449.700 - Facility or home to provide necessary services or arrange for transfer of patient; explanation of need for transfer and alternatives available. - Nevada Statutes

449.700  Facility or home to provide necessary services or arrange for transfer of patient; explanation of need for transfer and alternatives available.

      1.  Every medical facility, facility for the dependent and home for individual residential care must provide the services necessary to treat properly a patient in a particular case or must be able to arrange the transfer of the patient to another facility or home which can provide that care.

      2.  A patient may be transferred to another facility or home only if the patient has received an explanation of the need to transfer the patient and the alternatives available, unless the condition of the patient necessitates an immediate transfer to a facility for a higher level of care and the patient is unable to understand the explanation.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 820; A 1985, 1747; 1999, 1051)