NC DHSR HPCON: 2013 Meeting Documents

State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) Meeting

October 2, 2013 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on October 2, 2013.

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Agenda (PDF, 9 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 118 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee Report (PDF, 20 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee Documents from the meeting on September 18, 2013
Technology and Equipment Committee Report (PDF, 26 KB)
Technology and Equipment Committee Documents from the meeting on September 17, 2013
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report (PDF, 31 KB)
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Documents from the meeting on September 11, 2013

May 29, 2013 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on May 29, 2013.

Download a ZIP file containing documents for the meeting on May 29, 2013. (ZIP, 19.50 MB) - Updated 5/29/2013

Agenda (PDF, 9 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 31 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee Recommendations (PDF, 31 KB) - Updated 5/29/2013
- Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
  - Multi-County Acute Care Service Areas for the 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 11 KB)
  - Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 92 KB)
  - Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination (PDF, 13 KB) - Updated 5/29/2013
  - Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital (LTBH) Bed Inventory (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 35 KB)
- Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  - Petition: Application of Certificate of Need (CON) and Licensure Exceptions Equally to All Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
    - Agency Report (PDF, 17 KB)
    - Petition: MedCapital Advisors: Petition for Change in Basic Policies and Methodologies (PDF, 262 KB)
      - Additional Supporting Discussion (PDF, 229 KB)
      - GI Colon and CON Press Release June 1, 2005 (PDF, 19 KB)
      - Appendices A, B, C and D (PDF, 3.34 MB)
      - Comments
        
        Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 784 KB)
        
        Duke University Health System (PDF, 2.66 MB)
        
        High Point Regional Health System (PDF, 14 KB)
        
        North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 196 KB)
        
        Novant Health (PDF, 6.82 MB)
        
        Randolph Hospital (PDF, 438 KB)
        
