A nursing home may, pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the department of social and health services, offer out-patient services to persons who are not otherwise patients at such nursing home. Any certified nursing home offering out-patient services may receive payments from the federal medicare program for such services as are permissible under that program.
Out-patient services may include any health or social care needs, except surgery, that could feasibly be offered on an out-patient basis.
[1973 1st ex.s. c 71 § 1.]