Section 15-8-90-02-206.1 - Policy Statement Regarding Certificate of Need Applications for the Offering of Nursing Home Care Services for Intellectually Disabled and Other Developmentally Disabled Individuals1.Legislationa. The 1990 Mississippi Legislature imposed a permanent moratorium which prohibits the MSDH from granting approval for or issuing a CON to any person proposing the new construction, addition to, or expansion of an intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled (ICF/ID).b. Effective July 1, 1990, any health care facility defined as a psychiatric hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, intermediate care facility for the intellectually disabled, or psychiatric residential treatment facility which is owned by the State of Mississippi and under the direction and control of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is exempted from the requirement of the issuance of a CON under Section 41-7-171 et seq., for projects which involve new construction, renovation, expansion, addition of new beds, or conversion of beds from one category to another in any such defined health care facility.c. Effective April 12, 2002, no health care facility shall be authorized to add any beds or convert any beds to another category of beds without a CON.d. Effective March 4, 2003, if a health care facility has voluntarily delicensed some of its existing bed complement, it may later relicense some or all of its delicensed beds without the necessity of having to acquire a CON. The facility must submit a letter requesting that the beds be placed in abeyance. MSDH shall maintain a record of the delicensing health care facility and its voluntarily delicensed beds and continue counting those beds as part of the state's total bed count for health care planning purposes.2.ID/DP Long-Term Care Planning Districts (ID/DD LTCPD): The need for additional ID/DD nursing home care beds shall be based on the ID/DD LTCPDs as outlined on Map 2-2.3.Bed Need: The need for ID/DD nursing home care beds is established at one bed per 1,000 population less than 65 years of age.4.Population Projections: MSDH shall use population projections as presented in Table 2-3 when calculating bed need.5.Bed Limit: No ID/DD LTCPD shall be approved for more than its proportioned share of needed ID/DD nursing home care beds. No application shall be approved which would over-bed the state as a whole.6.Bed Inventory: MSDH shall review the need for additional ID/DD nursing home care beds utilizing the most recent information available regarding the inventory of such beds.15 Miss. Code. R. 8-90-02-206.1