Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 65-24-2 - Definitions2.1. Birthing Center -- A short-stay ambulatory health care facility designed for low-risk births following normal uncomplicated pregnancy.2.2. Board -- The West Virginia Health Care Cost Review Authority which is designated to administer the Certificate of Need Program pursuant to W. Va. Code '16-29B-11.2.3. Community Board -- The governing board of a community-based primary care center which has a sufficient community representation to qualify that center as a federally qualified health center.2.4. Eligible Hospital -- A nonprofit hospital with less than one hundred (100) licensed acute care beds.2.5. Eligible Primary Care Center -- A facility which is nonprofit, has a community board, and provides primary care services to people in its community without regard to ability to pay.2.6. Primary Care Services -- Health-related services that emphasize first contact patient care and that link the patient to the full spectrum of health services, including health education, preventive services, secondary and tertiary care. The services may include maternal and child health programs, pediatric services, dental care, nutrition programs, adolescent care programs, women's health services, geriatric care, pharmaceutical services, lifestyle modification, wellness, and programs aimed at special community needs such as black lung and other occupational health clinics, health screening programs, and transportation services. Primary care services may be provided by physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurse-midwives. Primary care services shall not include the acquisition, offering, or development of major medical equipment otherwise subject to review under the provisions of W. Va. Code '16-2D-1 et seq. or the acquisition, offering or development of CT scanners, ambulatory surgical facilities, lithotripsy, magnetic resonance imaging or radiation therapy. Primary care services shall, furthermore, not include an obligation for a capital expenditure incurred by or on behalf of the facility in excess of the expenditure minimum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00).2.7. Rural Area -- An area which does not contain a municipality with a population of twenty thousand (20,000) people.2.8. State Agency -- Health Care Cost Review Authority.2.9. Underserved Service Area -- A service area in which any of the following are true: 2.9.1. There is one (1) delivering physician or nurse-midwife per one-hundred (100) deliveries per year.2.9.2. There is one (1) delivering physician or nurse-midwife per ten-thousand (10,000) total population.2.9.3. There is one (1) delivering physician or nurse-midwife per two thousand five hundred (2,500) women of childbearing age.2.9.4. A physician who works in collaboration with a certified nurse midwife shall not be counted separately in determining if an area is underserved with respect to low-risk obstetrical services.