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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="10-414" title_number="10" title_name="Department of Aging" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Continuing Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A provider may not begin construction of a renovation until the provider receives written approval from the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A provider shall file with the Department a request for approval for each renovation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At least 30 days before filing the request, the provider shall submit to the Department a written statement of intent to file a request for approval of a renovation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A request for approval of a renovation shall be in a form satisfactory to the Department.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A request for approval shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a statement of the purpose of and need for the renovation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a financial plan that demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Department that the renovation will not have an unreasonably adverse effect on the financial ability of the provider to provide continuing care in accordance with its continuing care agreements and this subtitle at the facility to be renovated and at the provider’s other facilities in the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>any other information that the Department requires.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department shall approve a renovation if the Department determines that the proposed renovation will not have an unreasonably adverse effect on the financial ability of the provider to provide continuing care in accordance with its continuing care agreements and this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
