On February 21, 2024, the Agency for Health Care Administration entered an order disposing of the petition for temporary variance filed by Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Inc. on December 1, 2023 and advertised in Vol. ....
AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:
59C-1.040New Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Services
The Agency for Health Care Administration hereby gives notice:
On February 21, 2024, the Agency for Health Care Administration entered an order disposing of the petition for temporary variance filed by Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Inc. on December 1, 2023 and advertised in Vol. 49, No. 241, Florida Administrative Register on December 14, 2023. The petition was assigned case number 2023017525. The Agency for Health Care Administration issued a Final Order denying in part and granting in part the limited conditional Petition for Variance of paragraph 59C-1.040(3)(c) which requires separate regulation of adult and child psychiatric units. The Petition for Variance of paragraph 59C-1.040(3)(c) to use a 12-bed adult psychiatric unit as a swing bed unit is denied, and to apply for a licensure change of bed designation from adult to child and from child to adult without repeated building code review is granted. The Agency for Health Care Administration finds the Petitioner demonstrated that the purpose of the underlying statute will be or has been achieved by other means and that application of the rule to Petitioner would create aa substantial hardship or violate principles of fairness.
A copy of the Order or additional information may be obtained by contacting: Richard Shoop, Agency Clerk, Agency for Health care Administration, 2727 Mahan Drive, Bldg. 3 MS 3, Tallahassee, FL 32308
