Title 40

NRS 449.00387 “Facility for refractive surgery” defined. 1. “Facility for refractive surgery” means a freestanding facility that provides limited medical services relating to surgical treatments for patients with refractive errors of the eye, including the preoperative care and e…

NRS 449.0039 “Facility for skilled nursing” defined. 1. “Facility for skilled nursing” means an establishment which provides inpatient continuous skilled nursing and related care as prescribed by a physician to a patient in the facility who is not in an acute episode of illness a…

NRS 449.004 “Facility for the care of adults during the day” defined. “Facility for the care of adults during the day” means an establishment operated and maintained to provide care during the day on a temporary or permanent basis for aged or infirm persons. The term does not inc…

NRS 449.0045 “Facility for the dependent” defined. “Facility for the dependent” includes: 1. A facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders; 2. A facility for the care of adults during the day; 3. A residential facility for groups; 4. A facility for tran…

NRS 449.00455 “Facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders” defined. “Facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders” means any public or private establishment which provides residential treatment, including mental and physical r…

NRS 449.0046 “Facility for the treatment of irreversible renal disease” defined. “Facility for the treatment of irreversible renal disease” means a facility that is not part of a hospital and which provides peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis or trains a person with a permanent i…

NRS 449.0055 “Facility for transitional living for released offenders” defined. 1. “Facility for transitional living for released offenders” means a residence that provides housing and a living environment for persons who have been released from prison and who require assistance …

NRS 449.0065 “Freestanding birthing center” defined. “Freestanding birthing center” means a facility that provides maternity care and birthing services using a family-centered approach in which births are planned to occur in a location similar to a residence that is not the usual…

NRS 449.008 “Halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders” defined. [Replaced in revision by NRS 449.0166.]

NRS 449.0105 “Home for individual residential care” defined. “Home for individual residential care” means a home in which a natural person furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision, for compensation, to not more than two persons with intellectual disabilities or…

NRS 449.0115 “Hospice care” defined. 1. “Hospice care” means a centrally administered program of palliative services and supportive services provided by an interdisciplinary team directed by a physician. The program includes the provision of physical, psychological, custodial and…

NRS 449.012 “Hospital” defined. “Hospital” means an establishment for the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness, including care available 24 hours each day from persons licensed to practice professional nursing who are under the direction of a physician, services of a me…

NRS 449.013 “Independent center for emergency medical care” defined. “Independent center for emergency medical care” means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a hospital, which provides limited services for the treatment of a medical emergency. (Added to NRS by 19…

NRS 449.0145 “Licensed practical nurse” defined. “Licensed practical nurse” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 632.016. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1517)

NRS 449.0151 “Medical facility” defined. “Medical facility” includes: 1. A surgical center for ambulatory patients; 2. A freestanding birthing center; 3. An independent center for emergency medical care; 4. An agency to provide nursing in the home; 5. A facility for intermediate …

NRS 449.01513 “Medication aide - certified” defined. “Medication aide - certified” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 632.0165. (Added to NRS by 2011, 1337)

NRS 449.01515 “Mobile unit” defined. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, “mobile unit” means a motor vehicle that is specially designed, constructed and equipped to provide any of the medical services provided by a medical facility described in subsections 1 to 13, i…

NRS 449.01517 “Nonmedical services related to personal care to elderly persons or persons with disabilities” defined. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)

NRS 449.0152 “Nursing assistant” defined. “Nursing assistant” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 632.0166. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1517)

NRS 449.0153 “Nursing pool” defined. 1. “Nursing pool” means a person or agency which provides for compensation, through its employees or by contractual arrangement with other persons, nursing services to any natural person, medical facility or facility for the dependent. 2. The …

NRS 449.0156 “Palliative services” defined. “Palliative services” means services and treatments directed toward the control of pain and symptoms which provide the greatest degree of relief for the longest period while minimizing any adverse effects of the services and treatments,…

NRS 449.0157 “Provider of health care” defined. “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031. (Added to NRS by 1995, 1600)

NRS 449.0159 “Provider of supported living arrangement services” defined. “Provider of supported living arrangement services” means a natural person who or a partnership, firm, corporation, association, state or local government or agency thereof that has been issued a certificat…

NRS 449.0165 “Psychiatric hospital” defined. “Psychiatric hospital” means a hospital for the diagnosis, care and treatment of mental illness which provides 24-hour care. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735; A 2017, 1895)

