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MS Code § 41-9-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-207. State rural health-care plan

  The department is hereby authorized, in accordance with the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, as authorized by Section 4201 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105-33, to develop for the State of Mississippi a state rural health-care plan that (a) provides for the creation of one or more rural health networks in Mississippi; (b) promotes regionalization of rural health services in Mississippi; and (c) improves access to hospitals and other health services for rural residents of Mississippi.   The state rural health-care plan shall be developed in consultation with the Mississippi Hospital Association, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Board of Supervisors, or his designee, and rural hospitals located in Mississippi.   In developing the state rural health-care plan, the department shall designate rural nonprofit or public hospitals or facilities located in Mississippi as critical access hospitals, which critical access hospitals must meet the criteria for such designation as set out in Section 4201 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
MS Code § 41-9-209 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-209. Designation as a critical access hospital

 Any hospital is authorized to seek designation as a critical access hospital. Subject to federal law, there shall be no requirement or limitation regarding the distance that a critical access hospital must be located from another hospital. The bed-size limit for a critical access hospital is twenty-five (25) operational acute care beds, and the average maximum length of stay for patients in a critical access hospital is ninety-six (96) hours, unless a longer period is required because of inclement weather or other emergency conditions. In the event the critical access hospital is a swing bed facility, any of the twenty-five (25) acute care beds allowed in a critical access hospital may be used for the provision of extended care services or acute care inpatient services so long as the furnishing of such services does not exceed twenty-five (25) beds and so long as the hospital does not seek Medicaid reimbursement for more than fifteen (15) acute care inpatient beds. A critical access hospital (a) must make available twenty-four-hour emergency care services, as described in the state rural health-care plan, for ensuring access to emergency care services in the rural area served by the critical access hospital, and (b) must be a member of a rural health network. Any hospital that has a distinct-part skilled nursing facility, certified under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act, at the time it applies for designation as a critical access hospital, may continue its operation of the distinct-part skilled nursing facility and is not required to count the beds in the distinct-part skilled nursing facility for purposes of the allowed twenty-five (25) acute care inpatient beds. To the extent permitted under Section 41-7-171 et seq., a critical access hospital may establish a distinct-part psychiatric unit and a distinct-part rehabilitation unit, each of which must be certified under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act and each of which may consist of no more than ten (10) beds. No bed in the critical access hospital's distinct-part psychiatric unit or distinct-part rehabilitation unit shall be counted for purposes of the twenty-five (25) bed limitation. Each distinct-part unit in a critical access hospital must comply with all applicable state licensure laws and federal certification laws.
MS Code § 41-9-210 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-210. Critical access hospitals authorized to bank licensed hospital acute care beds; banked beds may be relicensed without certificate of need

 If a hospital seeks a new license from the department in order to be designated as a critical access hospital, the department shall maintain a record of the acute care beds of that hospital that have been delicensed as a result of that designation and continue counting those beds as part of the state's total acute care bed count for health care planning purposes. If a critical access hospital later desires to relicense some or all of its delicensed acute care beds, it shall notify the department of its intent to increase the number of its licensed acute care beds. The department shall survey the hospital within thirty (30) days of that notice and, if appropriate, issue the hospital a new license reflecting the new contingent of beds. That change may be accomplished without the need of the hospital to seek certificate of need approval under Section 41-7-171 et seq. However, in no event may a hospital that has delicensed some of its acute care beds in order to be designated as a critical access hospital be reissued a license to operate acute care beds in excess of its acute care bed count before the delicensure of some of its beds without seeking certificate of need approval.   This section shall apply to all hospitals that are designated as critical access hospitals on July 1, 2003, and all hospitals that may become designated as critical access hospitals after July 1, 2003.
MS Code § 41-9-211 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-211. Formation of a rural health network not subject to antitrust laws

 In forming an integrated network and in contracting for services, members of a rural health network and officers, agents, representatives, employees and directors of any member thereof shall be considered to be acting pursuant to clearly expressed state policy as established in Sections 41-9-201 through 41-9-217 under the supervision of the State of Mississippi and shall not be subject to state or federal antitrust laws while so acting.
MS Code § 41-9-213 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-213. Rules and regulations

 The department shall adopt, in accordance with Section 25-43-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, rules and regulations for the establishment and operation of rural health networks, including the designation of critical access hospitals of rural areas and minimum standards, as necessary, for such critical access hospitals.
MS Code § 41-9-215 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-215. Insurance and other coverage to provide benefits for services performed by critical access hospitals

 Each individual and group policy of accident and sickness insurance, each contract issued by health maintenance organizations, and all coverage maintained by an entity authorized under any article of Chapter 41, Title 83 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, shall provide benefits for services when performed by a critical access hospital if such services would be covered under such policies or contracts if performed by a full-service hospital.
MS Code § 41-9-217 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Hospital Flexibility Act|§ 41-9-217. Additional personnel

 The department is hereby authorized to hire additional personnel to implement Sections 41-9-201 through 41-9-217 pursuant to specific appropriations to the department for such purposes.
MS Code § 41-9-301 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Health Availability Act|§ 41-9-301. Short title

