5336084 Resolution 20-763, Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014
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A RESOLUTION
20-763
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
December 17, 2014
To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to exempt the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation from certificate-of-need requirements for the establishment of an ambulatory care clinic in Ward 8.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that this resolution be cited as the “Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.
Sec. 2. (a) The District of Columbia provides healthy-baby services through a federal grant program known as the Healthy Start Program.
(b) While healthy baby services are needed throughout the District, the need is greatest in Wards 7 and 8. In 2012, Wards 7 and 8 had infant mortality rates of 9.5 and 14.9 infant deaths per thousand, respectively, as compared to an infant mortality rate of 7.9 infant deaths per thousand for the entire city.
(c) The Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation is a District-owned hospital located in Ward 8 that primarily serves Wards 7 and 8.
(d) The Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation wishes to expand services in Wards 7 and 8, including the use of mobile health clinics that would serve the entire city and provide services that supplement the Healthy Start Program.
(e) The District’s infant mortality remains higher than it should, and the addition of mobile health clinics to provide prenatal care would help reduce the rate of infant mortality.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
