GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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SENATE BILL 950
Capital Expenditures and Improvements Committee Substitute Adopted 5/11/93

Short Title:  CON Hospice Change.	(Public)
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Sponsors:
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Referred to:  Children and Human Resources.
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April 22, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT ALL NEW HOSPICES RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF NEED.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 131E-176(9b) reads as rewritten:
"(9b)	'Health service facility' means a hospital; psychiatric facility; rehabilitation facility; long term care facility; kidney disease treatment center, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded; home health agency office; chemical dependency treatment facility; hospice home care office, hospice inpatient unit, hospice residential care facility; and ambulatory surgical facility."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 131E-176(9c) reads as rewritten:
"(9c)	'Health service facility bed' means a bed licensed for use in a health service facility in the categories of (i) acute care beds; (ii) psychiatric beds; (iii) rehabilitation beds; (iv) nursing care beds; (v) intermediate care beds for the mentally retarded; (vi) chemical dependency treatment beds; and (vii) hospice inpatient and residential care beds."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 131E-176 is amended by inserting a new subdivision to read:
"(13b)	'Hospice services' means hospice home care, hospice inpatient care, and hospice residential care, as licensed pursuant to Article 10 of Chapter 131E of the General Statutes."
Sec. 4.  G.S. 131E-176(16)d. reads as rewritten:
"d.	The offering of hospice services, dialysis services, or home health services by or on behalf of a health service facility if those services were not offered within the previous 12 months by or on behalf of the facility;".
Sec. 5.  G.S. 131-176(16)n. reads as rewritten:
"n.	The construction, development or other establishment of a hospice;".
Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.