United States: Alabama CON Review Board Update - May 2013

A. AL2013-001, Sunrise on the Circle, Inc., Pell City, AL: Proposes to convert 14 of the existing 28 assisted living beds to specialty care assisted living beds. Contested Case.

Ratified

B. AL2013-002, Village at Cook Springs, LLC, Pell City, AL: Proposes to add 15 specialty care assisted living beds to the existing 37-bed Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility. Contested Case.

Ratified

A. AL2013-035-E, Tuscaloosa Rehabilitation and Hand Center, Inc., Northport, AL: The applicant requests an emergency review to relocate from 3835 Watermelon Road, Ste. E, Northport, Alabama, to 5690 Watermelon Road, Ste. 100, Northport, AL. CON 2613-REHAB-E was issued April16, 2013. This project is being presented to the Board for ratification. This application was held over from the April 17, 2013, Board meeting.

Approved

B. AL2013-012, Heritage Assisted Living and Memory Care, LLC, Huntsville, AL: Proposes to construct a 16-bed Specialty Care Assisted Living Facility in Madison, Alabama, Limestone County. Thirteen of the beds are part of the need shown according to the statistical update of September 18, 2012, and three are pursuant to Section 410-2-4-.04(2)(d)(7) of the State Health Plan as amended. This application was held over from the April 17, 2013, Board meeting.

Opposition: None

Approved

C. AL2013-013, lSD Renal, Inc. d/b/a Walker County Dialysis, Jasper, AL: Proposes to relocate from 589 Highway 78 West, Jasper, Alabama, to a new location within Walker County, Alabama, and expand its existing 12-hemodialysis-station facility by adding one home training station, which will be used alternately for home hemodialysis training and home peritoneal dialysis training. This application was held over from the April l7, 2013, Board meeting.

Opposition: None

Approved

D. AL2013-014, DVA Renal Healthcare, Inc. d/b/a Red Mountain Home Training Dialysis, Birmingham, AL: Proposes to establish a new End Stage Renal Disease Home Training Facility toprovide both home hemodialysis training and home peritoneal dialysis training. The new facility willconsist of six home training stations to be relocated from Magic City Dialysis and four home training stations to be relocated from the now-closed Birmingham Home Training Dialysis. This application was held over from the April 17, 2013, Board meeting.

Opposition: None

Approved

E. AL2013-016, St. Vincent's Health System d/b/a St. Vincent's Blount, Oneonta, AL: Proposes to initiate a Swing Bed Program by certifying 10 of its acute care beds into the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Swing Bed Program.

Opposition: None

Approved

F. AL2013-018, Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc. d/b/a Fresenius Medical Care Scottsboro Dialysis, Scottsboro, AL: Proposes to add five dialysis stations to its existing facility, which consists of16 stations, pursuant to the exemption provision of Rule 410-2-3-.05(1)(c) of the Alabama StateHealth Plan.

Opposition: None

Approved

G. AL2013-019, BKD Alabama SNF, LLC d/b/a Hanover Health and Rehabilitation at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL: Proposes to replace and relocate the 66-bed facility from 39 Hanover Circle to asite on the campus of Brookdale Place University Park, located at 400 University Park Drive.

Opposition: None

Approved

H. AL2013-022, Hospice of West Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL: Proposes to add five inpatient hospice beds to the existing 10-bed, freestanding inpatient hospice facility pursuant to Rule 410-2-4- .15(6)(d)(7)(ii) of the Alabama State Health Plan.

Opposition: None

Approved

I. AL2013-024, University of Alabama Hospital, Birmingham, AL: Proposes to build out the seventh floor shell space of its Women & Infants Center and place into service 30 new private patient rooms for inpatient acute services.

