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HARRY HUGHES, Governor 3077
(a) The Commission shall develop and adopt an
institution-specific [plan] COMPONENT OF THE STATE HEALTH
PLAN to guide possible capacity [reduction] ADJUSTMENT.
(b) The institution-specific [plan] COMPONENT shall
address:
(1) Accurate bed count data for licensed beds and
staffed and operated beds;
(2) Cost data associated with all hospital beds and
associated services on a hospital specific basis;
(3) Migration patterns and current and future
projected population data;
(4) Accessibility and availability of beds;
(5) Quality of care;
(6) Current health care needs, as well as growth
trends for such needs, for the area served by each hospital;
(7) Hospitals in high growth areas; and
(8) Utilization.
(c) In the development of the institution-specific
[plan] COMPONENT the Commission shall give priority to the
conversion of acute capacity to alternative uses where
appropriate.
(d) (1) The Commission shall use the institution-specific
[plan] COMPONENT in reviewing certificate of need
applications for conversion, expansion, consolidation, or
introduction of hospital services in conjunction with the REST OF
THE State health plan.
(2) If there is a conflict between the State health
plan and any rule or regulation adopted by the Commission in
accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 1 of the State Government
Article to implement [an]. A SEPARATE institution-specific
plan that is developed for identifying any excess capacity in
beds and services, the provisions of whichever plan [that] is
most recently adopted shall control.
[(3) Immediately upon adoption of the
institution-specific plan the Health Resources Planning
Commission shall begin the process of incorporating the
institution-specific plan into the State health plan and shall
complete the incorporation within 12 months.]
(E) SUBJECT TO EVALUATION BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
IMPACT OF THIS SECTION ON HOSPITAL CAPACITY, ACCESS TO HEALTH
CARE, AND QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE IN THE STATE, THIS SECTION AND
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