Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) Meeting

(Note: For these meetings, please plan to attend in person)

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from February 25, 2026 meeting
• Acute Care Services Committee Recommendations
• Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee Recommendations
• Technology and Equipment Committee Recommendations
• Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections - UPDATED 6/3/2026
• Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determinations - UPDATED 6/3/2026
• New Chapter 6 Table: Qualified Urban Ambulatory Surgical Facility Inventory
• Committee-Approved Hospice Workgroup Recommendations
• Table 13B: Year 2028 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
• Table 13G: Hospice Home Care Office Need Determination
• Committee-Approved Linear Accelerator Workgroup Recommendations
• Linear Accelerator Need Projections (Table 15C-1) – REVISED
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery Procedures (Table 15C-2)
• Linear Accelerator Treatment Data – Hospital and Free-Standing (Table 15C-3)
• Linear Accelerators Need Determination (Table 15C-4) – REVISED
• New Chapter 6 Table: Qualified Urban Ambulatory Surgical Facility Inventory
• MRI Tables, Adjusted for New CON Law
• MRI Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds, Counties with 125,000 Population or Less (Table 15E-1)
• MRI Scanner Need Determinations by Service Area, Counties with 125,000 Population or Less (Table 15E-2)
• Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determination (Table 15E-4)

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

• Agenda (Business Meeting and Public Hearing)
• Minutes from October 1, 2025 meeting

Acute Care Services Committee

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from April 7, 2026
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Hospital Beds
  • HIDI/Licensure Acute Care Days Draft Data Discrepancy Report
  • Table 5A: Acute Care Bed Need Projections - REVISED
  • Table 5B: Acute Care Bed Need Determinations - REVISED
  • Table 5C: Long-Term Care Hospital Bed Inventory and Days of Care
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  
  • Table 6A: Operating Room Inventory and Grouping
  • Table 6B: Projected Operating Room Need for 2029
  • Table 6C: Operating Room Need Determination
  • Table 6D: Qualified Urban Ambulatory Surgical Facility Inventory
  • Table 6E: Endoscopy Room Inventory
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  
  • Table 7A-1, Table 7A-2 & Figure 7A: Burn Intensive Care Services
  • Table 7B & Figure 7B: Open-Heart Surgery Procedures
  • Table 7C-1 & Figure 7C-1: Bone Marrow Transplantation Services
  • Table 7C-3 & Figure 7C-2: Solid Organ Transplantation Services
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  
  • Table 8A: Inventory and Utilization of Inpatient Rehabilitation Beds
  • Table 8B: Inpatient Rehabilitation Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 9: End-Stage Renal Disease Dialysis Facilities
  • Chapter 9: Dialysis Data by County of Patient Origin – December 2025 Data
  • Table 9A: Inventory of Dialysis Stations and Calculation of Utilization Rates
  • Table 9B: ESRD Dialysis Station Need Determinations by Planning Area
  • Table 9D: Need Determination for New Dialysis Stations by Facility
  • Table 9E: Inventory of Dialysis Home Training Facilitie

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 9, 2025
• Chapter 5: Acute Care Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 6: Operating Rooms
  • DRAFT Table 6E: Qualified Urban Ambulatory Surgical Facility Inventory
• Chapter 7: Other Acute Care Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 8: Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 9: End Stage Renal Disease
  • No documents

Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee (LTBH) Meeting

Thursday, May 14, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from April 9, 2026
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • Table 10A: Inventory of Nursing Home and Hospital Nursing Care Beds
  • Table 10B: County Rate Calculations for Nursing Home Bed Need Determination
  • Table 10C: Nursing Care Bed Need Projections for 2030
  • Table 10D: Nursing Care Bed Need Determination
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  • Table 11A: Inventory of Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Beds
  • Table 11B: County Rate Calculations for Adult Care Home (Assisted Living) Bed Need Determination
  • Table 11C: Adult Care Home Need Projections for 2030
  • Table 11D: Adult Care Home Bed Need Determination
  • Table 11E: Inventory of Adult Care Home Beds in Continuing Care Retirement Communities
  • Table 11F: Inventory of Nursing Homes with Six or Fewer Adult Care Home Beds
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • Chapter 12: Home Health Data by County of Patient Origin – 2025 Data
  • Table 12A: Inventory of Licensed Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12B: Average Annual Rates of Change in Patients and Use Rates per 1,000 Population
  • Table 12C: 2028 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
  • Table 12D: 2028 Need Projections for Medicare-certified Home Health Agencies or Offices
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • Hospice Workgroup Recommendations
  • Chapter 13: Hospice Data by County of Patient Origin – 2025 Data
  • Table 13A: Inventory of Licensed Hospice Agencies
  • Table 13B: Year 2028 Hospice Home Care Office Need Projections
  • Table 13C: Year 2030 Hospice Inpatient Bed Need Projections
  • Table 13D: Hospice Inpatient Facilities
  • Table 13E: Hospice Inpatient Facilities Occupancy Rate for FY2025
  • Table 13F: Hospice Residential Facilities
  • Table 13G: Hospice Home Care Office Need Determination
• Chapter 14: Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Table 14A: Inventory of ICF/IID Facilities and Beds

Thursday, April 9, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 11, 2025
• Hospice Workgroup Recommendations
• Chapter 10: Nursing Care Facilities
  • No documents
• Chapter 11: Adult Care Homes
  • No documents
• Chapter 12: Home Health Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 13: Hospice Services
  • No documents
• Chapter 14: Intermediate Care Facilities for the Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  • No documents

Technology and Equipment Committee

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Agenda

• Agenda

Minutes

• Minutes from April 1,2026

Cardiac Catheterization

• Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment, Capacity and Volume (Table 15A-1)
• Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Capacity and Volume (Table 15A-2)
• Fixed Cardiac Catheterization Equipment Need Determination (Table 15A-3)

Gamma Knife

• No documents

Linear Accelerator (LINAC)

• Committee-Approved Linear Accelerator Workgroup Recommendations
• Linear Accelerator Need Projections (Table 15C-1) - REVISED
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery Procedures (Table 15C-2)
• Linear Accelerator Treatment Data – Hospital and Free-Standing (Table 15C-3)
• Linear Accelerators Need Determination (Table 15C-4) - REVISED

Lithotripsy

• Mobile and Fixed Lithotripter Services (Table 15D-1)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

• MRI Procedures by MRI Service Area with Tiered Thresholds, Counties with 125,000 Population or Less (Table 15E-1)
• MRI Scanner Need Determinations by Service Area, Counties with 125,000 Population or Less  (Table 15E-2)
• Fixed MRI Scanner Need Determination (Table 15E-4)

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

• Utilization of Existing Dedicated Fixed PET Scanners (Table 15F-1)
• Mobile PET Scanner Sites and Utilization (Table 15F-2)
• Fixed PET Scanner Need Determination (Table 15F-3)

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

• Agenda
• Minutes from September 3, 2025
• Linear Accelerator Workgroup Recommendations

Hospice Home Care Workgroup

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

• Teams Join Instructions
• Agenda
• Hospice Home Care Workgroup Charge
• Meeting Presentation
• Model

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

• Teams Join Instructions
• Agenda
• Hospice Home Care Workgroup Charge
• Meeting Presentation

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

• Teams Join Instructions
• Agenda
• Hospice Home Care Workgroup Charge
• Comments Regarding the Hospice Home Care Workgroup
  • Samuel Stern, Affinity Hospice & Palliative Care
  • Chris Comeaux, Teleios Collaborative Network
• Meeting Presentation

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

• Teams Join Instructions
• Agenda
• Hospice Home Care Workgroup Charge
• Meeting Presentation