NC DHSR HPCON: 2014 Meeting Documents

State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) Meeting

October 1, 2014 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on October 1, 2014.

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Agenda (PDF, 54 KB)
Minutes for September 3, 2014 (PDF, 163 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee Report (PDF, 101 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee Documents from the meeting on September 17, 2014
Technology and Equipment Committee Report (PDF, 143 KB)
Technology and Equipment Committee Documents from the meeting on September 9, 2014
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Report (PDF, 140 KB)
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Documents from the meeting on September 16, 2014

September 3, 2014 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on September 3, 2014.

Agenda (PDF, 9 KB)
Minutes for May 28, 2014 (PDF, 311 KB)

May 28, 2014 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on May 28, 2014.

Download a ZIP file containing documents for the meeting on May 28, 2014. (ZIP, 23.63 MB) - Updated 5/28/2014

Agenda (PDF, 11 KB)
Minutes for March 5, 2014 (PDF, 86 KB)
Acute Care Services Committee
- Acute Care Services Committee Report (PDF, 98 KB) - Posted 5/28/2014
- Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
  - Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 138 KB) - Updated 5/27/2014
  - Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination (PDF, 14 KB) - Updated 5/28/2014
  - Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Bed Inventory (PDF, 15 KB)
  - Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 52 KB)
- Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  - Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory (PDF, 150 KB)
  - Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2017 (PDF, 153 KB)
  - Table 6C: Operating Room Need Determination (PDF, 65 KB)
  - Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory (PDF, 131 KB)
- Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  - Table 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Graph 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures: 1999-2013 (PDF, 8 KB)
  - Table 7B: Open Heart Surgery Services Need Determination (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Table 7C: Proposed Burn Intensive Care Services (PDF, 38 KB)
  - Table 7D: Burn Intensive Care Services Need Determination (PDF, 78 KB)
  - Table 7E: Proposed Bone Marrow Transplants (PDF, 9 KB)
  - Table 7F: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Table 7G: Solid Organ Transplantation Services (PDF, 8 KB)
  - Table 7H: Solid Organ Transplantation Services Need Determination (PDF, 23 KB)
- Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  - Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds (PDF, 32 KB)
  - Table 8B: Inpatient Rehabilitation Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 79 KB)
Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee
- Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  - Petition to Review Nursing Home Bed Methodology: N.C. Health Care Facilities Association (PDF, 202 KB)
    - Agency Report (PDF, 26 KB)
  - Petition for a New Nursing Care Facility Policy: UNC Hospitals (PDF, 140 KB)
    - Agency Report (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds (PDF, 193 KB)
  - Table 10B: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 74 KB)
  - Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  - Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds (PDF, 294 KB)
  - Table 11B: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 87 KB)
  - Table 11C: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination (PDF, 68 KB)
- Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  - Chapter 12: Home Health Service Application of Standard Methodology: Step 13 – Revised draft language (PDF, 18 KB)
  - Table 12A: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2013 Data – Agencies or Offices Serving Residents of Counties by Age (PDF, 630 KB)
  - Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population (PDF, 227 KB)
  - Table 12C: 2016 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (Table 1) (PDF, 188 KB)
  - Table 12C: 2016 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (Table 2) (PDF, 38 KB)
  - Table 12D: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination (PDF, 74 KB)
- Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  - Petition for Change in Methodology for Hospice Inpatient Beds: Health Law Firm (PDF, 384 KB)
    - Agency Report (PDF, 94 KB)
  - Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2013 Data (PDF, 144 KB)
  - Table 13B: Year 2016 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 79 KB)
  - Table 13C: Year 2018 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 77 KB)
  - Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 20 KB)
  - Table 13D(2): Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY 2013 (PDF, 24 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, 69 KB)
  - Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease
  - Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Dialysis Facilities – draft narrative (PDF, 20 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
  - Table 17A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds (PDF, 113 KB)
  - Table 17B: State Facility Beds Excluded from ICF/IID Inventory By Local Management Entity-Managed Care Organization (LME-MCO) (PDF, 209 KB)
  - Table 17C: Adult ICF/IID Bed Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
  - Table 17D: Child ICF/IID Bed Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
Technology and Equipment Committee
- Technology and Equipment Committee Report (PDF, 159 KB) - Posted 5/28/2014
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanners
  - Petition to Change the PET Scanner Service Area and Host Site Requirements: Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 70 KB)
  - Petition Related to Mobile PET Services: MedQuest and Novant Health (PDF, 9.72 MB)
  - Petition for Positron Emission Tomography: Randolph Hospital (PDF, 814 KB)
    - Agency Report (All Petitions Combined) (PDF, 44 KB)
    - Comments on PET Methodology Petitions
      - Catawba Valley Medical Center (PDF, 1.93 MB)
      - Iredell Memorial Hospital (PDF, 68 KB)
      - Novant Health/Medquest (PDF, 718 KB)
      - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 770 KB)
      - Wake Forest Baptist Hospital (PDF, 708 KB)
  - Table 9L: Proposed PET Scanner Utilization of Existing Fixed Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Table 9M(1): Proposed PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners and Table 9M(2): Proposed PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 23 KB)
  - Table 9N: Fixed Dedicated PET Scanner Need Determination (PDF, 14 KB)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanners
  - Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds and Fixed Equivalents (PDF, 211 KB) - Updated 5/27/2014
  - Table 9R: Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determination (PDF, 12 KB)
- Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
  - Petition for Cardiac Catheterization: Johnston Health (PDF, 328 KB)
    - Agency Report (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Petition for Change to Cardiac Catheterization Need Determination Methodology: Rex Healthcare (PDF, 156 KB)
    - Agency Report (PDF, 22 KB) Updated
  - Table 9S: Adult Diagnostic Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Aggregate Cardiac (PDF, 14 KB)
  - Table 9T: Pediatric Diagnostic Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 11 KB)
  - Table 9U: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Table 9V: Percutaneous Coronary Interventional Procedures (PDF, 11 KB)
  - Table 9W: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment, Capacity and Volume (PDF, 54 KB)
  - Table 9X: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (PDF, 10 KB)
  - Table 9Y: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination, Table 9Z: Shared Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination and Table 9AA: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (PDF, 17 KB)
- Linear Accelerators
  - Table 9G: Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (PDF, 72 KB)
  - Table 9H: Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (PDF, 61 KB)
  - Table 9I: Linear Accelerator Service Areas (PDF, 68 KB)
  - Table 9K: Linear Accelerators Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Lithotripsy
  - Table 9A: Mobile Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (PDF, 98 KB)
  - Table 9B: Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served and Table 9C: Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (PDF, 69 KB)
  - Table 9D: Lithotripter Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
- Gamma Knife
  - No Documents

