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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 healthcare 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Repealed.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.