NRS 449.0166 “Recovery house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders” defined. “Recovery house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 278.023757. (Added to NRS by 2001, 2518; A 2005,…

NRS 449.0167 “Registered nurse” defined. “Registered nurse” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 632.019. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1517)

NRS 449.0168 “Rehabilitative residential mental health care” defined. “Rehabilitative residential mental health care” means community-based, medically monitored care provided in a residential setting that uses established rehabilitative principles to: 1. Promote the recovery of t…

NRS 449.017 “Residential facility for groups” defined. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, “residential facility for groups” means an establishment that furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision to a person with an intellectual disability or with a …

NRS 449.0175 “Rural clinic” defined. “Rural clinic” means a facility located in an area that is not designated as an urban area by the Bureau of the Census, where medical services are provided by a physician assistant licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS or an advanced …

NRS 449.0177 “Rural hospital” defined. “Rural hospital” means a hospital with 85 or fewer beds which is: 1. The sole institutional provider of health care located within a county whose population is less than 100,000; 2. The sole institutional provider of health care located with…

NRS 449.0178 “Rural emergency hospital” defined. “Rural emergency hospital” means a hospital that is a rural emergency hospital, as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1395x(kkk). (Added to NRS by 2023, 2931)

NRS 449.0179 “Senior living community” defined. “Senior living community” means: 1. A home for individual residential care, residential facility for groups, facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, assisted living facility or retirement home or village that p…

NRS 449.0181 “Senior living community referral agency” defined. “Senior living community referral agency” means a person who refers persons who are aged to senior living communities for a fee paid by the senior living community, the person who is aged or the representative of suc…

NRS 449.0184 “Statewide Central Registry” defined. “Statewide Central Registry” means the Statewide Central Registry for the Collection of Information Concerning the Abuse or Neglect of a Child established by NRS 432.100. (Added to NRS by 2025, 152)

NRS 449.0185 “Supported living arrangement services” defined. “Supported living arrangement services” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 435.007. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1379; A 2025, 1671)

NRS 449.019 “Surgical center for ambulatory patients” defined. “Surgical center for ambulatory patients” means a facility with limited medical services available for diagnosis or treatment of patients by surgery where the patients’ recovery, in the opinion of the surgeon, will no…

NRS 449.0195 “Terminally ill” defined. “Terminally ill” means a medical diagnosis made by a physician that a person has an anticipated life expectancy of not more than 12 months. (Added to NRS by 2005, 485) LICENSING AND REGULATION General Provisions

NRS 449.029 “Medical facility” further defined. As used in NRS 449.029 to 449.240, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “medical facility” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0151 and includes a program of hospice care described in NRS 449.196. (Added to NRS by…

NRS 449.030 License required to operate or maintain medical facility or facility for the dependent. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.03013, no person, state or local government or agency thereof may operate or maintain in this State any medical facility or facility for the…

NRS 449.03005 License to operate employment agency that contracts with persons in State to provide certain nonmedical services; standards and regulations; licensed employment agency prohibited from making certain referrals; civil penalty. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of N…

NRS 449.03008 Petition to determine if criminal history will disqualify person from obtaining license; fee; posting of requirements for license and list of disqualifying crimes on Internet; report. 1. The Division shall develop and implement a process by which a person with a cri…

NRS 449.0301 Exemptions. The provisions of NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, do not apply to: 1. Any facility conducted by and for the adherents of any church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing facilities for the care and treatment of the sick who depend sol…

NRS 449.03013 Facility for the dependent, medical facility or agency to provide personal care services in the home that employs community health workers not required to obtain additional license. 1. A person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter as a facility for the dependent…

NRS 449.03017 Person otherwise licensed under this chapter exempt from requirement to obtain license to operate employment agency that contracts with persons to provide certain nonmedical services. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)

NRS 449.0302 Board to adopt standards, qualifications and other regulations. 1. The Board shall adopt: (a) Licensing standards for each class of medical facility or facility for the dependent covered by NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, and for programs of hospice care. (b) Reg…

NRS 449.0303 Authority of Board to require licensing of other facilities. The Board may adopt regulations requiring the licensing of a facility other than those required to be licensed pursuant to NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, if the: 1. Facility provides any type of medica…