        WakeMed (PDF, 87 KB)
  - Multi-County Operating Room Service Areas for the 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Proposed Multi-County Service Area Language for Chapter Six 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory (PDF, 118 KB) - Updated 5/29/2013
  - Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2016 (PDF, 91 KB) - Updated 5/29/2013
  - Table 6C: Operating Room Need Determination (PDF, 9 KB) - Updated 5/29/2013
  - Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory (PDF, 76 KB)
  - Single-Specialty Ambulatory Surgery Facility Demonstration Project Annual Evaluation Report Summary (PDF, 10 KB)
    - Attachment A (PDF, 98 KB)
    - Attachment B (PDF, 379 KB)
    - Attachment C (PDF, 522 KB)
    - Attachment D (PDF, 41 KB)
    - Attachment E (PDF, 128 KB)
    - Attachment F (PDF, 58 KB)
- Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  - Table 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Graph 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures: 1999-2012 (PDF, 8 KB)
  - Table 7B: Open Heart Surgery Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Table 7C: Burn Intensive Care Services (PDF, 8 KB)
  - Table 7D: Burn Intensive Care Services Bed Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Table 7E: Bone Marrow Transplants (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Table 7F: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Table 7G: Solid Organ Transplantation Services (PDF, 8 KB)
  - Table 7H: Solid Organ Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
- Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  - Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds (PDF, 12 KB)
  - Table 8B: Inpatient Rehabilitation Bed Need Determination (PDF, 19 KB)
Technology and Equipment Committee Recommendations (PDF, 27 KB)
- Lithotripsy
  - Table 9A: Mobile Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Table 9B: Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served and Table 9C: Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (PDF, 9 KB)
- Gamma Knife
  - No documents
- Linear Accelerators
  - Table 9F: Linear Accelerator Treatment Data – Hospital and Free-Standing (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Table 9G: Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Table 9H:Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Table 9I: Linear Accelerator Service Area (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Table 9J: Linear Accelerator Inventory for Demonstration Project (PDF, 19 KB)
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanners
  - Petition: Petition Related to Mobile PET Services
    - Agency Report (PDF, 64 KB)
    - Petition: Novant Health and Medquest: Petition Related to Mobile PET Services (PDF, 5.2 KB)
    - Comments
      - Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 160 KB)
      - Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 106 KB)
      - North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 75 KB)
      - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 387 KB)
  - Table 9L: PET Scanner Utilization of Existing Fixed Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 19 KB)
  - Table 9M(1):PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners and Table 9M(2): PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 9 KB)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanners
  - Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds and Fixed Equivalents (PDF, 249 KB)
  - Table 9Q(1-6): Inventory of MRI Demonstration Projects (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Table 9R: Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
  - Table 9S: Adult Diagnostic Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Aggregate Cardiac Catheterization Totals (PDF, 14 KB)
  - Table 9T: Pediatric Diagnostic Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 12 KB)
  - Table 9U: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Table 9V: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Interventional Procedures (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Table 9W: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment, Capacity and Volume (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Table 9X: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (PDF, 11 KB)
  - Table 9Y: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Recommendations (PDF, 34 KB)
- Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  - Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds (PDF, 175 KB)
  - Table 10B: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2017 (PDF, 53 KB)
  - Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
- Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  - Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds (PDF, 381 KB)
  - Table 11B: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2017 (PDF, 59 KB)
  - Table 11C: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
- Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  - Proposed Chapter 12 Text for Rounding (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Table 12A: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin - 2012 Data - Agencies or Offices Serving Residents of Counties by Age (PDF, 449 KB)
  - Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population (PDF, 190 KB)
  - Table 12C: 2014 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (PDF, 156 KB)
  - Table 12C: 2014 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (PDF, 34 KB)
  - Table 12D: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determinations (PDF, 11 KB)
- Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  - Petition: Change to the Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Methodology
    - Agency Report (PDF, 27 KB)
    - Petition: Hospice of Wake County, Inc.: Petition for Change to the Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Methodology (PDF, 267 KB)
    - Comments
  - Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin (PDF, 102 KB)
  - Table 13B: Year 2015 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
  - Table 13C: Year 2017 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
  - Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 20 KB)
  - Table 13D(2) Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2012 (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities (PDF, 15 KB)
  - Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Table 13G: Hospice Home Care Office Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
- Chapter 14: End Stage Renal Disease
  - Chapter 14: End-State Renal Disease (ESRD) Dialysis Facilities - draft narrative (PDF, 67 KB)
- Chapter 15: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
- Chapter 16: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
- Chapter 17: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
  - Petition: ICF-IID Policy to Transfer Vacant ICF/IID Beds from State Institutions to Community-Based Facilities
    - Agency Report (PDF, 23 KB)
    - Petition: Residential Services, Inc.: Petition to Allow Transfer of ICF-IID Beds (PDF, 351 KB)
    - Comments
      - Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions (PDF, 44 KB)
      - Comments from Individuals (PDF, 161 KB)
  - Proposed Clarifying Language for Service Areas (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Table 17A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds (PDF, 26 KB)
  - Table 17B: State Facility Beds Excluded from ICF/IID Inventory By Local Management Entity (LME) (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Table 17C: Adult ICF/IID Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Table 17D: Child ICF/IID Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)

March 6, 2013 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on March 6, 2013.

Agenda (PDF, 9 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 155 KB)

