General Provisions

NRS 449.030. License required to operate or maintain medical facility or facility for the dependent and to operate program of hospice care.

NRS 449.0301. Exemptions.

NRS 449.0302. Board to adopt standards, qualifications and other regulations.

NRS 449.0303. Authority of Board to require licensing of other facilities.

NRS 449.0305. Businesses that provide referrals to residential facilities for groups: License required; standards and regulations; provision of referrals; prohibited acts; civil penalties.

NRS 449.0306. Money received from licensing of facilities to be deposited in State General Fund; expenditure of state or federal money.

NRS 449.0307. Powers of Division.

NRS 449.0308. Authority of Division to collect actual cost of enforcing provisions from unlicensed medical facility or facility for the dependent; exception.

Licensing

NRS 449.040. Application for license: Filing; contents.

NRS 449.050. Fees.

NRS 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 residential care, agency to provide personal care services in home and agency to provide nursing in home; exemption; exception.

NRS 449.067. Substitute for surety required for facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups, home for individual residential care, agency to provide personal care services in home and agency to provide nursing in home.

NRS 449.068. Surety bond required for initial license and renewal of license to operate facility for refractive surgery.

NRS 449.069. Substitute for surety bond required for facility for refractive surgery.

NRS 449.080. Issuance, validity and transferability of license.

NRS 449.085. Form and contents of license.

NRS 449.087. Amendment of license required for addition of certain services; requirements for approval of amendment; revocation of approval; standards.

NRS 449.089. Expiration and renewal of license.

NRS 449.091. Provisional license.

NRS 449.092. Applicant for issuance or renewal of license for home for individual residential care to attest to knowledge of and compliance with certain guidelines concerning safe and appropriate injection practices.

NRS 449.093. Training to recognize and prevent abuse of older persons: Persons required to receive; frequency; topics; costs; actions for failure to complete.

NRS 449.094. Continuing education requirements concerning care of persons with dementia for certain employees of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and residential facilities for groups.

Background Investigations

NRS 449.119. “Facility, hospital, agency, program or home” defined.

NRS 449.121. Exemption for facility for the treatment of abuse of alcohol or drugs; exception.

NRS 449.122. Investigation of applicant for license to operate facility, hospital, agency, program or home.

NRS 449.123. Initial and periodic investigations of employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home; penalty.

NRS 449.1235. Temporary employment service prohibited from sending ineligible employee to facility, hospital, agency, program or home; temporary employment service to provide certain information regarding its employees.

NRS 449.124. Maintenance and availability of certain records regarding employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home.

NRS 449.125. Termination of employment or contract of employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home who has been convicted of certain crime; period in which to correct information regarding conviction; liability of facility, hospital, agency, program or home.

Inspections

NRS 449.131. Entry and inspection of building and premises by Division, State Fire Marshal and Chief Medical Officer.

NRS 449.132. Inspection of medical facility and facility for dependent by Division of Public and Behavioral Health and Aging and Disability Services Division.

NRS 449.133. Report of results of inspections of medical facilities and facilities for dependent by Division; disclosure of results of inspections of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and residential facilities for groups.

NRS 449.134. Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care to provide immediate notification of certain deficiencies to certain persons.

Disciplinary Action

NRS 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, investigation and disciplinary action to be provided to facility for the care of adults during the day; written report of complaints and disciplinary actions.

NRS 449.163. Administrative sanctions: Imposition by Division; disposition of money collected.

NRS 449.165. Administrative sanctions: Regulations of Board.

NRS 449.170. Denial, suspension or revocation of license or imposition of sanctions: Notice; appeal; adoption of regulations.

NRS 449.171. Authority of Division to take control over medical records of medical facility or facility for dependent upon suspension of license or cessation of operation; confidentiality; sharing of records with appropriate authorities.

NRS 449.172. Residential facility for groups: Duties of Division and operator upon suspension or revocation of license for abuse, neglect or isolation of occupants.

NRS 449.174. Additional grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license to operate certain facility, hospital, agency, program or home.

Miscellaneous Provisions

NRS 449.181. Medical facility that has custody of child pursuant to court order to adopt policy relating to medical care and medications for child; employees to receive copy of policy.

NRS 449.183. Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing and residential facility for groups to adopt written policy concerning readmission after temporary transfer of patient or resident.

NRS 449.184. Operator of residential facility for groups, facility for intermediate care or facility for skilled nursing to post certain information in conspicuous place.

NRS 449.186. Supervision of residential facility for groups.

NRS 449.187. Supervision of facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care.

NRS 449.189. Physician and nurse required to operate independent center to provide emergency medical care.

NRS 449.191. Medical facility not required to allow abortions.

NRS 449.192. Admission of dentist to membership on medical staff of hospital.

NRS 449.193. Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care to provide itemized statement of charges upon request to certain persons.

NRS 449.1935. Agency to provide personal care services in the home authorized to provide certain services to certain persons.

NRS 449.194. Certain employees of agency to provide personal care services in the home immune from civil liability resulting from rendering emergency care or assistance.

NRS 449.195. Waiver of deductible or copayment; conditions.

NRS 449.196. Requirements for program of hospice care.

NRS 449.197. Provision of care by facility for hospice care.

NRS 449.198. Requirements for obstetric center.

NRS 449.199. Residential facility for groups and homes for individual residential care prohibited from providing accommodations to persons not meeting requirements for admission; exception.

NRS 449.201. Certification required for alcohol and drug abuse programs operated or provided by facility for transitional living for released offenders.

NRS 449.202. Classification of hospitals.

NRS 449.203. Designation of hospital as primary stroke center; Division to maintain list of hospitals so designated; regulations.

NRS 449.2035. Designation of hospital as STEMI receiving center; Division to maintain list of hospitals so designated; regulations. [Effective January 1, 2014.]

NRS 449.204. Misleading name or other designation of facility prohibited.

Prohibited Acts; Penalties

NRS 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 certain other actions.

NRS 449.207. Retaliation or discrimination against employees and certain other persons: Violation; civil action for certain acts of retaliation or discrimination; damages; equitable relief; rebuttable presumption; civil penalty; time limit for bringing action.

NRS 449.208. Retaliation or discrimination against employees or certain other persons: Written notice regarding protections and legal remedies for certain acts of retaliation or discrimination; posting of notice; inclusion of notice in employee handbook.

NRS 449.209. Prohibition against medical facility or employee of medical facility making certain referrals to residential facilities for groups; civil penalties; system to track violations.

NRS 449.210. Penalties for unlicensed operation: Medical facility or facility for dependent; residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care.

NRS 449.220. Action to enjoin violations.

NRS 449.240. Institution and conduct of prosecutions.