Opposition: None

Approved

Reviewability Determinations:

RV2013-011, Renal Treatment Centers-Southeast, LP d/b/a Geneva Dialysis requests to establish and operate a new 10-station dialysis facility consisting of nine hemodialysis stations and one isolation station in Geneva County.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-012, Restore Therapy Outpatient requests to establish an outpatient therapy clinic providing physical therapy services in Moundville, Hale County, Alabama.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-013, Restore Therapy Outpatient requests to establish an outpatient therapy clinic providing physical therapy services in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-014, Troy Health and Rehabilitation Center requests to make minor renovations to the nursing home in order to create a secure unit for dementia patients.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-015, St. Vincent's Birmingham requests to relocate the existing oncology services to an existing building on the campus of St. Vincent's comprised of three condominiums. St. Vincent's will own Condominium A, which will consist of the radiation oncology bunkers, and Condominium B will be leased by St. Vincent's from MCS, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of the St. Vincent's Foundation), which will consist of the Cancer Center. Condominium C will be owned by Johnson Development, LLC and will house physicians' offices.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-016, SouthernCare, Inc. d/b/a SouthernCare Alabama, Inc. d/b/a SouthernCare Bessemer requests to relocate its administrative office from 2204 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 476, Birmingham, Alabama, to 1280 Columbiana Road, Suite 100, Birmingham, Alabama.

Status: Non-Reviewable

RV2013-017, Saad Enterprises Inc. d/b/a Saad Healthcare Services requests to establish a branch office at 1813 N. McKenzie Street, Foley, Alabama, Baldwin County.

Status: Non-Reviewable

Rural, Lakeland Community Hospital, LLC d/b/a Lakeland Community Hospital requests to purchase all the assets of Northwest Diagnostics, LLC. Lakeland Community Hospital intends to operate the offcampus imaging center as a department of the hospital.

Status: Non-Reviewable

Pending Reviewability Determinations:

RV2013-018, Heartlite Hospice Care requests to establish a satellite office located at 2227 Drake Ave., Ste. 3, Huntsville, Alabama.

Status: Pending

RV2013-019, Springhill Hospice-Citronelle requests to relocate their branch office from 19670 N. Third Street, Ste. B, Citronelle, Alabama, to 19645 N. Third Street, Citronelle, Alabama.

Status: Pending

RV2013-020, St. Vincent's Home Health of Jefferson County requests to establish a home health drop site in Blount County.

Status: Pending

RV2013-021, Restore Therapy Services Outpatient requests to establish an outpatient physical therapy clinic located at 300 Medical Center Drive, Chilton County, Alabama.

Status: Pending

RV2013-022, Helen Keller Hospital requests to establish a 10-station dialysis facility consisting of nine hemodialysis stations and one hemodialysis isolation station in Colbert County.

Status: Pending

Rural, Citizens Baptist Medical Center requests to provide in-home hospice services in Talladega County and its contiguous counties.

Status: Pending

Martins, LTD hereby petitions the Alabama CON Review Board for a declaratory ruling finding that Martins is the owner of the rights conferred under that certain certificate of need number 1792-SCALF issued on February 28, 2001, granting 16 specialized assisted living facility (SCALF) beds to Martinview Assisted Living Facility-East, which is currently licensed as a 16-bed SCALF.

The request for declaratory ruling was withdrawn by Martins, LTD due to a settlement the parties reached at the CON Review Board meeting.

Pleasant Properties, the operator of the current facility, will keep the currently existing CON, and Martin, LTD is granted the emergency CON requested below.

AL2013-051, Martins, LTD, Tuscaloosa, AL: Emergency application requesting 16 SCALF beds as the fee owner and lessor of Martinview East so that Martins may continue to offer SCALF services after the termination of the leasing relationship with Pleasant Properties.

Approved.

Rules:

All proposed rules were approved for publication.

410-1-3-.06 State Agency Records

410-1-3-.08 Mode of Filing

410-1-3-.09 Electronic Filing

410-1-3-.10 Electronic Notice

410-1-3-.07 Periodic Reports

410-1-5-.04 Fees

Forms:

All proposed forms were approved for publication.

Alabama Certificate of Need Application

Application for Extension of Certificate of Need

Request for Determination of Exemption Status for Replacement of Existing Equipment

The next CON Review Board meeting will be held on June 19, 2013.