Sec. 17b-356. Health care facility proposing to expand services by adding nursing home beds. Procedures. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17b-356. Health care facility proposing to expand services by adding nursing home beds. Procedures. Any health care facility or institution, as defined in subsection (a) of section 19a-490, except a nursing home, rest home, residential care home or residential facility for the mentally retarded licensed pursuant to section 17a-227 and certified to participate in the Title XIX Medicaid program as an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, proposing to expand its services by adding nursing home beds shall obtain the approval of the Commissioner of Social Services in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to sections 17b-352, 17b-353 and 17b-354 for a facility, as defined in section 17b-352, prior to obtaining the approval of the Office of Health Care Access pursuant to section 19a-638 or 19a-639, or both.

      (P.A. 93-262, S. 15, 87; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 97-112, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 93-262 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-112 replaced "home for the aged" with "residential care home".