COPN; demonstration of public need and compliance with State Medical Facilities Plan.

COPN; demonstration of public need and compliancewith State Medical Facilities Plan. Provides that, notwithstandingany other provision of law or regulation, an application for a certificateof public need for the introduction of a specialty-level neonatalspecial care service in Planning District 5 that (i) contains inthe record testimony of a neonatologist, employed or contracted byan incumbent provider of neonatal special care services in the sameplanning district, that the proposed number of bassinets in the applicationis clinically appropriate for the neonatal special care service proposedand would be beneficial to health outcomes of infants born at theapplicant's facility and (ii) includes the agreement of the applicantto accept standard charity care conditions on the proposed neonatal special care services shall be deemed to (a) demonstrate a publicneed for such proposed specialty-level neonatal special care serviceand (b) be consistent with the State Medical Facilities Plan.