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Panel hears bill to allow up to 10 swing beds at rural emergency hospitals to convert to skilled-nursing beds
Summary
Senators on the Kansas Senate Public Health Committee heard testimony Sept. 20 on Senate Bill 82, which would require KDADS to grant a physical‑environment waiver allowing qualifying rural emergency hospitals to convert up to 10 swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds.
Senators on the Kansas Senate Public Health Committee heard testimony Sept. 20 on Senate Bill 82, a one‑page bill that would require the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) to grant a physical‑environment waiver allowing a qualifying rural emergency hospital to convert up to 10 existing swing beds into skilled nursing facility beds.
The bill would require KDADS to grant the waiver if the facility: is currently licensed as a rural emergency hospital; was licensed as a hospital immediately prior to that designation; and, while licensed as a hospital, provided skilled‑nursing or critical access hospital swing‑bed services for at least one year without a finding of immediate jeopardy. The bill as…
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