STATE STATUTES & CODES

NEVADA STATUTES AND CODES

LICENSING, REGULATION AND INSPECTION

• 449.001 - Definitions.
• 449.0015 - “Agency to provide nursing in the home” defined.
• 449.0021 - “Agency to provide personal care services in the home” defined.
• 449.0025 - “Board” defined.
• 449.0031 - “Community triage center” defined.
• 449.0033 - “Facility for hospice care” defined.
• 449.0038 - “Facility for intermediate care” defined.
• 449.00385 - “Facility for modified medical detoxification” defined.
• 449.00387 - “Facility for refractive surgery” defined.
• 449.0039 - “Facility for skilled nursing” defined.
• 449.004 - “Facility for the care of adults during the day” defined.
• 449.0045 - “Facility for the dependent” defined.
• 449.00455 - “Facility for the treatment of abuse of alcohol or drugs” defined.
• 449.0046 - “Facility for the treatment of irreversible renal disease” defined.
• 449.0055 - “Facility for transitional living for released offenders” defined.
• 449.008 - “Halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers” defined.
• 449.009 - “Health Division” defined.
• 449.0105 - “Home for individual residential care” defined.
• 449.0115 - “Hospice care” defined.
• 449.012 - “Hospital” defined.
• 449.013 - “Independent center for emergency medical care” defined.
• 449.0145 - “Licensed practical nurse” defined.
• 449.0151 - “Medical facility” defined.
• 449.01515 - “Mobile unit” defined.
• 449.0152 - “Nursing assistant” defined.
• 449.0153 - “Nursing pool” defined.
• 449.0155 - “Obstetric center” defined.
• 449.0156 - “Palliative services” defined.
• 449.0157 - “Provider of health care” defined.
• 449.0159 - “Provider of supported living arrangement services” defined.
• 449.0165 - “Psychiatric hospital” defined.
• 449.0167 - “Registered nurse” defined.
• 449.017 - “Residential facility for groups” defined.
• 449.0175 - “Rural clinic” defined.
• 449.0177 - “Rural hospital” defined.
• 449.0185 - “Supported living arrangement services” defined.
• 449.019 - “Surgical center for ambulatory patients” defined.
• 449.0195 - “Terminally ill” defined.
• 449.021 - Classification of hospitals.
• 449.026 - Misleading name or other designation of facility prohibited.
• 449.030 - License required to operate or maintain facility or to operate program of hospice care.
• 449.0305 - Businesses that provide referrals to residential facilities for groups: License required; standards and regulations; provision of referrals; prohibited acts; civil penalties.
• 449.031 - Requirements for program of hospice care.
• 449.0315 - Provision of care by facility for hospice care.
• 449.032 - Admission of dentist to membership on medical staff of hospital.
• 449.034 - Physician and nurse required to operate independent center to provide emergency medical care.
• 449.035 - Supervision of facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care.
• 449.0355 - Supervision of residential facility for groups.
• 449.03555 - Residential facility for groups and homes for individual residential care prohibited from providing accommodations to persons not meeting requirements for admission; exception.
• 449.0356 - Certification required for alcohol and drug abuse programs operated or provided by facility for transitional living for released offenders.
• 449.0357 - Continuing education requirements concerning care of persons with dementia for certain employees of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and residential faciliti
• 449.036 - Requirements for obstetric center.
• 449.037 - Adoption of standards, qualifications and other regulations.
• 449.038 - Regulation of other facilities.
• 449.040 - Application for license: Filing; contents.
• 449.050 - Fees; exemption.
• 449.060 - Expiration and renewal of license.
• 449.063 - “Older patient” defined.
• 449.065 - Surety bond for initial license and renewal of license to operate facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups, home for individual residenti
• 449.067 - Substitute for surety required for facility described in NRS 449.065
• 449.068 - Surety bond required for initial license and renewal of license to operate facility for refractive surgery.
• 449.069 - Substitute for surety bond required for facility described in NRS 449.068
• 449.070 - Facilities exempt from NRS 449.001
• 449.080 - License: Issuance; validity; transferability.
• 449.085 - License: Form; contents.
• 449.087 - License: Amendment required for addition of certain services.
• 449.091 - Provisional license.
• 449.095 - Operator of residential facility for groups: Posting of license and rates for services.
• 449.140 - Money received from licensing of facilities to be deposited in State General Fund; expenditure of state or federal money.
• 449.150 - Powers of Health Division.
• 449.160 - Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license; revocation of license in connection with certain nuisance activity; log of complaints; information concerning complaint, investigatio
• 449.163 - Administrative sanctions: Imposition by Health Division; disposition of money collected.
• 449.165 - Administrative sanctions: Regulations of Board.
• 449.170 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license or imposition of sanctions: Notice; appeal; adoption of regulations.
• 449.171 - Authority of Health Division to take control over medical records of medical facility or facility for dependent upon suspension of license or cessation of operation; confidentiality; sharing
• 449.172 - Residential facility for groups: Duties of Health Division and operator upon suspension or revocation of license for abuse, neglect or isolation of occupants.
• 449.173 - Applicability of provisions governing investigation and consequences of criminal history of certain persons.
• 449.176 - Investigation of criminal history of applicant for license to operate certain facility, agency or home.
• 449.179 - Initial and periodic investigations of criminal history of employee or independent contractor of certain agency, facility or home.
• 449.182 - Maintenance and availability of certain records regarding employee or independent contractor of certain agency, facility or home.
• 449.185 - Termination of employment or contract of employee or independent contractor of certain agency, facility or home who has been convicted of certain crime; liability of agency, facility or home
• 449.188 - Additional grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license to operate certain facility, home or agency.
• 449.191 - Medical facility not required to allow abortions.
• 449.195 - Waiver of deductible or copayment; conditions.
• 449.200 - Report of results of inspections of medical facilities and facilities for dependent; disclosure of results of inspections of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care
• 449.205 - Retaliation or discrimination against employees and certain other persons: Prohibition under certain circumstances; medical facility prohibited from restricting right to make report or take
• 449.207 - Retaliation or discrimination against employees and certain other persons: Violation of NRS 449.205
• 449.208 - Retaliation or discrimination against employees or certain other persons: Written notice regarding protections and legal remedies; posting; inclusion in employee handbook.
• 449.210 - Penalties for unlicensed operation: Medical facility or facility for dependent; residential facility for groups.
• 449.220 - Action to enjoin violations.
• 449.230 - Entry and inspection of building and premises.
• 449.235 - Inspection of medical facility and facility for dependent by Health Division and Aging and Disability Services Division.

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