Acute Care Services (ACS) Committee

September 18, 2013 ACS Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 46 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 49 KB)
Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
- Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 80 KB)
- Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 11 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination to Decrease Acute Care Beds in Cumberland County from 126 to 34
  - Agency Report (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Petition: Cape Fear Valley Health System: Petition for an Adjustment to the Acute Care Bed Need Determination to Decrease the Need for 126 Acute Care Beds in the Cumberland Service Area to 34 Acute Care Beds in the Cumberland Service Area (PDF, 2.34 MB)
  - Comments
    - Cape Fear Valley Health System, Public Hearing (PDF, 133 KB)
    - Cape Fear Valley Health System, Board of Trustees (PDF, 54 KB)
    - Office of the Mayor, City of Fayetteville (PDF, 77 KB)
Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for a Single Specialty Ambulatory Surgical Facility in Buncombe County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Petition: Blue Ridge Bone & Joint Clinic: Petition for Support of a Demonstration Project for a Single Specialty, Two Operating Room, Ambulatory Surgical Facility in Buncombe, Madison, Yancey Counties (PDF, 1.38 MB)
  - Comments
    - Blue Ridge Bone & Joint Clinic (PDF, 279 KB)
    - Mission Hospital (PDF, 532 KB)
    - North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 64 KB)
- Comments Pertaining to Operating Rooms
  - Procedures and Process for Applying for and Obtaining a Certificate of Need for a Freestanding Single-Specialty Surgery Center
    - North Carolina Orthopaedic Association (PDF, 352 KB)
    - OrthoWilmington (PDF, 153 KB)
    - Southeastern Orthopaedic Specialists, PA (PDF, 145 KB)
Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
- No documents
Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
- No documents

May 8, 2013 ACS Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 16 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 51 KB)
Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
- Multi-County Acute Care Service Areas for the 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 11 KB)
- Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 35 KB)
- Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 90 KB)
- Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 11 KB)
- Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital (LTBH) Bed Inventory (PDF, 17 KB)
Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
- Multi-County Operating Room Service Areas for the 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 10 KB)
- Proposed Multi-County Service Area Language for Chapter Six 2014 Proposed SMFP (PDF, 21 KB)
- Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory (PDF, 115 KB)
- Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2016 (PDF, 91 KB)
- Table 6C: Operating Room Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory (PDF, 72 KB)
- Single-Specialty Ambulatory Surgery Facility Demonstration Project Annual Evaluation Report Summary (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Attachment A (PDF, 98 KB)
  - Attachment B (PDF, 379 KB)
  - Attachment C (PDF, 522 KB)
  - Attachment D (PDF, 41 KB)
  - Attachment E (PDF, 128 KB)
  - Attachment F (PDF, 58 KB)
Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
- Table 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures (PDF, 9 KB)
- Graph 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures: 1999-2012 (PDF, 8 KB)
- Table 7B: Open Heart Surgery Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
- Table 7C: Burn Intensive Care Services (PDF, 8 KB)
- Table 7D: Burn Intensive Care Services Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 16 KB)
- Table 7E: Bone Marrow Transplants (PDF, 9 KB)
- Table 7F: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
- Table 7G: Solid Organ Transplantation Services (PDF, 8 KB)
- Table 7H: Solid Organ Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 16 KB)
Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
- Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds (PDF, 12 KB)
- Table 8B: Inpatient Rehabilitation Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 19 KB)

April 10, 2013 ACS Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 16 KB) - Updated 4/10/2013
Minutes (PDF, 67 KB)
Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
- Update on Need Methodology Workgroup
  - Bed Need Analysis SMFP 2004-2013 (PDF, 93 KB)
Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
- Petition: Application of Certificate of Need (CON) and Licensure Exceptions Equally to All Ambulatory Surgical Facilities
  - Agency Report (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Petition: MedCapital Advisors: Petition for Change in Basic Policies and Methodologies (PDF, 262 KB)
    - Additional Supporting Discussion (PDF, 229 KB)
    - GI Colon and CON Press Release June 1, 2005 (PDF, 19 KB)
    - Appendices A, B, C and D (PDF, 3.34 MB)
    - Comments
      - Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 784 KB)
      - Duke University Health System (PDF, 2.66 MB)
      - High Point Regional Health System (PDF, 14 KB)
      - North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 196 KB)
      - Novant Health (PDF, 6.82 MB)
      - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 438 KB)
      - WakeMed (PDF, 87 KB)
Chapter 7: Other Acute Services
- No documents
Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
- No documents

