Bed Abeyance

Bed Abeyance. A health care facility seeking to place licensed beds in abeyance (voluntary temporary de-licensure) or to remove beds from abeyance (re-licensure) shall submit a written request letter to the Department. A fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) shall be assessed for the processing and handling of all abeyance requests and is payable to the Department by check, draft, or money order. No abeyance request shall be processed until the required fee is received. The Department shall maintain a record of all de-licensing facilities and their voluntarily de-licensed beds and shall continue to count those beds as part of the state's total bed count for health care planning purposes. If a health care facility that has voluntarily de-licensed beds later desires to re- license some or all of those beds, it shall notify the Department of its intent to increase the number of licensed beds. The Department shall survey the health care facility within thirty (30) calendar days of that notice and, if appropriate, issue the facility a new license reflecting the new bed complement. In no event shall a health care facility be re-issued a license to operate beds in excess of its bed count before voluntary de-licensure without seeking CON approval.