March 5, 2014 SHCC Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on March 5, 2014.

Agenda (PDF, 9 KB)
Minutes for October 2, 2013 (PDF, 95 KB)

Acute Care Services (ACS) Committee

September 17, 2014 ACS Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on September 17, 2014.

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Agenda (PDF, 132 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 172 KB)
Chapter 5: Acute Care Beds
- Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 13 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination Petition to Reduce the Need Projection of 82 Acute Care Beds to Zero in the Cumberland Service Area
  - Agency Report (PDF, 102 KB)
  - Petition for an Adjustment to the Acute Care Bed Need Determination to Decrease the Need for 82 Acute Care Beds in the Cumberland Service Area to Zero Acute Care Beds in the Cumberland Service Area (PDF, 418 KB)
    - Attachment 1 (PDF, 65 KB)
    - Attachment 2 (PDF, 520 KB)
    - Attachment 3 (PDF, 297 KB)
    - Comments
      - Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 323 KB)
- Other Comments
  - Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 168 KB)
  - Maria Parham Medical Center (PDF, 110 KB)
- Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 90 KB)
- Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 89 KB)
Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
- Petition: Adjusted Need Petition for Two Operating Rooms in New Hanover County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 153 KB)
  - Petition for Special Need Adjustment for Two Operating Rooms (PDF, 211 KB)
  - Comments
    - New Hanover Regional Medical Center (PDF, 83 KB)
    - N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 315 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Petition for Ambulatory Surgical Facility Demonstration Project
  - Agency Report (PDF, 93 KB)
  - Petition for Support of a Demonstration Project for a Single Specialty, Two Operating Room, Ambulatory Surgical Facility in Buncombe, Madison, Yancey (Buncombe County) Counties (PDF, 504 KB)
  - Comments
    - Blue Ridge Bone and Joint Clinic (PDF, 284 KB)
    - Mission Hospital (PDF, 1.69 MB)
    - N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 315 KB)
- Ambulatory Surgical Center Project Evaluations
  - Triangle Orthopaedics Surgical Center (PDF, 80 KB)
    - Triangle Orthopaedics Surgical Center Attachments (PDF, 6.35 MB)
  - Piedmont Outpatient Surgery Center (PDF, 82 KB)
    - Piedmont Outpatient Surgical Center Attachments (PDF, 1.08 MB)
Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
- No petitions, comments or data updates
Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation
- No petitions, comments or data updates

