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Alaska Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2017) |
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Title 7. Health and Social Services. |
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Part 7.1. Administration. |
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Chapter 7.12. Facilities and Local Units. |
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Article 7.12.3. General Acute Care, Rural Primary Care, Long-term Acute Care, and Critical Access Hospitals. |
Section 7.12.102. Determination of rural primary care hospital.
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(a) The department will consider a facility as a rural primary care hospital if the department finds that the facility (1) provides inpatient hospitalization for medical care of acute illness or injury; (2) has no more than 25 acute care beds; (3) is located in a rural area of no more than 15,000 residents, based on the most recent calculations of the United States Bureau of Census; and (4) does not provide all of the following services: (A) surgical service; (B) anesthesia service; (C) perinatal care; (D) one or more of the following therapies: (i) speech therapy; (ii) occupational therapy; (iii) physical therapy. (b) If the facility provides all of the services described in 7 AAC 12.105(a), the department will consider the facility as a general acute care hospital even though it otherwise might qualify as a rural primary care hospital under this section.
Authorities
47.32.010;47.32.030