To require new specialty hospitals to provide significant inpatient care, appropriate levels of Medicare and Medicaid services, the same percentage of charity care as local general hospitals, 24-hour emergency services, and other services. This does not apply to a specialty hospital that provides only psychiatric, pediatric, long-term acute care, or rehabilitative services. See companion HB 1378.   Official Text and Analysis.

To remove the requirement that specialty hospitals provide continuous emergency services as a condition of licensure.