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Title 23 - Health and Safety
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Chapter 23-17 Licensing of Health-Care Facilities
Chapter 23-17 Licensing of Health-Care Facilities
Section 23-17-1 Short title.
Section 23-17-2 Definitions.
Section 23-17-3 Purpose of provisions.
Section 23-17-4 License required for health-care facility operation.
Section 23-17-5 Application for license.
Section 23-17-5.1 Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for initial licensure or change of ownership.
Section 23-17-5.2 Additional information required for license renewal of all nursing facilities.
Section 23-17-6 Issuance of license - Posting - Transfer - Conditions.
Section 23-17-7 Expiration and renewal of license.
Section 23-17-8 Denial, suspension, or revocation of license.
Section 23-17-8.1 Curtailment of activities.
Section 23-17-9 Judicial review of license action.
Section 23-17-10 Regulations, inspections, and investigations - Certain hospitals required to provide on-premises coverage by physician - Uniform reports - Data systems.
Section 23-17-10.1 Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations.
Section 23-17-10.2 Full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding, emergency-care facilities.
Section 23-17-10.3 Special care unit disclosure by facilities.
Section 23-17-10.4 Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care unit disclosure by facilities.
Section 23-17-10.5 Medical director and attending physician file.
Section 23-17-10.6 Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans.
Section 23-17-10.7 Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on probation or parole.
Section 23-17-11 Abortion and sterilization - Protection for nonparticipation - Procedure.
Section 23-17-12 Inspections - Nursing facilities.
Section 23-17-12.1 Scope of inspections.
Section 23-17-12.2 Time for correction of defects.
Section 23-17-12.3 Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 - 23-17-12.2.
Section 23-17-12.4 Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 - 23-17-12.2.
Section 23-17-12.5 Complaints - Nursing homes.
Section 23-17-12.6 Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager.
Section 23-17-12.7 Adverse change in financial condition.
Section 23-17-12.8 Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities.
Section 23-17-12.9 Resident and family notification.
Section 23-17-12.10 Quality predictive modeling - Established.
Section 23-17-12.11 Nursing facility quality improvement program.
Section 23-17-13 Repealed.
Section 23-17-13.1 Health services council.
Section 23-17-14 Functions of health services council.
Section 23-17-14.1 Immunity for council members.
Section 23-17-14.2 Compensation.
Section 23-17-14.3 Review criteria.
Section 23-17-14.4 Procedures for review.
Section 23-17-15 Information confidential.
Section 23-17-15.1 Reports public.
Section 23-17-16 Annual report of activities.
Section 23-17-17 Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility.
Section 23-17-18 Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses.
Section 23-17-19 Injunction to restrain operation without license.
Section 23-17-19.1 Rights of patients.
Section 23-17-19.2 Posting of law.
Section 23-17-19.3 Patients' visitation rights.
Section 23-17-20 Inapplicability.
Section 23-17-21 Power of enforcement.
Section 23-17-22 Severability.
Section 23-17-23 Hospital disciplinary powers.
Section 23-17-24 Internal risk management program.
Section 23-17-25 Privileges and immunities for peer review activities.
Section 23-17-26 Emergency health care.
Section 23-17-27 Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan.
Section 23-17-28 Health care cost containment.
Section 23-17-29 Applicability.
Section 23-17-30 Blood or tissue transfer services.
Section 23-17-31 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing - Hospitals.
Section 23-17-31.1 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing - Facilities for drug users.
Section 23-17-32 Mammograms - Quality assurance standards.
Section 23-17-33 Pap smears - Quality assurance standards.
Section 23-17-34 Criminal records review - Nursing facilities - Home nursing-care providers and home-care providers.
Section 23-17-35 Prior criminal records checks.
Section 23-17-36 Rules and regulations.
Section 23-17-37 Disqualifying information.
Section 23-17-38 Establishment of fees.
Section 23-17-38.1 Hospitals - Licensing fee.
Section 23-17-39 Immunity from liability.
Section 23-17-40 Hospital and freestanding, emergency-care facility events reporting.
Section 23-17-41 Employer/employee relationships.
Section 23-17-42 Home nursing care providers - Uncompensated care provisions.
Section 23-17-43 Charity care requirements.
Section 23-17-44 Moratorium on new initial nursing-facility licensed beds and on increases to the licensed capacity of existing nursing-facility licenses.
Section 23-17-45 Quality standards for volume related tertiary services.
Section 23-17-46 Financial interest disclosure.
Section 23-17-47 Identification badges.
Section 23-17-48 Labor disputes/actions.
Section 23-17-49 Surgical procedures - General provisions.
Section 23-17-49.1 Workplace and patient safety - Evacuation of surgical smoke plume required in operating rooms.
Section 23-17-50 Physician ambulatory-surgery center - Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.
Section 23-17-51 Magnetic resonance imaging - Quality assurance standards.
Section 23-17-52 Department of health concern line.
Section 23-17-53 Physician contracts.
Section 23-17-54 Provisions of interpreter services.
Section 23-17-55 Severability.
Section 23-17-56 School based health centers - Special requirements and exceptions.
Section 23-17-57 Podiatry ambulatory-surgery center - Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions.
Section 23-17-58 Documentation of pre-hospital and pre-freestanding, emergency-care facility exposure of emergency medical services workers.
Section 23-17-59 Safe patient handling.
Section 23-17-60 Compilation and publication of the charges for common hospital procedures.
Section 23-17-61 Written estimates for hospital medical services.
Section 23-17-62 Criminal records review - Long-term care hospital.
Section 23-17-63 Patient safety - Circulating nurses required in operating rooms.
Section 23-17-64 Influenza immunization.