SB389 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Greg J. Reed
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2015
Title: Certificate of need process, expanded to include certain psychiatric residential treatment facilities, Sec. 22-21-260 am'd.
Description: This bill would revise the definition of a health care facility under the certificate of need law to encompass psychiatric residential treatment facilities providing psychiatric and other therapeutic and clinically informed services to individuals under the age of 21 outside of an acute care hospital setting, and to provide for a streamlined procedure for providers to obtain a certificate of need for existing facilities in the state.
Subjects: Certificate of Need

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health and Human Services