Long-Term and Behavioral Health (LTBH) Committee

September 11, 2013 LTBH Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 49 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 66 KB)
Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
- No documents
Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for 20 Adult Care Beds in Stanly County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 85 KB)
  - Petition: Lutheran Services of the Carolinas: Petition Regarding Adult Care Bed Adjusted Need Determination for Stanly County (PDF, 319 KB)
  - Comments
    - Lutheran Services of the Carolinas (PDF, 804 KB)
    - Letters of Support (PDF, 730 KB)
    - There were 11 additional letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Chapter 12: Home Health Services
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for No Need for a Home Health Agency or Office in Granville County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Petition: Granville-Vance District Health Department: Petition Regarding an Adjusted Need Determination for No Need for a Home Health Agency in Granville County (PDF, 1.37 MB)
  - Comments
    - Granville-Vance District Health Department (PDF, 192 KB)
    - Assocation for Home & Hospice Care (PDF, 92 KB)
Chapter 13: Hospice Services
- Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin (PDF, 103 KB)
- Table 13B: Year 2015 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
- Table 13C: Year 2017 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
- Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 20 KB)
- Table 13D(2): Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2012 (PDF, 22 KB)
- Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities (PDF, 15 KB)
- Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds (PDF, 18 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Six Inpatient Hospice Beds in Robeson County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 13 KB)
  - Petition: W & B Health Care: Petition for an Adjusted Need Determination for Hospice Residential Beds in Robeson County (PDF, 122 KB)
  - Comments
    - No comments received
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Three Hospice Inpatient Beds for Catawba County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 19 KB)
  - Petition: Catawba Regional Hospice: Petition for an Adjusted Need Determination for Three Hospice Inpatient Beds for Catawba County (PDF, 447 KB)
  - Comments
    - No comments received
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Three Additional Hospice Inpatient Beds in Surry County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Petition: Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care: Petition for an Adjusted Need Determination for Three Additional Hospice Inpatient Beds in Surry County (PDF, 411 KB)
  - Comments
    - Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care (PDF, 174 KB)
    - Assocation for Home & Hospice Care (PDF, 92 KB)
    - There were 306 letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 11, 2013
- Comments Pertaining to Hospice Services
  - Need Determination for Additional Inpatient Hospice Beds in Guilford County
    - Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro (PDF, 100 KB)
    - Hospice of the Piedmont (PDF, 49 KB)
  - Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Methodology
    - Hospice of Wake County (PDF, 63 KB)
Chapter 14: End Stage Renal Disease
- Petition: Revision of Errors in the July 2013 SDR so They are not Reflected in Future SDRs
  - Agency Report (PDF, 14 KB)
  - Petition: Fresenius Medical Care: Petition Regarding Data Reporting Errors in July 2013 SDR (PDF, 3.17 MB)
  - Comments
    - No comments received
Chapter 15: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for 24 Adult Psychiatric Beds for Eating Disorder Patients in Durham LME
  - Agency Report (PDF, 40 KB)
  - Petition: Veritas Collaborative: Petition to Recognize the Need for 24 Adult Psychiatric Beds for Eating Disorders in Durham County (PDF, 533 KB)
  - Comments
    - Letters of Support (PDF, 244 KB)
    - UNC Hospitals (PDF, 190 KB)
Chapter 16: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services
- No documents
Chapter 17: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- No documents

