Health facilities: clinics

Eligible nonprofit clinic networks can expand or move locations through a faster application process without an initial onsite survey, while the state retains inspection authority.

What the law does ​

• Lets a clinic corporation use an affiliate application to open new primary care clinic sites or mobile health care units for qualifying clinics.
• Requires affiliate applications to be signed by a corporate board officer, chief executive officer, or executive director.
• Requires the parent clinic to be a qualifying original clinic, not an affiliate clinic, and to share nonprofit ownership, board, officers, medical leadership, and clinical policies with the affiliate.
• Allows qualifying primary care clinics to use the affiliate application to change locations and receive an updated license without an initial onsite survey.
• Requires a corporation to designate a qualified replacement parent clinic before closing its existing parent clinic.
• Requires the State Department of Public Health to issue licenses within 30 days after receiving a completed affiliate application and within seven days after approval.
• Requires clinic information changes to be filed on department forms.

Who it affects ​

• Nonprofit clinic corporations and their qualifying primary care clinics.
• New affiliate clinic sites and mobile health care units.
• Patients using primary care clinics and mobile health services.
• The State Department of Public Health.

Context ​

Clinics must have held an active license for at least five years, lack specified serious unresolved violations, and have no pending suspension or revocation action to use these pathways.