65-452. Same; exceptions.
65-452
65-452. Same; exceptions.This act shall not apply to the following:
(a) The total relocation of a hospital's licensed beds from one physical facilityor site within the community to another physical facility or site withinthe same community if the relocating hospital is the only hospital in the community;
(b) consolidation of two or more hospitals located within the samecommunity, if the maximum licensed bed capacity after consolidation is set at alevel which would accommodate a 70% rate of occupancy based on the aggregateaverage daily census of the consolidating hospitals during the previousfiscal year of each hospital;
(c) the relocation or redistribution of hospital beds within a hospitalbuilding or identifiable complex of buildings on the same site if therelocation or redistribution does not result in an increase in the overalllicensed bed capacity at that site;
(d) a project for which a hospital holds a valid certificate of needunder K.S.A. 65-4801 et seq., and amendments thereto, and which project is notyet completed; or
(e) a hospital which is owned or operated by the federal or state government.
History: L. 1985, ch. 204, § 3; July 1.