Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

The following are the handouts for the October 9, 2009 meeting.

• Agenda (not previously posted) (PDF, 51 KB)
• Minutes (not previously posted) (PDF, 107 KB)
• Acute Care Services Committee Report (not previously posted) (PDF, 47 KB)
  • Acute Care Beds
    • Facilities That Were Sent a Discrepancy Memo (PDF, 16 KB)
    • Agency Report: Cape Fear Valley Health System petition (PDF, 23 KB)
    • Petition 1: Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 3.50 MB)
    • Comments: Cape Fear Valley Health System (CFVHS) Petition
      • Presentation of CFVHS petition (PDF, 398 KB)
      • Sandy Godwin and Michael Nagowski, Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 708 KB)
      • Amy Graham comments (PDF, 1.60 MB)
    • Agency Report: CMC-Union petition (PDF, 46 KB)
    • Petition 2: CMC-Union (PDF, 93 KB)
    • Agency Report: Mission Hospitals (PDF, 26 KB)
    • Petition 3: Mission Hospitals (PDF, 4.59 MB)
    • Agency Report: Town of Holly Springs (PDF, 32 KB)
    • Petition 4: Town of Holly Springs (PDF, 12.92 MB)
    • Comments: Town of Holly Springs petition
      • Tim Sack (PDF, 622 KB)
      • Kenneth E. Bryan, Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital (PDF, 194 KB)
      • Cecil L. Parker, Jr. Holly Springs Department of Fire Rescue (PDF, 166 KB)
      • Dick Sears, Mayor of Holly Springs (PDF, 402 KB)
      • Chris Scoop Green, Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce (PDF, 472 KB)
      • Carl Dean letter to ACS Committee (not previously posted) (PDF, 31 KB)
    • Updated Table 5A (not previously posted) (PDF, 31 KB)
    • Updated Table 5B (not previously posted) (PDF, 11 KB)
    • Revised Step 1 of the AC Bed Need Projection Methodology (not previously posted) (PDF, 10 KB)
  • Operating Rooms (ORs)
    • Agency Report on Petitions 1-6 (PDF, 28 KB)
    • Petition 1: Atlantic Orthopedics, PA (PDF, 181 KB)
      • Comment: Atlantic Orthopedics Petition (PDF, 1013 KB)
    • Petition 2: Blue Ridge Bone & Joint Clinic (PDF, 65 KB)
    • Petition 3: Ancillary Care Solutions (PDF, 27 KB)
    • Petition 4: Southern Surgical Center, LLC (PDF, 701 KB)
    • Petition 5: North Carolina Orthopaedic Association, et al (PDF, 1.08 MB)
      • Comment: Presentation of NC Orthopaedic Association petition (PDF, 545 KB)
    • Petition 6:  Affordable Health Care Facilities, LLC (PDF, 100 KB)
    • Comments on Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgery Demonstration Project
      • Ed Piper, Onslow Memorial Hospital (PDF, 656 KB)
      • J. Anthony Rose, Catawba Valley Medical Center (PDF, 444 KB)
      • John G. Currin, Alamance Regional Medical Center (PDF, 17 KB)
      • Larry Chewning, Nash Health Care Systems (PDF, 57 KB)
      • Carolina East Health System (PDF, 65 KB)
      • Mike Vicario, N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 313 KB)
      • Ronald Shealy, PENTA (PDF, 701 KB)
      • Kenneth Maxwell, Penta (PDF, 749 KB)
      • Dan Murray, OrthoCarolina (PDF, 568 KB)
      • Charley Furr, OrthoCarolina (PDF, 561 KB)
      • Robert McBride, OrthoCarolina (PDF, 563 KB)
      • Charles Wilson, Triangle Orthopedics (PDF, 637 KB)
      • John Nosek, Greensboro Orthopedics (PDF, 652 KB)
      • Steve Keene, NC Medical Society (PDF, 562 KB)
      • Mike Vicario, NC Hospital Association (PDF, 35 KB)
    • Agency Report: Novant Health, Inc petition (PDF, 13 KB)
    • Petition 7: Novant Health, Inc (PDF, 891 KB)
    • Chronically Underutilized ORs Table (PDF, 11 KB)
    • Comment:  Novant Health support for 2010 OR Need Determination for 3 ORs Wake County (PDF, 502 KB)
    • OR Need Methodology Changes (not previously posted) (PDF, 26 KB)
    • Excerpt Table 6B Extended Service Areas (not previously posted)
    (PDF, 16 KB)
  • Comments Related to the AC Bed Need Methodology Work Group and the Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgery Demonstration Project
    • Will Pittman, Rex Hospital (PDF, 387 KB)
    • Sue Collier, University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina (PDF, 228 KB)
  • Other Acute Care Services
    • Updated Table 7E (not previously posted) (PDF, 11 KB)
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds - No documents