May 17, 2013 LTBH Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 15 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 73 KB)
Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
- Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds (PDF, 228 KB)
- Table 10B: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2017 (PDF, 53 KB)
- Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
- Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds (PDF, 383 KB)
- Table 11B: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2017 (PDF, 59 KB)
- Table 11C: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
Chapter 12: Home Health Services
Chapter 13: Hospice Services
- Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin (PDF, 259 KB)
- Table 13B: Year 2015 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
- Table 13C: Year 2017 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 62 KB)
- Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 20 KB)
- Table 13D(2) Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2012 (PDF, 21 KB)
- Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities (PDF, 15 KB)
- Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 13G: Hospice Home Care Office Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
Chapter 14: End Stage Renal Disease
- Chapter 14: End-State Renal Disease (ESRD) Dialysis Facilities - draft narrative (PDF, 67 KB)
Chapter 15: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
Chapter 16: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
Chapter 17: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- Table 17A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds (PDF, 26 KB)
- Table 17B: State Facility Beds Excluded from ICF/IID Inventory By Local Management Entity (LME) (PDF, 9 KB)
- Table 17C: Adult ICF/IID Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 17D: Child ICF/IID Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)

April 17, 2013 LTBH Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 52 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 47 KB)
Nursing Care Facilities - Chapter 10
- No documents
Adult Care Homes - Chapter 11
- No documents
Home Health Services - Chapter 12
- Proposed Chapter 12 Text for Rounding (PDF, 21 KB)
Hospice - Chapter 13
- Petition: Change to the Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Methodology
  - Agency Report (PDF, 27 KB) - Updated 4/15/2013
  - Petition: Hospice of Wake County, Inc.: Petition for Change to the Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Methodology (PDF, 267 KB)
  - Comments
End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities - Chapter 14
- No documents
Psychiatric Inpatient Services - Chapter 15
- Proposed Clarifying Language for Chapter 15 (PDF, 10 KB)
- Statewide LME-MCO service area map (PDF, 132 KB)
Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services - Chapter 16
- Proposed Clarifying Language for Chapter 16 (PDF, 13 KB)
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities – Chapter 17
- Proposed Clarifying Language for Chapter 17 (PDF, 10 KB)
- Petition: ICF-IID Policy to Transfer Vacant ICF/IID Beds from State Institutions to Community-Based Facilities
  - Agency Report (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Petition: Residential Services, Inc.: Petition to Allow Transfer of ICF-IID Beds (PDF, 351 KB)
  - Comments
    - Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions (PDF, 44 KB)
    - Comments from Individuals (PDF, 161 KB)

Technology and Equipment (TE) Committee

September 17, 2013 TE Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 16 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 55 KB)
Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
- Petition: Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center requests an adjusted need determination for shared fixed cardiac catheterization equipment in Davidson County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 22 KB)
  - Petition: Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center: Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for Shared Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Davidson County (PDF, 13.25 MB)
  - Comment
    - Wake Forest Baptist Health - Lexington Medical Center (PDF, 4.11 MB)
- Petition: New Hanover Regional Medical Center requests an adjusted need determination for additional cardiac catheterization equipment in New Hanover County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Petition: New Hanover Regional Medical Center: Petition for Adjusted Need Determination in New Hanover County for Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment (PDF, 343 KB)
MRI Scanners
- Petition: Person Memorial Hospital requests an adjusted need determination for one additional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner in Person County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 17 KB)
  - Petition: Person Memorial Hospital: Petition Regarding Fixed Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment Adjusted Need Determination (PDF, 446 KB)
  - Comments
    - Person Memorial Hospital (PDF, 251 KB)
    - Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 136 KB)
    - Person Health Primary Care (PDF, 84 KB)
    - There were 20 letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Technology and Equipment Committee meeting on Tuesday, September 17, 2013
- Petition: Cape Fear Valley Health System requests an adjusted need determination for one additional MRI Scanner in Bladen County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Petition: Cape Fear Valley Health System: Petition for Adjusted Need Determination for One Fixed MRI Scanner in Bladen County (PDF, 2.69 MB)
  - Comments
    - Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 138 KB)
    - Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 139 KB)
- Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area (PDF, 189 KB)
Linear Accelerators
- Petition: Duke Raleigh Hospital requests an adjusted need determination for one additional linear accelerator in Service Area 20
  - Agency Report (PDF, 20 KB)
  - Petition: Duke University Health System: Petition for Adjustment to Need Determination in Service Area 20 for Additional Linear Accelerator (PDF, 540 KB)
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 70 KB)
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 41 KB)
    - Cary Urology (PDF, 112 KB)
    - Prostate Health Center (PDF, 145 KB)
    - Rex Healthcare (PDF, 155 KB)
- Comments on Linear Accelerators
  - Need Determination for a Linear Accelerator in the new Service Area 21, Harnett County
    - Cancer Centers of North Carolina (PDF, 389 KB)
    - Harnett Health System (PDF, 245 KB)
Lithotripsy
- No petitions or comments
Gamma Knife
- No petitions or comments
PET Scanners
- Comments on PET Scanners
  - Mobile PET Scanning Services
    - Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 474 KB)
    - Alliance Healthcare Services, Public Hearing (PDF, 162 KB)
    - Novant Health and Medquest (PDF, 220 KB)
  - PET Methodology
    - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 705 KB)
- Written discussion points on the SMFP PET methodology may be submitted by email to the following address: [email protected]. These discussion points will be presented for consideration at the Technology and Equipment Committee meeting on September 17, 2013.

