Specialty hospitals.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0544

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0206

Specialty hospitals.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Walsh, Iekel and Martin and Senator(s) Barrasso, Hastert and Perkins

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to licensing and operation of health care facilities; providing requirements for specialty hospitals licensure; providing a definition; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 35
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2
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913 is created to read:

35
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2
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913.

Specialty hospitals; requirements for licensure.

(a)

To be licensed under this chapter a specialty hospital shall:

(i)

Provide a significant level of inpatient care as defined by the department;

(ii)

Comply with all standards, rules and regulations adopted by the department for hospitals;

(iii)

Provide appropriate discharge planning;

(iv)

Require a referring physician to disclose if the specialty hospital does not provide intensive care services and notify the patient that if intensive care services are required, the patient will be transferred to another hospital; and

(v)

Provide continuous emergency services that comply with requirements for emergency facilities as established by the department.

Section 2.

W.S. 35
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2
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901(a) by creating a new paragraph (xxiv) and
by amending and
renumbering (xxiv) as (xxv) is amended to read:

35
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2
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901.

Definitions; applicability of provisions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xxiv)

"Specialty hospital" means a licensed hospital, organized or incorporated as an entity which permits stays of twenty-four (24) hours or more and is primarily or exclusively engaged in the care and treatment of one (1) or more of the following:

(A)

Patients with a cardiac condition;

(B)

Patients with an orthopedic condition;

(C)

Patients receiving a surgical procedure; and

(D)

Any other specialized category of services as designated by the department, but shall not include:

(I)

Psychiatric hospitals;

(II)

Rehabilitation hospitals;

(III)

Children's hospitals;

(IV)

Long-term care hospitals; and

(V)

Cancer treatment hospitals.

(xxiv)
(
xv)

"This act" means W.S. 35
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2
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901 through
35
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2
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912
35
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2
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913
.

Section 3.

This act is effective July 1, 2007.

(END)

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