Kansas HB2249 mandates waivers for rural emergency hospitals to offer skilled nursing facility care and establishes a south central regional mental.
Kansas HB2249 requires the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers to certain rural emergency hospitals, allowing them to provide skilled nursing facility care. This waiver applies if the hospital has provided such services or critical access hospital swing bed services for at least a year without a finding of immediate jeopardy. The bill also establishes the south central regional mental health hospital, facilitating transitions for existing nursing facilities to rural emergency hospitals.
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