{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-490","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 65-490","heading":"Rural emergency hospitals; granting of physical environment waivers; conditions; transition to skilled nursing facility beds.","body":"(a) The secretary for aging and disability services shall, upon application of a rural emergency hospital, grant a physical environment waiver for existing nursing facilities to such rural emergency hospital to transition not more than 10 swing beds to skilled nursing facility beds, if such rural emergency hospital:\n(1) Is currently licensed as a rural emergency hospital pursuant to the rural emergency hospital act;\n(2) was licensed as a hospital immediately prior to the rural emergency hospital's licensure as a rural emergency hospital; and\n(3) during such rural emergency hospital's licensure as a hospital, such rural emergency hospital provided skilled nursing facility services or critical access hospital swing bed services to patients for at least 12 months without a finding of immediate jeopardy.\n(b) As used in this section:\n(1) \"Critical access hospital\" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-468, and amendments thereto.\n(2) \"Hospital\" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto.\n(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the rural emergency hospital act.","path":["Chapter 65.—PUBLIC HEALTH","Article 4.—HOSPITALS AND OTHER FACILITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_004_0090.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:24:31Z","sha256":"ad5609f2c08f14ad240ad4cce07c14580e998d2ab0ba512d373ef5da519d38b3","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-489","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-491"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}