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NH committee hears request to keep flexible bed authorization for Cedar Crest pediatric facility
Summary
Lawmakers heard testimony on Senate Bill 18, which would permit the Health and Human Services commissioner to authorize additional pediatric intermediate-care beds at Cedar Crest in Keene and to seek fiscal-committee approval for more than the two-bed temporary expansion.
Representative Lucy Weber, introducing Senate Bill 18 to the House Committee on Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs, said the measure would permit the commissioner of Health and Human Services to authorize additional beds for a pediatric intermediate care facility under certain circumstances.
Jay Hasten, president and CEO of the Cedar Crest Center for Children with Disabilities, told the committee Cedar Crest is the only facility in the state that provides this combination of intensive medical care and approved-school services for children. "We provide complex care and education to the state's most medically and developmentally…
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