I. Certificate of Need Program
A. Project Modification
AL2005-039, Athens-Limestone Hospital, Athens, AL: Proposes to establish a 40-bed long-term acute care hospital, hospital within a hospital, by converting 40 acute care beds.
Project Modification Request: Requested to establish a 40-bed long-term acute care hospital by converting 30 acute care beds and adding 10 new LTACH beds.
Approved.
B. Project Modification
L2012-026, Holding Realty I, LLC d/b/a Vestavia Health Realty, LLC, Vestavia Hills, AL: Proposes to relocate 120 nursing home beds from the Jefferson Rehabilitation and Health Center ("Ketona") to a rehabilitation unit, a 24-bed rehabilitation unit, a 24-bed memory care and dementia unit, and a 36-bed long-term care unit.
Project Modification Request: Increase in the project cost from $26,565,220 to $30,857,677, or an increase of approximately 16.2%, and change the name from Holding Realty I, LLC d/b/a Vestavia Health Realty, LLC, to Cahaba River Realty, LLC d/b/a Cahaba River Health & Rehabilitation, LLC. Opposition: None.
Approved.
C. Project Modification
AL2012-027, Holding Realty I, LLC d/b/a Hoover Health Realty, LLC, Hoover, AL: Proposes to relocate 118 nursing home beds from the Jefferson Rehabilitation and Health Center ("Ketona") to Hoover Health Realty. Sixty beds will be used as a short-term rehabilitation unit, 24 beds as a memory care and dementia unit, and 34 beds as a traditional long-term care unit.
Project Modification Request: Increase in the project cost from $25,595,220 to $30,408,509, or an increase of approximately 18.8%, and change the name from Holding Realty I, LLC d/b/a Hoover Health Realty, LLC, to Green Valley Health Realty, LLC d/b/a Green Valley Health & Rehabilitation, LLC. Opposition: None.
Approved.
D. AL2013-073, Birmingham Senior Services, LLC d/b/a Regency Birmingham Memory Care, Birmingham, AL:
Proposes to relocate 70 specialty care assisted living beds from Tannehill Specialty Care, located on Coleman Lake Road, McCalla, AL, to Regency Birmingham Memory Care, located on West Oxmoor Road. Opposition: Rittenhouse Senior Living of Hoover, LLC, filed a letter objecting to this project. Alabama Somerby, LLC, withdrew intervention and opposition December 23, 2013.
Approved.
E. AL2014-001, Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc., Montgomery, AL:
Proposes to expand the existing ESRD facility consisting of 20 stations by adding one peritoneal dialysis station. Opposition: None
Approved.
F. AL2014-002, Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc., Grand Bay, AL:
Proposes to expand the existing ESRD facility consisting of 21 stations by adding four hemodialysis stations and two home training stations. Opposition: None
Approved.
G. AL2014-003, Bio-Medical Applications of Alabama, Inc., Mobile, AL:
Proposes to construct a new 14-station ESRD facility, one of which will be an isolation station and one a home training station, providing services to pregnant and pediatric patients as well as typical ESRD patients. Opposition: None
Approved.
H. AL2014-004, Chateau Vestavia, LLC, Birmingham AL:
Proposes to convert 16 assisted living beds to 16 specialty care assisted living beds, pursuant to Alabama Administrative Code r. 410-2-4-.04 of the State Health Plan. Opposition: None
Approved.
I. AL2014-005, MH RDM Operating, LLC, Madison, AL:
Proposes to construct a new 32-bed specialty care assisted living facility by relocating 16 SCALF beds from Agape I and 16 SCALF beds from Agape II. Opposition: None
Approved.
II. Reviewability Determinations and Pending Reviewability Determinations
Reviewability Determinations:
None
Pending Reviewability Determinations:
RV2014-001, Shelby Baptist Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC, requests to lease space from Shelby Baptist Medical Center for the use of two to four additional procedure rooms. Status: Pending
RV2014-004, SMFI Therapy, L.L.C., requests to operate an outpatient rehab facility providing only physical therapy in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. Status: Pending
RV2014-005, DCH Regional Medical Center, requests to replace equipment and enlarge a Special Procedures/EP Room. Status: Pending
RV2014-006, St. Vincent's Home Health, LLC d/b/a St. Vincent's Home Health of Jefferson County Rehabilitation Services, requests to provide multidisciplinary therapy/rehabilitation services to the residents of Episcopal Foundation of Jefferson County d/b/a St. Martin's in the Pines through a service/lease agreement. Status: Pending
The next CON Review Board meeting will be held on February 19, 2014.
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