OAR 333-610-0060: Temporary rule language in effect until 12/21/2026. Hospital Long-Term Care Beds

This rule has an operative date of June 24, 2026. (1) Long-term care facility services and beds offered in or through a hospital must be separately licensed by the Seniors and People with Disabilities Division. Therefore, the creation of a long-term care facility by a hospital will be considered to constitute the establishment of a new health care facility, subject to review under OAR 333-550-0010(1). Additions to the bed capacity of such facilities will be subject to review if such additions are greater than 10 percent of the existing capacity of the long-term care facility, or greater than 10 beds, whichever is less, as provided in OAR 333-550-0010(3). (2) When a hospital proposes to create a new long-term care facility which will either be associated with, or located in, the hospital; or increase the number of long-term care beds (as defined in OAR 333-610-0010(12)) in such a facility by more than 10 beds or 10 percent of the facility’s bed capacity, whichever is less, or when a hospital proposes to relocate long-term care beds to such a facility, the project will be subject to certificate of need on the same basis as any freestanding nursing home project would be under OAR 333-610-0000 to 333-610-0030.