Condition of Licensure

(A) Each hospital shall participate in risk management programs as required under M.G.L. c. 111, § 203(d). (B) Applicants for a license for an acute-care hospital must submit a plan, to be approved by the Department, for the provision of community benefits, including the identification and provision of essential health services. In approving the plan, the Department may take into account the applicant's existing commitment to primary and preventive health care services and community contributions as well as the primary and preventive health care services and community contributions of any predecessor hospital. The Department may waive this requirement, in whole or in part, at the request of the applicant which has provided or at the time the application is filed, is providing substantial primary and preventive health care services and community contributions in its service area. The Department may consider a hospital’s community benefits plan that is filed with the Attorney General’s office or with the Department in compliance with the Determination of Need program and has been made public, to meet the requirements of 130 CMR 130.108. (C) Each hospital shall comply with all applicable state and federal statutes and regulations pertaining to health care facilities.