CHAPTER 23-17
Licensing of Health Care Facilities
Index Of Sections
- § 23-17-1 Short title.
- § 23-17-2 Definitions.
- § 23-17-3 Purpose of provisions.
- § 23-17-4 License required for health care facility operation.
- § 23-17-5 Application for license.
- § 23-17-5.1 Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for initial licensure or change of ownership.
- § 23-17-5.2 Additional information required for license renewal of all nursing facilities.
- § 23-17-6 Issuance of license – Posting – Transfer – Conditions.
- § 23-17-7 Expiration and renewal of license.
- § 23-17-8 Denial, suspension, or revocation of license.
- § 23-17-8.1 Curtailment of activities.
- § 23-17-9 Judicial review of license action.
- § 23-17-10 Regulations, inspections, and investigations – Certain hospitals required to provide on-premises coverage by physician – Uniform reports – Data systems.
- § 23-17-10.1 Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations.
- § 23-17-10.2 Full financial disclosure by hospitals.
- § 23-17-10.3 Special care unit disclosure by facilities.
- § 23-17-10.4 Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care unit disclosure by facilities.
- § 23-17-10.5 Medical director and attending physician file.
- § 23-17-10.6 Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans.
- § 23-17-10.7 Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on probation or parole.
- § 23-17-11 Abortion and sterilization – Protection for nonparticipation – Procedure.
- § 23-17-12 Inspections – Nursing facilities.
- § 23-17-12.1 Scope of inspections.
- § 23-17-12.2 Time for correction of defects.
- § 23-17-12.3 Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 – 23-17-12.2.
- § 23-17-12.4 Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 – 23-17-12.2.
- § 23-17-12.5 Complaints – Nursing homes.
- § 23-17-12.6 Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager.
- § 23-17-12.7 Adverse change in financial condition.
- § 23-17-12.8 Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities.
- § 23-17-12.9 Resident and family notification.
- § 23-17-12.10 Quality predictive modeling – Established.
- § 23-17-12.11 Nursing facility quality improvement program.
- § 23-17-13 Health services council.
- § 23-17-14 Functions of health services council.
- § 23-17-14.1 Immunity for council members.
- § 23-17-14.2 Compensation.
- § 23-17-14.3 Review criteria.
- § 23-17-14.4 Procedures for review.
- § 23-17-15 Information confidential.
- § 23-17-15.1 Reports public.
- § 23-17-16 Annual report of activities.
- § 23-17-17 Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility.
- § 23-17-18 Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses.
- § 23-17-19 Injunction to restrain operation without license.
- § 23-17-19.1 Rights of patients.
- § 23-17-19.2 Posting of law.
- § 23-17-19.3 Patients' visitation rights.
- § 23-17-20 Inapplicability.
- § 23-17-21 Power of enforcement.
- § 23-17-22 Severability.
- § 23-17-23 Hospital disciplinary powers.
- § 23-17-24 Internal risk management program.
- § 23-17-25 Privileges and immunities for peer review activities.
- § 23-17-26 Emergency health care.
- § 23-17-27 Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan.
- § 23-17-28 Health care cost containment.
- § 23-17-29 Applicability.
- § 23-17-30 Blood or tissue transfer services.
- § 23-17-31 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing – Hospitals.
- § 23-17-31.1 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing – Facilities for drug users.
- § 23-17-32 Mammograms – Quality assurance standards.
- § 23-17-33 Pap smears – Quality assurance standards.
- § 23-17-34 Criminal records review – Nursing facilities – Home nursing care providers and home care providers.
- § 23-17-35 Prior criminal records checks.
- § 23-17-36 Rules and regulations.
- § 23-17-37 Disqualifying information.
- § 23-17-38 Establishment of fees.
- § 23-17-38.1 Hospitals – Licensing fee.
- § 23-17-39 Immunity from liability.
- § 23-17-40 Hospital events reporting.
- § 23-17-41 Employer/employee relationships.
- § 23-17-42 Home nursing care providers – Uncompensated care provisions.
- § 23-17-43 Charity care requirements.
- § 23-17-44 Moratorium on new initial nursing facility licensed beds and on increases to the licensed capacity of existing nursing facility licenses.
- § 23-17-45 Quality standards for volume related tertiary services.
- § 23-17-46 Financial interest disclosure.
- § 23-17-47 Identification badges.
- § 23-17-48 Labor disputes/actions.
- § 23-17-49 Surgical procedures – General provisions.
- § 23-17-50 Physician ambulatory surgery center – Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.
- § 23-17-51 Magnetic resonance imaging – Quality assurance standards.
- § 23-17-52 Department of health concern line.
- § 23-17-53 Physician contracts.
- § 23-17-54 Provisions of interpreter services.
- § 23-17-55 Severability.
- § 23-17-56 School based health centers – Special requirements and exceptions.
- § 23-17-57 Podiatry ambulatory surgery center – Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.
- § 23-17-58 Documentation of pre-hospital exposure of emergency medical services workers.
- § 23-17-59 Safe patient handling.