 Sections 41-9-301 through 41-9-311 shall be known and may be cited as the "Rural Health Availability Act."
MS Code § 41-9-303 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Health Availability Act|§ 41-9-303. Legislative findings

 The Legislature finds and declares the following:   In rural areas, access to health care is limited and the quality of health care is adversely affected by inadequate reimbursement and collection rates and difficulty in recruiting and retaining skilled health professionals.   There is limited, if any, overlap in the geographic service areas of Mississippi rural hospitals.   Rural hospitals' financial stability is threatened by patient migration to general acute care and specialty hospitals in urban areas.   The availability of quality health care in rural areas is essential to the economic and social viability of rural communities.   Cooperative agreements among rural hospitals would improve the availability and quality of health care for Mississippians in rural areas and enhance the likelihood that rural hospitals can remain open.
MS Code § 41-9-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Health Availability Act|§ 41-9-309. Judicial review

 Any applicant aggrieved by a decision of the department under this act shall be entitled to judicial review thereof in the Circuit Court of Hinds County, First Judicial District. In the review, the decision of the department shall be affirmed unless it is arbitrary, capricious, or it is not in compliance with this act.
MS Code § 41-9-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 9 - Regulation of Hospitals; Hospital Records|Rural Health Availability Act|§ 41-9-311. Certificates of need

 Nothing in this act exempts hospitals from compliance with the provisions of Section 41-7-171 et seq. concerning certificates of need.
MS Code § 41-11-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|In General|§ 41-11-7. Certain counties and municipalities authorized to make appropriations to University of Mississippi Medical Center

 In all counties and municipalities whose residents use the facilities of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to make an unlimited annual appropriation to the Medical Center, and the governing authorities of the municipality are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to make an unlimited annual appropriation to the Medical Center. The funds thus appropriated by the county and by the municipality for the added maintenance and support of the Medical Center shall be paid from the General Fund of the county and the municipality, and the amount thus appropriated by the county and by the municipality may be paid in monthly installments for the use and benefit of the Medical Center.
MS Code § 41-11-102 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-102. Children's Rehabilitation Center transferred to University of Mississippi Medical Center, Division of Children's Rehabilitation

 The administration, supervision, duties and all aspects of the Children's Rehabilitation Center shall be transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in a division to be called Division of Children's Rehabilitation. It is the intent that there shall be cooperation between the center, the Blake Center and the Department of Health, Children's Services.   The University of Mississippi Medical Center is authorized and empowered to minister to the educational, medical and total needs of those affected by cerebral palsy and other crippling conditions which are amenable to such treatment. The center shall be used to the greatest extent possible for such treatment.
MS Code § 41-11-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-103. Rules and regulations

 The University of Mississippi Medical Center shall promulgate such rules, regulations and policies as may be necessary and desirable to carry out the programs of the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center.
MS Code § 41-11-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-105. Constructing, erecting, and equipping center

 The state building commission is hereby authorized and empowered to erect, construct, and equip the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center, which shall have as its purpose the treatment and education of persons afflicted with cerebral palsy and other crippling conditions which are amenable to such treatment. The cost of constructing, erecting, and equipping such hospital may be paid from such funds as may be appropriated, or may heretofore have been appropriated, for such purpose by the legislature; and funds which are available to the state building commission or which have been set aside and earmarked for the construction, erection, and equipping of the "Crippled Children's Hospital" under the provisions of Chapter 291, Laws of 1954, or the "Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy," under the provisions of Chapter 308, Laws of 1956, are hereby designated and shall be applied to the constructing, erecting and equipping of the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center.
MS Code § 41-11-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-107. Location of center

 The Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center shall be located and constructed on the property and in accordance with the plans and specifications previously designated for the "Crippled Children's Hospital," or its successor the "Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy," at its location on Lakeland Drive in the vicinity of the Four-Year School of Medicine and University Hospital. It is intended that there shall be cooperation between the center and said Four-Year School of Medicine and University Hospital.
MS Code § 41-11-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-109. Transfer of center to University medical center; education of patients; eligibility for admission

 When the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center has been completed and made ready for occupancy, the buildings and land on which they are located, together with any and all equipment therefor, shall be conveyed and transferred by the State Building Commission to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for the use and benefit of the State of Mississippi in accordance with the provisions of Sections 41-11-101 through 41-11-113. Title to all land, buildings and equipment held by the board of trustees of the Mississippi Hospital School for Cerebral Palsy shall be conveyed to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for the use and benefit of the state in accordance with the provisions of such sections.   The University of Mississippi Medical Center may contract for and obtain the services of the board of education for the purpose of conducting educational programs for children in the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center and all institutions and agencies of the state government are requested and directed to participate and cooperate to the fullest extent authorized by law in rendering assistance towards the rehabilitation and restoration of such cerebral palsy patients and patients with other crippling conditions which are amenable to such treatment.   No member of the family of any member of the board of trustees shall be eligible for treatment in the center. Crippled children shall be admitted to the center insofar as practicable in proportion to the number of such children in the counties of the State of Mississippi, so that all such crippled children shall have equal opportunity for admission to the center.
MS Code § 41-11-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-111. Acceptance of grants, donations and funds