May 9, 2014 ACS Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 15 KB)
Minutes for April 22, 2014 (PDF, 31 KB)
Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
- Truven Health Analytics/Licensure Acute Care Days Comparison (PDF, 52 KB)
- Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections (PDF, 138 KB)
- Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determination (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Bed Inventory (PDF, 14 KB)
Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
- Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory (PDF, 149 KB)
- Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2017 (PDF, 154 KB)
- Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory (PDF, 147 KB)
Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
- Table 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures (PDF, 10 KB)
- Graph 7A: Adult Open-Heart Surgery Procedures: 1999-2013 (PDF, 8 KB)
- Table 7C: Proposed Burn Intensive Care Services (PDF, 38 KB)
- Table 7E: Proposed Bone Marrow Transplants (PDF, 9 KB)
- Table 7G: Solid Organ Transplantation Services (PDF, 8 KB)
Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
- Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds (PDF, 13 KB)

April 22, 2014 ACS Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on April 22, 2014.

Agenda (PDF, 15 KB)
Minutes for September 18, 2013 (PDF, 50 KB)

Long-Term and Behavioral Health (LTBH) Committee

September 16, 2014 LTBH Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on September 16, 2014.

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Agenda (PDF, 109 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 207 KB)
Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
- Petition: Nursing Care Bed Adjusted Need Determination for Davie County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 167 KB)
  - Nursing Care Bed Adjusted Need Determination for Davie County (PDF, 145 KB)
  - Comments
    - Letter of Support (PDF, 70 KB)
    - There were 67 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 Tuesday, September 16, 2014
- Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds (PDF, 194 KB)
- Table 10B: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 74 KB)
Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
- No petitions or comments
- Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds (PDF, 295 KB)
- Table 11B: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 86 KB)
Chapter 12: Home Health Services
- Petition: Adjust the Need Determination to Allocate an Additional Home Health Agency in Wake County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 176 KB)
  - Petition to Adjust the Need Determination to Allocate an Additional Home Health Agency in Wake County (PDF, 427 KB)
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 988 KB)
    - Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 112 KB)
    - PruittHealth Home Health (PDF, 1.95 MB)
- Petition: Adjust the Need Determination for one Medicare-certified Home Health agency in the Triangle Area committed to coordinating post-acute care with an orthopaedic surgery program
  - Agency Report (PDF, 91 KB)
  - Petition for an Adjusted Need Determination for one Medicare-certified home health agency in the Triangle Area committed to coordinating post-acute care with an orthopaedic surgery program (PDF, 147 KB)
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 988 KB)
    - N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 315 KB)
    - Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 112 KB)
- Policy HH-3 (PDF, 78 KB)
- Table 12A: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin - 2013 Data - Agencies or Offices Serving Residents of Counties by Age (PDF, 656 KB)
- Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population (PDF, 232 KB)
- Table 12C: 2016 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (PDF, 192 KB)
- Table 12C: 2016 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices, Need Projections (PDF, 39 KB)
Chapter 13: Hospice Services
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Three Hospice Inpateint Beds for Burke County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 102 KB)
  - Petition for an Adjusted Need Determination for Three Hospice Inpatient Beds for Burke County (PDF, 7.49 MB)
  - Comments
    - Letters of Support (PDF, 338 KB)
    - Letters of Support (PDF, 1.04 MB)
    - Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 112 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Three Inpatient Beds for Caldwell County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 101 KB)
  - Petition for Special Need Adjustment for Inpatient Hospice Beds in Caldwell County (PDF, 201 KB)
  - Comments
    - The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care (PDF, 190 KB)
    - Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 112 KB)
