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 23-17-4.1 - Rules and regulations for school-based health centers
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 Sections 23-17-12 - 23-17-12.2
Section 23-17-12.4 - Enforcement of Sections 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Section 23-17-13 - [Repealed]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
Section 23-17-65 - Transparency of ownership in healthcare facilities
Section 23-17-66 - Protocols for the early recognition and treatment of patients with sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock
Section 23-17-67 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Hospital determinations for medicare and medicaid for uninsured patients