Mo. Code Regs. Ann. tit. 19, § 30-20.106
Inpatient Care Units in Hospitals
Effective Feb 29, 2008sections 192.006 and 197.080, RSMo 2000 and 197.154, RSMo Supp. 2007.* This rule previously filed as 19 CSR 30-20.021(3)(J)1. Original rule filed June 27, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: 192.006, RSMo 1993, amended 1995; 197.080, RSMo 1953, amended 1993, 1995; and 197.154, RSMo 2004Division of Regulation and Licensure
PURPOSE: This rule establishes classifications for hospitals.
- (1) A facility to be classified as a general hospital shall provide inpatient care for medical or surgical patients, or both, and may include pediatric, obstetrical and newborn, psychiatric or rehabilitation patients. To be classified a specialized pediatric, psychiatric or rehabilitation hospital, a facility shall provide inpatient care in an exclusive specialty such as pediatrics, psychiatry or rehabilitation and shall have a medical staff and other professional or technical personnel especially qualified in the particular specialty for which the hospital is operated.
AUTHORITY: sections 192.006 and 197.080, RSMo 2000 and 197.154, RSMo Supp. 2007.* This rule previously filed as 19 CSR 30-20.021(3)(J)1. Original rule filed June 27, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: 192.006, RSMo 1993, amended 1995; 197.080, RSMo 1953, amended 1993, 1995; and 197.154, RSMo 2004.