- Petition: Adjusted Need Determination for Three Additional Hospice Inpatient Beds in Richmond County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 86 KB)
  - Petition for Special Need Adjustment for Inpatient Hospice Beds in Richmond County (PDF, 193 KB)
  - Comments
    - The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care (PDF, 199 KB)
    - Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 112 KB)
- Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin - 2013 (PDF, 148 KB)
- Table 13B: Year 2016 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 84 KB)
- Table 13C: Year 2018 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 82 KB)
- Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 22 KB)
- Table 13D(2): Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2013 (PDF, 25 KB)
- Table 13E: Hospice Residential Facilities (PDF, 17 KB)
- Table 13F: Inventory of Hospice Residential Beds (PDF, 19 KB)
- Table 13G: Hospice Home Care Office Need Determinations (PDF, 11 KB)
- Table 13H: Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 10 KB)
Chapter 14: End Stage Renal Disease
- No petitions or comments
- Revised Format Table A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculations of Utilization Rates (PDF, 77 KB)
- Revised Format Table B: ESRD Dialysis Station Need Determinations by Planning Area (PDF, 76 KB)
Chapter 15: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
- No petitions or comments
- Table 15A: Inventory of Psychiatric Beds, Excluding State Hospitals, By Local Management Entity-Management Care Organization (LME-MCO) (PDF, 45 KB)
- Table 15B: 2017 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by LME-MCO Part 1: Projection of Child/Adolescent Bed Need for 2017 (PDF, 17 KB)
- Table 15B: 2017 Projections of Psychiatric Bed Need by LME-MCO Part 2: Projection of Adult Bed Need for 2017 (PDF, 16 KB)
- Table 15C(1): Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need Determinations (PDF, 13 KB)
- Table 15C(2): Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Bed Need (PDF, 12 KB)
Chapter 16: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services
- No petitions or comments
- Table 16A: Inventory of Chemical Dependency (Substance Abuse) Beds, Excluding State Facilities by LME-MCO & Mental Health Planning Region (PDF, 42 KB)
- Table 16B: 2017 Projection of Chemical Dependency (Substance Abuse) Treatment Bed Need by Mental Health Planning Region (PDF, 22 KB)
Chapter 17: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- No petitions or comments
- Table 17A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities with Beds (PDF, 116 KB)
- Table 17B: State Facility Beds Excluded from ICF/IID Inventory by LME-MCO (PDF, 209 KB)

May 6, 2014 LTBH Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 51 KB)
Minutes for April 22, 2014 (PDF, 72 KB)
Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
- Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds (PDF, 193 KB)
- Table 10B: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 71 KB)
- Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
- Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds (PDF, 293 KB)
- Table 11B: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2018 (PDF, 88 KB)
- Table 11C: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination (PDF, 11 KB)
Chapter 12: Home Health Services
- Chapter 12: Home Health Service Application of Standard Methodology: Step 13 – Revised draft language (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 12A: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2012 Data – Agencies or Offices Serving Residents of Counties by Age (2014 SMFP) (PDF, 477 KB)
- Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population (2014 SMFP) (PDF, 190 KB)
- Table 12C: 2015 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (Table 1) (2014 SMFP) (PDF, 156 KB)
- Table 12C: 2015 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices (Table 2) (2014 SMFP) (PDF, 34 KB)
- Table 12D: Medicare-certified Home Health Agency or Office Need Determination (2014 SMFP) (PDF, 11 KB)
Chapter 13: Hospice Services
- Table 13A: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2013 Data (PDF, 144 KB)
- Table 13B: Year 2016 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections (PDF, 79 KB)
- Table 13C: Year 2018 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections (PDF, 76 KB)
- Table 13D(1): Hospice Inpatient Facilities (PDF, 20 KB)
- Table 13D(2): Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY 2013 (PDF, 24 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, 10 KB)
Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease
- Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Dialysis Facilities – draft narrative (PDF, 20 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
- 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-Managed Care Organization (LME-MCO) (PDF, 20 KB)
- Table 17C: Adult ICF/IID Bed Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 17D: Child ICF/IID Bed Need Determination (PDF, 9 KB)

