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MI HB6380
Bill
Status
9/20/2022
Primary Sponsor
Andrew Fink
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AI Summary
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Adds definitions for "rural emergency hospital" and "rural emergency hospital services" to the Public Health Code.
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Requires hospital owners, operators, and governing bodies to notify the Department of Health and Human Services if they apply for designation as a rural emergency hospital.
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Allows rural emergency hospitals located in nonurbanized areas to temporarily delicense 100% of their licensed beds for up to 5 years, compared to the 50% limit for other hospitals.
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Permits hospitals to extend temporary delicensure for an additional 5 years if they met requirements during the initial delicensure period, unless the department determines demonstrated need exists for the beds in the hospital group.
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Updates statutory language throughout by replacing "assure" with "ensure," "shall" with "must," and modernizing census date references from 1970-1980 to 2010-2020.
Legislative Description
Health facilities: hospitals; temporary delicensure of beds for hospitals designated as rural emergency hospitals; provide for. Amends secs. 21501, 21513 & 21551 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.21501 et seq.).
State agencies (existing): licensing and regulatory affairs
Last Action
Referred To Second Reading
11/10/2022