HF 2812 Summary

• Amends Minnesota Statutes section 144.551 to add exceptions to the moratorium on hospital construction and bed capacity increases, specifically authorizing certain critical access hospitals to add beds.

• Allows critical access hospitals that delicensed beds since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act to relicense those beds, provided they do not exceed the maximum bed count permitted under federal law.

• Adds clause (31) creating a new exception for critical access hospitals with fewer than 25 licensed beds and an attached nursing home to add licensed beds up to a maximum of 25 beds total, without requiring public interest review.

• Maintains existing exceptions for national referral centers, pediatric hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and safety-net trauma centers with specific bed caps and conditions.