Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › FACILITY STANDARDS AND LICENSING › Chapter 246-310 - Certificate of need › Section 246-310-263 - Pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional treatment center standards and need forecasting method

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
				A pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional treatment center is a hospital
				providing comprehensive pediatric cardiology care, including medical and
				surgical diagnosis and treatment.
(2) Pediatric cardiac surgery and
				interventions includes, but is not limited to: All pediatric surgery of the
				heart (excluding organ transplantation) and the great vessels in the chest; all
				pediatric catheter-based nonsurgical therapeutic and diagnostic interventions
				in the heart and great vessels in the chest; and invasive pediatric
				electrophysiologic procedures.
(3)
				Pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional procedure is a tertiary service as
				listed in WAC
				246-310-020. To be granted a
				certificate of need for a pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional
				treatment center, a hospital must meet the standards in this section in
				addition to applicable review criteria in WAC
				246-310-210,
				246-310-220,
				246-310-230, and
				246-310-240.
(4) The department must review new pediatric
				cardiac surgery and interventional center applications using the concurrent
				review cycle in this section.
(a) Applicants
				must submit letters of intent between the first working day and last working
				day of August of each year.
(b)
				Initial applications must be submitted between the first working day and last
				working day of September of each year.
(c) The department shall screen initial
				applications for completeness by the last working day of October of each
				year.
(d) Responses to screening
				questions must be submitted by the last working day of November of each
				year.
(e) The public review and
				comment period for applications begins on December 16 of each year. If December
				16 is not a working day in any year, then the public review and comment period
				begins on the first working day after December 16.
(f) The public comment period is limited to
				ninety days, unless extended according to the provisions of WAC
				246-310-120(2)(d).
				The first sixty days of the public comment period shall be reserved for
				receiving public comments and conducting a public hearing, if requested. The
				remaining thirty days shall be for the applicant or applicants to provide
				rebuttal statements to written or oral statements submitted during the first
				sixty-day period. Any interested person that:
(i) Is located or resides within the
				applicant's health service area;
(ii) Testified or submitted evidence at a
				public hearing; and
(iii) Requested
				in writing to be informed of the department's decision, must also be provided
				the opportunity to provide rebuttal statements to written or oral statements
				submitted during the first sixty-day period.
(g) The final review period is limited to
				sixty days, unless extended according to the provisions of WAC
				246-310-120.