50-5-245. Department to license specialty hospitals -- standards -- rulemaking -- moratorium. (1) Subject to subsection (4), the department shall license specialty hospitals using the requirements for licensure of hospitals and the procedure provided for in parts 1 and 2 of this chapter.
     (2) The department shall adopt rules that are necessary to implement and administer this section.
     (3) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (1), the department may not license a specialty hospital until July 1, 2009.
     (4) A health care facility licensed by the department and in existence on May 8, 2007, may not change its licensure status in order to qualify for licensure as a specialty hospital unless the health care facility is licensed as a hospital.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 365, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 466, L. 2007.