April 22, 2014 LTBH Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 52 KB)
Minutes for September 11, 2013 (PDF, 40 KB)
Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
- Petition to Review Nursing Home Bed Methodology: N.C. Health Care Facilities Association (PDF, 202 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 26 KB)
- Petition for a New Nursing Care Facility Policy: UNC Hospitals (PDF, 140 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 16 KB)
Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
- No documents
Chapter 12: Home Health Services
- No documents
Chapter 13: Hospice Services
- Petition for Change in Methodology for Hospice Inpatient Beds: Health Law Firm (PDF, 384 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 94 KB)
  - Comments
    - Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina (PDF, 64 KB)
    - Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care (PDF, 267 KB)
    - Hospice of Wake County (PDF, 127 KB)
Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease
- Chapter 14: End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Dialysis Facilities - Draft Narrative (PDF, 66 KB)
Chapter 15: Psychiatric Inpatient Services
- No documents
Chapter 16: Substance Abuse Inpatient and Residential Services (Chemical Dependency Treatment Beds)
- No documents
Chapter 17: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
- No documents

Technology and Equipment (TE) Committee

September 9, 2014 TE Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 96 KB)
Minutes (PDF, 137 KB)
Positron Emission Tomography Scanner
- Comment: Policy TE-1: Conversion of Fixed PET Scanners to Mobile PET Scanners
  - Agency Response (PDF, 87 KB)
  - Comment: Policy TE-1: Conversion of Fixed PET Scanners to Mobile PET Scanners (PDF, 293 KB)
  - Attachments (PDF, 6.16 MB)
  - Comments
    - Novant Health and MedQuest (PDF, 389 KB)
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 877 KB)
    - N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 315 KB)
- Other Comments related to Policy TE-1: Conversion of Fixed PET Scanners to Mobile PET Scanners
  - Alliance Imaging (PDF, 394 KB)
  - Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 169 KB)
  - Cape Fear Valley Health System (PDF, 53 KB)
  - Iredell Memorial Hospital (PDF, 180 KB)
  - Novant Health and MedQuest (PDF, 650 KB)
  - Novant Health and MedQuest (PDF, 1.31 MB)
- Draft Policy TE-1 (PDF, 84 KB)
- Draft Chapter 9 - PET Section (PDF, 73 KB)
- Draft Table 9M(1): PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners and 9M(2): PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 18 KB)
- Table 9L: PET Scanner Utilization of Existing Fixed Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 21 KB)
Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
- Petition: Special Need Adjustment for Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Wake County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 109 KB)
  - Petition: Petition for Special Need Adjustment for Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Wake County (PDF, 354 KB)
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 1.98 MB)
    - WakeMed (PDF, 1.11 MB)
    - Letters of Opposition (PDF, 899 KB)
- Comment: No Adjustment Need Determination for Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Wake County
  - Agency Response (PDF, 58 KB)
  - Comment: Petition for No Adjusted Need Determination for Cardiac Catheterization Equipment in Wake County (PDF, 201 KB)
  - Comments
    - Rex Healthcare (PDF, 127 KB)
Magnetic Resonance Scanner
- Petition: Removal of Fixed MRI Need Determination in Lincoln County
  - Agency Report (PDF, 239 KB)
  - Petition: Petition to Remove the Need for One Additional Fixed MRI Scanner in Lincoln County (PDF, 58 KB)
  - Comments: None
- Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds and Fixed Equivalents (PDF, 193 KB)
Linear Accelerators
- Table 9G: Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures and Table 9H: Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (PDF, 31 KB)
Lithotripsy
- No documents
Gamma Knife
- No documents

