Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 246
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11 The Committee on Health Regulation (Fasano) recommended the
12 following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section
19 408.0361, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 408.0361 Cardiology services and burn unit
21 licensure.--
22 (3) In establishing rules for adult interventional
23 cardiology services, the agency shall include provisions that
24 allow for:
25 (c)1. For a hospital seeking a Level II program,
26 demonstration that, for the most recent 12-month period as
27 reported to the agency, it has performed a minimum of 1,100
28 adult inpatient and outpatient cardiac catheterizations, of
29 which at least 400 must be therapeutic catheterizations, or,
30 for the most recent 12-month period, has discharged at least
31 800 patients having with the principal diagnosis of ischemic
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1 heart disease.
2 2. Alternatively, a hospital may be licensed as a
3 Level II program if:
4 a. The hospital is a newly licensed hospital that has
5 a certificate of need and is physically located in a building
6 that was previously licensed and operated as a hospital under
7 a Level II program license;
8 b. The hospital certifies that it presently meets and
9 will continuously maintain the minimum licensure requirements
10 that may be adopted by the agency governing adult open-heart
11 programs, including the most current guidelines of the
12 American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association
13 Guidelines for adult open-heart programs;
14 c. The hospital certifies that it possesses and will
15 maintain sufficient appropriate equipment and health care
16 personnel to ensure quality and safety for its patients;
17 d. The hospital certifies that it will maintain
18 appropriate times of operation and protocols to ensure
19 availability and appropriate referrals in the event of
20 emergency;
21 e. The hospital certifies that at least 300 inpatients
22 having the principal diagnosis of ischemic heart disease were
23 discharged from the former hospital for the most recent
24 12-month period as reported to the agency;
25 f. The former hospital was a general acute care
26 hospital that was in operation for 3 years or more; and
27 g. The former hospital performed at least 300 combined
28 inpatient and outpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterization
29 procedures during the most recent 12-month period, as reported
30 to the agency.
31 3. If the hospital fails to meet the criteria for a
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1 Level II open-heart program or fails to conduct at least 300
2 surgeries each year by the end of its 3rd year of operation,
3 the hospital must show cause why its license as a Level II
4 program should not be revoked.
5 4. In order to ensure continuity of available
6 services, the holder of a certificate of need for a newly
7 licensed hospital that meets the requirements of this
8 paragraph may apply for certification as a Level II program
9 before taking possession of the physical location of the
10 former hospital. The effective date of certification of a
11 Level II program is the same as the date the hospital license
12 is issued.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
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17 And the title is amended as follows:
18 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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21 A bill to be entitled
22 An act relating to certificates of need;
23 amending s. 408.0361, F.S.; revising provisions
24 relating to compliance with certain criteria
25 imposed on any hospital seeking to provide
26 diagnostic cardiac catheterization Level II
27 services; providing an effective date.
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