Scope and Contents The General Assembly created in the State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA) in 1978 to help administer federal health funds in Georgia. Although the name was new, many of the functions of this agency date back to the federal Partnership for Health Act (PL 89-749) of 1966. In 1974 [the U.S.] Congress passed the national Health Planning and Resources Development act (PL 93-641). To meet the requirement of this act, Georgia combined the Comprehensive Health Planning Unit (record...

Scope and Contents This series consists of original and photocopied Joint Hospital Data Questionnaire forms and the various versions used to collect statistical information on hospitals throughout Georgia. This data helps provide hospital care health planning and resource development for the state. Information included on the forms is as follows: (1) reporting period (2) hospital name, complete address and phone number (3) name and phone number of person to call for further information (4) type of organization...

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This series generally consists of one form (Nursing Home Questionnaire-State of Georgia) used to collect statistical information for use in nursing home/intermediate care home health planning and resource development in Georgia.

Scope and Contents This series consists of all records documenting the findings following an applicant's request for appeal when a Project Application is denied. Because of the massiveness of an appeal file, and the lengthiness of an investigation, the following listing (with an explanation of each instrument) represents documents normally included in an appeal file: 1. Application - submitted by an applicant (individual, institution or corporation) which may be: for building new institutions to provide...

Scope and Contents In 1981, the State Health Planning and Development Agency, a division of the Georgia Dept. of Human Resources began evaluating all proposals for new or expanded health care services or facilities in Georgia to determine that the service or facility is needed and to prevent unnecessary duplication. In 1999, the Certificate of Need or CON program was transferred to the Division of Health Planning in the newly created Dept. of Community Health. Pre-1981 files in this series concern the granting...