Senate Bill sb0246

    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 246

    By Senators Wise, King and Hill





    5-305-07                                                See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to certificate of need;

  3         amending s. 408.0361, F.S.; revising provisions

  4         relating to compliance with requirements

  5         imposed on providers of diagnostic cardiac

  6         catheterization services; providing an

  7         effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section

12  408.0361, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         408.0361  Cardiology services and burn unit

14  licensure.--

15         (3)  In establishing rules for adult interventional

16  cardiology services, the agency shall include provisions that

17  allow for:

18         (b)  For a hospital seeking a Level I program,

19  demonstration that:,

20         1.  For the most recent 12-month period as reported to

21  the agency, it has provided a minimum of 300 adult inpatient

22  and outpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterizations or, for the

23  most recent 12-month period, has discharged or transferred at

24  least 300 inpatients with the principal diagnosis of ischemic

25  heart disease and that it has a formalized, written transfer

26  agreement with a hospital that has a Level II program,

27  including written transport protocols to ensure safe and

28  efficient transfer of a patient within 60 minutes; or

29         2.  If the hospital seeking a Level I program will be a

30  newly licensed hospital established pursuant to a certificate

31  of need in a physical location previously licensed and

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 246
    5-305-07                                                See HB




 1  operated as a hospital, the former hospital provided a minimum

 2  of 300 adult inpatient and outpatient diagnostic cardiac

 3  catheterizations for the most recent 12-month period as

 4  reported to the agency and the newly licensed hospital has a

 5  formalized, written transfer agreement with a hospital that

 6  has a Level II program, including written transport protocols

 7  to ensure safe and efficient transfer of a patient within 60

 8  minutes. The newly licensed hospital must certify that it can

 9  provide a minimum of 300 adult inpatient and outpatient

10  diagnostic cardiac catheterizations by the end of its first

11  year of operation. If the newly licensed hospital fails to

12  provide 300 adult inpatient and outpatient diagnostic cardiac

13  catheterizations by the end of the first year of operation,

14  its license shall be modified to delete Level I services. In

15  order to ensure continuity of available services, the holder

16  of a certificate of need for a newly licensed hospital that

17  meets the requirements of this subparagraph may apply for

18  certification of Level I program status before taking

19  possession of the physical location of the former hospital.

20  The effective date of Level I program status shall be

21  concurrent with the effective date of the newly issued

22  hospital license.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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