# Mississippi — Certificate of need programs by US state For Mississippi, has con program is yes; facilities covered is hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, chemical dependency hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, end-stage renal disease facilities, intermediate care facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities, home health agencies, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, pediatric skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, comprehensive medical rehabilitation facilities; statute citation is Miss. Code Ann. § 41-7-171 et seq, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19; source re-checked 2026-09-01. - **State:** Mississippi _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Has CON program:** yes _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **Facilities covered:** hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, chemical dependency hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, end-stage renal disease facilities, intermediate care facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities, home health agencies, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, pediatric skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, comprehensive medical rehabilitation facilities - **Moratorium:** Skilled nursing facilities. Intermediate care facilities. Converting hospitals beds to skilled or intermediate nursing home care. Medicaid-certified child/adolescent psychiatric or chemical dependency beds. Intermediate care facilities for the intellectually disabled. - **Statute citation:** Miss. Code Ann. § 41-7-171 et seq. ## What the source says > Mississippi Health Care Facility Licensing/Certification Agency | Mississippi Department of Health / Office of Health Policy and Planning | Certificate of Need Law | Miss. Code Ann. § 41-7-171 et seq. | ## Source - https://www.ncsl.org/health/certificate-of-need-state-laws Last verified: 2026-09-01. Review by: 2027-02-15. Part of [Certificate of need programs by US state](https://referencesource.org/state-certificate-of-need-programs/).