Source: https://vacode.org/32.1-102.1/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 16:16:27+00:00

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“Certificate” means a certificate of public need for a project required by this article.”Clinical health service” means a single diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, preventive or palliative procedure or a series of such procedures that may be separately identified for billing and accounting purposes.”Health planning region” means a contiguous geographical area of the Commonwealth with a population base of at least 500,000 persons which is characterized by the availability of multiple levels of medical care services, reasonable travel time for tertiary care, and congruence with planning districts.
4. Intermediate care facilities, except those intermediate care facilities established for individuals with intellectual disability (ICF/MR) that have no more than 12 beds and are in an area identified as in need of residential services for individuals with intellectual disability in any plan of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.
7. Facilities for individuals with intellectual disability.
8. Psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities established primarily for the medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with substance abuse.
9. Specialized centers or clinics or that portion of a physician’s office developed for the provision of outpatient or ambulatory surgery, cardiac catheterization, computed tomographic (CT) scanning, stereotactic radiosurgery, lithotripsy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic source imaging (MSI), positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning, radiation therapy, stereotactic radiotherapy, proton beam therapy, nuclear medicine imaging, except for the purpose of nuclear cardiac imaging, or such other specialty services as may be designated by the Board by regulation.
11. Any facility licensed as a hospital.
9. Conversion in an existing medical care facility of psychiatric inpatient beds approved pursuant to a Request for Applications (RFA) to nonpsychiatric inpatient beds.
“Regional health planning agency” means the regional agency, including the regional health planning board, its staff and any component thereof, designated by the Virginia Health Planning Board to perform the health planning activities set forth in this chapter within a health planning region.”State Medical Facilities Plan” means the planning document adopted by the Board of Health which shall include, but not be limited to, (i) methodologies for projecting need for medical care facility beds and services; (ii) statistical information on the availability of medical care facilities and services; and (iii) procedures, criteria and standards for review of applications for projects for medical care facilities and services.
1982, c. 388; 1983, c. 533; 1984, c. 740; 1985, c. 513; 1989, c. 517; 1991, c. 561; 1992, c. 612; 1993, c. 704; 1995, c. 524; 1996, c. 1050; 1997, c. 600; 1998, c. 289; 1999, cc. 899, 920, 922; 2000, cc. 850, 920; 2004, c. 75; 2007, c. 502; 2008, c. 664; 2009, cc. 67, 175, 813, 840; 2011, cc. 92, 150; 2012, cc. 476, 492, 507, 803, 835; 2015, cc. 541, 542, 651.
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. . . medical equipment. 42 U.S.C. § 300m-2. See Code § 32.1-102.1 (defining "project"). A designated . . .
. . . certificate of public need (COPN) statute, Code § 32.1-102.1 et seq., and holding that statute . . .
. . . twelve-month rule" provided by Code § 32.1-102.1. . . .
. . . located in Salem, Virginia. Pursuant to Code || 32.1-102.1 et seq., it applied to the Commissioner . . .
. . . 388, and reenacted with amendments as Code §§ 32.1-102.1, -102.11. . . .
. . . Certificate of Public Need Statute (CON), Code § 32.1-102.1 et seq., a certificate must be obtained . . .
. . . defined in § 32.1-102.1." (Emphasis added.) The opening sentence of Code § 32.1-102.1 provides . . .
. . . nursing home is a medical care facility. Code § 32.1-102.1. . . .
. . . before undertaking a project enumerated in Code § 32.1-102.1. For example, a hospital must obtain a . . .
. . . COPN shall be consistent with the SMFP, Code § 32.1-102.1(A); see Roanoke Mem. Hosps., 3 Va.App. at . . .

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