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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 7.12.104. Determination of critical access hospital.
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(a) The department will consider a facility as a critical access hospital if the department finds that the facility (1) provides inpatient short-term hospitalization for medical care of acute illness or injury; (2) has no more than 25 inpatient 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) meets the applicable requirements of 7 AAC 12.100 - 7 AAC 12.190 and 7 AAC 12.600 - 7 AAC 12.990. (b) If a facility provides all of the services described in 7 AAC 12.105(a), the facility may elect to be licensed as either a general acute care hospital or a critical access hospital. (c) If a facility qualifies both as a rural primary care hospital under 7 AAC 12.102 and as a critical access hospital under this section, the facility may elect to be licensed as either a rural primary care hospital or a critical access hospital.
Authorities
47.32.010;47.32.030