April 24, 2013 TE Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 16 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 41 KB)
Lithotripsy
- Table 9A: Mobile Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (PDF, 27 KB)
- Table 9B: Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served and Table 9C: Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (PDF, 9 KB)
Gamma Knife
- No documents
Linear Accelerators
- Table 9F: Linear Accelerator Treatment Data – Hospital and Free-Standing (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 9G: Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (PDF, 27 KB)
- Table 9H:Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 9I: Linear Accelerator Service Area (PDF, 23 KB)
- Table 9J: Linear Accelerator Inventory for Demonstration Project (PDF, 19 KB)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanners
- Petition: Petition Related to Mobile PET Services
  - Agency Report (PDF, 64 KB)
  - Petition: Novant Health and Medquest: Petition Related to Mobile PET Services (PDF, 5.2 KB)
  - Comments
    - Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 160 KB)
    - Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 106 KB)
    - North Carolina Hospital Association (PDF, 75 KB)
    - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 387 KB)
- Table 9L: PET Scanner Utilization of Existing Fixed Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 19 KB)
- Table 9M(1):PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners and Table 9M(2): PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 9 KB)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanners
- Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds and Fixed Equivalents (PDF, 252 KB)
- Table 9Q(1): Inventory of MRI Scanners for Cardiovascular Clinical Research Use Pursuant to Policy AC-3 in the North Carolina 2001 State Medical Facilities Plan; Table 9Q(2): Inventory of Dedicated Breast MRI Scanners Pursuant to Adjusted Need Determinations in the North Carolina 2002 and 2006 State Medical Facilities Plans; Table (Q(3): Inventory of Dedicated Pediatric MRI Scanner Pursuant to Adjusted Need Determination in the North Carolina 2005 State Medical Facilities Plan; Table Q(4): Inventory of Demonstration Project for a fixed Extremity MRI Scanner Pursuant to Adjusted Need Determination in the North Carolina 2006 State Medical Facilities Plan; Table 9Q(5): Inventory of MRI Scanners Dedicated for Radiation Oncology and Use in Operating Room Suite; Table 9Q(6): Inventory of Fixed Multi-Position MRI Scanners Dedicated for Two Demonstration Projects (One Scanner per Project) (PDF, 16 KB)
Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
- Table 9S: Adult Diagnostic Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Aggregate Cardiac Catheterization Totals (PDF, 14 KB)
- Table 9T: Pediatric Diagnostic Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 12 KB)
- Table 9U: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 9V: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Interventional Procedures (PDF, 11 KB)
- Table 9W: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment, Capacity and Volume (PDF, 17 KB)
- Table 9X: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (PDF, 11 KB)

NC Division of Health Service Regulation

Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

2013 Meeting Documents