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Hospital Public Interest Review

The 2004 Minnesota Legislature passed a law establishing a public interest review process for hospitals seeking exceptions to the state’s hospital bed moratorium law (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 144.552). Under this process, a hospital seeking to increase its number of licensed beds or an organization seeking to obtain a hospital license must submit a plan to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). MDH is required to review the plan and issue a finding on whether the plan is in the public interest.

In conducting its review, the MDH is required to consider certain issues, including the following:

  • Whether the new hospital or hospital beds are needed to provide timely access to care or access to new or improved services;
  • The financial impact of the new hospital or hospital beds on existing acute-care hospitals that have emergency departments in the region;
  • How the new hospital or hospital beds will affect the ability of existing hospitals in the region to maintain existing staff;
  • The extent to which the new hospital or hospital beds will provide services to nonpaying or low-income patients relative to the level of services provided to these groups by existing hospitals in the region; and
  • The views of affected parties.

Under the statute, MDH must issue a finding within 90 days of receiving a complete proposal (or up to six months in extenuating circumstances).

Guidance for Public Interest Review Process, June 2015 (PDF)

Public Interest Reviews

  • Children's Minnesota
  • Regions Hospital

Completed Reviews

  • Fairview Health Services/Acadia Healthcare
  • North Shore Health
  • PraireCare Brooklyn Park - Submission filed September 2021

  • Regions Hospital - Submission filed November 2017

  • Tandem Hospital Partners

  • PrairieCare Brooklyn Park - Submission filed August 2016

  • PrairieCare Maple Grove

  • Sanford Thief River Falls Psychiatric Hospital

  • Perham Health Psychiatric Hospital

  • Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital

  • Proposal for a Specialty Psychiatric Hospital in Woodbury, Minn. (PDF)

  • Proposal for a New Inpatient Facility in Cass County, Minn. (PDF)

  • Fairview Health Services Proposal for a New Inpatient Facility in Maple Grove, Minn. (PDF)

  • North Memorial Health Care Proposal for a New Inpatient Facility in Maple Grove, Minn. (PDF)

  • Maple Grove Tri-Care Partnership Proposal for a New Inpatient Facility in Maple Grove, Minn. (PDF)
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Last Updated: 11/30/2022

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