• Technology & Equipment Committee Report (not previously posted) (PDF, 18 KB)
  • Linear Accelerator Section
    • Linear accelerator data collection form (not previously posted) (PDF, 23 KB)
  • PET Scanners Section
    • Comment from Wallace Hollowell (PDF, 219 KB)
  • MRI Scanners Section
    • MRI Table 9K 8/27/2009 draft (PDF, 327 KB)
    • Agency Report: Rutherford Hospital petition (PDF, 19 KB)
    • Petition from Rutherford Hospital (PDF, 219 KB)
    • Comments related to MRI
      • Charlotte Radiology, P.A. (PDF, 260 KB)
      • Mike Vicario, North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 372 KB)
  • Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Section
    • Table 9N (PDF, 19 KB)
    • Table 9P (PDF, 13 KB)
    • Table 9R (PDF, 25 KB)
  • Comments for Multiple Sections
    • Sue Collier, University Health Systems (PET and MRI) (PDF, 235 KB)
  • Lithotripsy Section - No documents
  • Gamma Knife Section - No documents

• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report (not previously posted) (PDF, 19 KB)
  • Nursing Care Facilities - No documents
  • Adult Care Homes - No documents
  • Home Health Services
    • Agency Report: Bayada Nurses, Inc. petition (PDF, 13 KB)
    • Petition from Bayada Nurses, Inc. (PDF, 420 KB)
    • Comments on Petition
      • AssistedCare Home Health (PDF, 680 KB)
      • Liberty HomeCare Management Services (PDF, 214 KB)
  • Hospice Services
    • Agency Report: Hospice Inpatient Bed petitions (PDF, 37 KB)
    • Petition from Palliative CareCenter & Hospice of Catawba Valley (PDF, 347 KB)
    • Petition from Community CarePartners, Inc. (PDF, 46 KB)
    • Comments on Petition
      • Tracy Buchanan (PDF, 705 KB)
      • Joseph F. Damore (PDF, 40 KB)
      • Robert S. Posner, MD (PDF, 163 KB)
      • Joel B Rosenburg, MD (PDF, 201 KB)
      • Hazel Tilson (PDF, 35 KB)
      • Carlos A. Vargas, MD (PDF, 47 KB)
      • Jeanne Nanney (PDF, 43 KB)
    • Petition from Hospice House Foundation of WNC (PDF, 27 KB)
    • Comments on Petition
      • Ron Fisher, MD (PDF, 1.62 MB)
      • Michele Alderson
        • Comment at Asheville Public Hearing (PDF, 566 KB)
        • Comment at Charlotte Public Hearing (PDF, 462 KB)
        • Hospice House Foundation of WNC, Inc. (PDF, 314 KB)
    • Comments Related to Hospice Services Chapter
      • Kathy Cecil (PDF, 731 KB)
      • JoAnn Davis (PDF, 802 KB)
      • Dawn Carter, Health Planning Source (PDF, 13.15 MB)
      • Judy Brunger (PDF, 151 KB)
  • ESRD Dialysis - No documents
  • Psychiatric Inpatient Services
    • Psychiatric Inpatient Services Materials (PDF, 13 KB)
    • Local Management Entities Map (PDF, 36 KB)
    • Revised Table 15C (not previously posted) (PDF, 14 KB)
    • Agency Report: Thomasville Medical Center petition (PDF, 17 KB)
    • Petition from Thomasville Medical Center (PDF, 3.32 MB)
    • Letter from Piedmont LME (not previously posted) (PDF, 101 KB)
  • Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds) - No documents
  • Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded - No documents

• Comments for Multiple Committees
  • Amy Graham, First Health of the Carolinas (Acute Care Services, Technology and Equipment) (PDF, 204 KB)
  • Amy Bragg, UNC Hospitals (Acute Care Services, Technology and Equipment, Long-Term and Behavioral Health) (PDF, 383 KB)
  • Duncan Yaggy, Duke University Health System (Acute Care Services, Technology and Equipment) (PDF, 328 KB)
  • Carolinas HealthCare System (Acute Care Services, Technology and Equipment) (PDF, 129 KB)
  • Michael Freeman, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (Acute Care Services, Technology and Equipment) (PDF, 425 KB)
• Comments Regarding the Tentative CON Review Schedule - No documents
• Other Business - No documents