244.1605 - Provision of medical facilities and services in outlying areas. - Nevada Statutes

244.1605  Provision of medical facilities and services in outlying areas.  The boards of county commissioners may:

      1.  Establish, equip and maintain limited medical facilities in the outlying areas of their respective counties to provide outpatient care and emergency treatment to the residents of and those falling sick or being injured or maimed in those areas.

      2.  Provide a full-time or part-time staff for the facilities which may include a physician, a physician assistant licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS, a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse, a certified emergency medical technician and such other personnel as the board deems necessary or appropriate to ensure adequate staffing commensurate with the needs of the area in which the facility is located.

      3.  Fix the charges for the medical and nursing care and medicine furnished by the facility to those who are able to pay for them, and to provide that care and medicine free of charge to those persons who qualify as medical indigents under the county’s criteria of eligibility for medical care.

      4.  Purchase, equip and maintain, either in connection with a limited medical facility as authorized in this section or independent therefrom, ambulances and ambulance services for the benefit of the residents of and those falling sick or being injured or maimed in the outlying areas.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 1062; A 1987, 2219; 1997, 689; 2001, 778; 2007, 1852)