135G.6  Inspection — conditions for issuance.
  The department shall issue a license to an applicant under this chapter if the following conditions exist:
  1.  The department has ascertained that the applicant’s facilities and staff are adequate to provide the care and services required of a subacute care facility.
  2.  a.  The department of human services has submitted written approval of the application based upon the process used by the department of human services to identify the best qualified providers. The process implemented by the department of human services shall identify the best qualified providers and ensure the geographic dispersion of subacute mental health services.
  b.  The department of human services shall not give approval to an application which would cause the number of publicly funded subacute care facility beds licensed under this chapter to exceed seventy-five beds.
  c.  The subacute care facility beds identified by the process initiated on or after July 1, 2015, shall be new beds located in hospitals and facilities licensed as a subacute care facility under this chapter. 
2012 Acts, ch 1120, §45; 2015 Acts, ch 61, §1