OAR 333-590-0000: General

(1) The applicant, in providing information to the Public Health Division to demonstrate need for a proposed new hospital, must satisfy the criteria specified in the Certificate of Need Application Instructions (OAR chapter 333, division 580). This response will include completing an analysis using the methodology of OAR chapter 333, division 590. (2) Exclusion from OAR chapter 333, division 590. Evaluating need for a freestanding psychiatric hospital and psychiatric units that meet criteria as a “new hospital” as defined by ORS 442.015 shall be subject to the methodology described in OAR chapter 333, division 615 and division 580. No methodology from OAR chapter 333, division 590 shall apply to “new hospitals,” neither freestanding or psychiatric units within the license of a general acute hospital.