1. (a) Projection time frame. Each July 1 bed need will be projected five (5) years from the current year, i.e., July 1, 2006 projections will be made for the year 2011.
2. (b) Service area is by PRTF area.

   Area 1	Area 2	Area 3	Area 4	Area 5	Area 6
   Counties	Counties	Counties	Counties	Counties	Counties
   Benton	Clay	Saline	Clark	Arkansas	Mississippi
   Carroll	Craighead	Pulaski	Garland	Cleveland	Poinsett
   Madison	Greene	Lonoke	Hot Spring	Grant	Cross
   Washington	Lawrence	Prairie	Montgomery	Jefferson	Crittenden
   Crawford	Baxter	Pope	Pike	Lincoln	St. Francis
   Franklin	Woodruff	Yell	Calhoun	Ashley	Lee
   Logan	Randolph	Johnson	Columbia	Bradley	Phillips
   Polk	Cleburne	Faulkner	Dallas	Chicot	Monroe
   Scott	Fulton	Conway	Nevada	Desha
   Sebastian	Independence	Perry	Ouachita	Drew
   Searcy	Izard		Union
   Boone	Jackson		Hempstead
   Marion	Sharp		Howard
   Newton	Stone		Miller
   	Van Buren		Lafayette
   	White		Little River
   			Sevier

3. (c) Bed need formula.

   1. (1)

      1. (A) One and one-thousandth (1.001) beds per one thousand (1,000) persons six through seventeen (6 – 17) years of age.
      2. (B) Seventy-eight-hundredths (.78) beds per one thousand (1,000) persons eighteen through twenty-one (18 – 21) years of age.
   2. (2) Before additional beds may be approved existing PRTFs must have averaged eighty percent (80%) occupancy for the previous calendar year.

4. (d) Review priorities. Applicants will be approved in the following ranked order:

   1. (1) Existing PRTFs that are transferring beds;
   2. (2) Existing PRTFs wishing to expand and replace an older facility;
   3. (3) Applicants for new PRTFs in sections of the state that are more than one and a half (1 1/2) hours travel time from existing PRTFs; and
   4. (4) Applicants for new PRTFs.

Codification Notes: "PRTF" means psychiatric residential treatment facility.