability services must grant physical environment waivers to rural emergency hospitals to convert up to 10 swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds
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Eligible facilities must be currently licensed as a rural emergency hospital and have been licensed as a hospital immediately prior to that designation
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Applicants must have provided skilled nursing facility services or critical access hospital swing bed services for at least one year without any finding of immediate jeopardy
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Act takes effect upon publication in the Kansas Register
Legislative Description
Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.
Last Action
House Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 74 Nay: 48
4/11/2025