NRS449.0021. “Agency to provide personal care services in the home” defined.

      1.  “Agency to provide personal care services in the home” means any person, other than a natural person, which provides in the home the services authorized pursuant to NRS 449.1935 to elderly persons or persons with disabilities.

      2.  The term does not include:

      (a) An independent contractor who provides nonmedical services specified in NRS 449.1935 without the assistance of employees;

      (b) An organized group of persons composed of the family or friends of a person needing personal care services that employs or contracts with persons to provide nonmedical services specified in NRS 449.1935 for the person if:

             (1) The organization of the group of persons is set forth in a written document that is made available for review by the Division upon request; and

             (2) The personal care services are provided to only one person or one family who resides in the same residence; or

      (c) An intermediary service organization.

      3.  As used in this section, “intermediary service organization” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.4304.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 2164; A 2007, 1225; 2009, 2399; 2013, 134)