 The University of Mississippi Medical Center is authorized to accept any and all grants, donations or matching funds from private, public or federal sources in order to add to, improve and enlarge the physical facilities and equipment of the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center. The State Department of Health and the Crippled Children's Service are hereby specifically authorized and empowered to provide crutches, braces and any and all other mechanical devices available and designed for the assistance of those persons afflicted with cerebral palsy and other crippling conditions which are amenable to such treatment.
MS Code § 41-11-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 11 - State Charity Hospitals; Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center|§ 41-11-113. Declaration of intent; construction

 It is the intent of Sections 41-11-101 through 41-11-113 to change the name of the "Mississippi Crippled Children's Treatment and Training Center" to the Mississippi Children's Rehabilitation Center and to place it under the supervision and control of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Sections 41-11-101 through 41-11-113 should be construed liberally in order to accomplish the broad objectives in aiding persons afflicted with cerebral palsy and other crippling conditions which are amenable to such treatment, in any and every manner possible by the use of new techniques as they are developed and become known, and by use of the combination of education and medical services for the rehabilitation of such persons.
MS Code § 41-13-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 13 - Community Hospitals|In General|§ 41-13-10. Definitions

 For purposes of Sections 41-13-10 through 41-13-47, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein, unless the context otherwise requires:   "Administrator" shall mean the chief administrative official and executive officer of a community hospital selected by the board of trustees of such community hospital.   "Board of trustees" shall mean the board appointed pursuant to Section 41-13-29, to operate a community hospital.   "Community hospital" shall mean any hospital, nursing home and/or related health facilities or programs, including, without limitation, ambulatory surgical facilities, intermediate care facilities, after-hours clinics, home health agencies and rehabilitation facilities, established and acquired by boards of trustees or by one or more owners which is governed, operated and maintained by a board of trustees.   "Owner" shall mean any board of supervisors of any county having an ownership interest in any community hospital or leased facility on behalf of the county or on behalf of any supervisors district, judicial district or election district of the county and shall also mean any governing council or board of any municipality having an ownership interest in any community hospital or leased facility.   "Leased facility" shall mean a hospital, nursing home or related health facilities which an owner has leased to an individual, partnership, corporation, other owner or board of trustees for a term not in excess of fifty (50) years, conditioned upon the facility continuing to operate on a nonprofit basis. A leased facility shall not be deemed or considered to be a community hospital except for purposes of Sections 41-13-19 through 41-13-25, and shall not be subject to the statutory requirements placed on community hospitals except to the extent as may be specifically required by the terms of the applicable lease agreement. However, in situations where another community hospital, acting through its board of trustees, is the lessee of a leased facility, the leased facility shall remain subject to this chapter and other laws applicable to community hospitals, except that the owners of the lessee shall have sole authority to appoint the board of trustees for the leased facility, which shall be the same board of trustees as appointed under Section 41-13-29 for the lessee community hospital.   "Service area" means that area in which a community hospital may provide services and perform the activities in Section 41-13-35(5), as determined by a board of trustees by its patient origin studies, and may include areas outside of the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 41-13-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 13 - Community Hospitals|In General|§ 41-13-11. Community hospital liability and insurance

  [Repealed].   [Repealed].   Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall stand repealed from and after October 1, 1993.   From and after October 1, 1993, the board of trustees of any community hospital is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to obtain and pay for, out of operating funds of the community hospital, liability insurance of such kinds as said board of trustees deems advisable covering the operation of said community hospital, including trustees, employees and volunteers, and every department thereof, and all machinery, equipment, appliances and motor vehicles thereof or used in connection therewith so as to cover damages or injury to persons or property or both caused by the negligence of any member of said board of trustees or of any officer, director, agent, servant, attorney, employee or volunteer of such hospital while engaged in the performance of his duties or working in connection with the operation of said community hospital. Such insurance shall either be procured from a company or companies authorized to do business and doing business in the State of Mississippi or provided through a program of self insurance established pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-46-17, Mississippi Code of 1972. Such insurance shall be for such amounts of coverage and shall cover such trustees, employees, volunteers, departments, installations, equipment, facilities and activities as the board of trustees, in its discretion, shall determine. The board of trustees may likewise indemnify, either by the purchase of insurance or, directly, where funds are available, in whole or in part, any trustee, officer, director, agent, volunteer or employee of said facility or program for actual personal expenses incurred in the defense of any suit, or judgments resulting from said suit, brought against said trustee, officer, director, agent, volunteer or employee for alleged negligent or wrongful conduct committed while under the employment of or while providing service to a community hospital.   Notwithstanding the authority to purchase or provide liability insurance as provided for in subsection (4) of this section, any community hospital, owner or board of trustees shall be subject to and shall be governed by the provisions of Section 11-46-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, for any cause of action which accrues from and after October 1, 1993, on account of any wrongful or tortious act or omission of any such governmental entity, as defined in Section 11-46-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, or its employees relating to or in connection with any activity or operation of any community hospital.