{"data":{"id":"us-nm/24a-1-10","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"24A-1-10","heading":"Rural emergency hospital licensure; licensing requirements.","body":"A. The authority shall promulgate rules to establish a rural emergency hospital license that enables certain hospitals to apply to receive federal health care reimbursement as rural emergency hospitals.\nB. The authority shall only issue a rural emergency hospital license to a health facility that:\n(1) on December 27, 2020, was:\n(a) designated as a critical access hospital by the centers for medicare and medicaid services; or\n(b) licensed as a hospital with less than fifty licensed beds and located in a county in a rural area as defined in Section 1886(d)(2)(D) or Section 1886(d)(8)(E) of the federal Social Security Act;\n(2) provides rural emergency hospital services in the facility twenty-four hours per day and is staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week with a physician, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist or physician assistant;\n(3) has a transfer agreement in effect with a level 1 or level 2 trauma center;\n(4) does not have an annual average patient length of stay over twenty-four hours; and\n(5) meets any other requirements that the authority finds necessary to implement state licensure and satisfy centers for medicare and medicaid services requirements for reimbursement as a rural emergency hospital.\nC. A health facility that applies to the authority for licensure as a rural emergency hospital shall include with the licensure application:\n(1) an action plan for initiating rural emergency hospital services, including a detailed transition plan that lists the specific services that the facility will retain, modify, add and discontinue;\n(2) a description of services that the facility intends to provide on an outpatient basis; and\n(3) any other information required by rules of the authority.\nD. A rural emergency hospital shall not have inpatient beds, but a rural emergency hospital may have a unit that is a distinct part of the hospital that is licensed as a skilled nursing facility and provides post-hospital extended care services.\nE. For the purposes of this section,\"rural emergency hospital\" means a health facility that provides emergency and observational care and meets the licensure requirements outlined in Subsection B of this section.","path":["Chapter 24A - Health Care Code","ARTICLE 1 Health Care Code"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18974/index.do","current_through":"2026-05-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"16468dba7bbeb7cc798098b65470a6cbe7027ede5014223eded499ec5f338e7b","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/24a-1-9","next":"us-nm/24a-1-11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}