1E Modifying certain critical access hospital provisions to conform to federal law; expanding the definition of eligible rural hospital under the rural hospital planning and transition and capital improvement grant programs, the moratorium on hospital construction to a certain critical access hospital under the medicare rural hospital flexibility program and critical access hospitals access to swing beds, specifying certain requirements for use of swing beds by critical access hospitals without attached nursing homes; requiring the commissioner of health to review swing bed and related data and report and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date on the use of swing bed days by all hospitals
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