May 7, 2014 TE Meeting

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Agenda (PDF, 16 KB)
Minutes for April 23, 2014 (PDF, 67 KB)
Cardiac Catheterization
- Petition for Change to Cardiac Catheterization Need Determination Methodology: Rex Healthcare (PDF, 156 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 22 KB) Updated
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 37 KB)
    - WakeMed (PDF, 6.23 MB)
- Table 9S: Adult Diagnostic Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Procedures by Facility and Aggregate Cardiac (PDF, 14 KB)
- Table 9T: Pediatric Diagnostic Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 11 KB)
- Table 9U: Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Procedures (PDF, 10 KB)
- Table 9V: Percutaneous Coronary 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, 10 KB)
- Table 9Y: Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (PDF, 15 KB)
PET Scanners
- Table 9L: Proposed PET Scanner Utilization of Existing Fixed Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 19 KB)
- Table 9M(1): Proposed PET Scanner Provider of Mobile Dedicated Scanners and Table 9M(2): Proposed PET Scanner Sites Utilization of Existing Mobile Dedicated Scanners (PDF, 9 KB)
MRI Scanners
- Table 9P: MRI Fixed and Mobile Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds and Fixed Equivalents (PDF, 210 KB)
- Table 9R: Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
Linear Accelerators
- Table 9G: Hospital and Free-Standing Linear Accelerators and Radiation Oncology Procedures (PDF, 73 KB)
- Table 9H: Linear Accelerator Service Areas and Calculations (PDF, 61 KB)
- Table 9I: Linear Accelerator Service Areas (PDF, 68 KB)
- Table 9K: Linear Accelerators Need Determination (PDF, 10 KB)
Lithotripsy
- Table 9A: Mobile Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served (PDF, 98 KB)
- Table 9B: Fixed Lithotripsy Providers and Locations Served and Table 9C: Mobile and Fixed Lithotripsy (PDF, 69 KB)
Gamma Knife
- No documents

April 23, 2014 TE Meeting

The following are the handouts for the meeting on April 23, 2014.

Download a ZIP file containing documents for the meeting on April 23, 2014. (ZIP, 19.69 MB)

Agenda (PDF, 25 KB)
Minutes for September 17, 2014 (PDF, 54 KB)
PET Scanners
- Petition Related to Mobile PET Services: MedQuest and Novant Health (PDF, 9.72 MB)
- Petition to Change the PET Scanner Service Area and Host Site Requirements: Alliance Healthcare Services (PDF, 70 KB)
- Petition for Positron Emission Tomography: Randolph Hospital (PDF, 814 KB)
- Agency Report (All Petitions Combined) (PDF, 44 KB)
  - Comments on PET Methodology Petitions
    - Catawba Valley Medical Center (PDF, 1.93 MB)
    - Iredell Memorial Hospital (PDF, 68 KB)
    - Novant Health/Medquest (PDF, 718 KB)
    - Randolph Hospital (PDF, 770 KB)
    - Wake Forest Baptist Hospital (PDF, 708 KB)
Cardiac Catheterization Equipment
- Petition for Cardiac Catheterization: Johnston Health (PDF, 328 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 16 KB)
  - Comments
    - Central Carolina Hospital (PDF, 75 KB)
    - Eric Janis, MD (PDF, 100 KB)
    - Halifax Regional Medical Center (PDF, 94 KB)
- Petition for Change to Cardiac Catheterization Need Determination Methodology: Rex Healthcare (PDF, 156 KB)
- Agency Report (PDF, 21 KB)
  - Comments
    - Duke University Health System (PDF, 37 KB)
    - WakeMed (PDF, 6.23 MB)
MRI Scanners
- No petitions or comments
Lithotripsy
- No petitions or comments
Gamma Knife
- No petitions or comments
Linear Accelerators
- No petitions or comments

NC Division of Health Service Regulation

Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

2014 Meeting Documents