Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.001
Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 449.0015 to 449.0195, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 449 — Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities
Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 449 · 272 active provisions
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0015
“Agency to provide nursing in the home” defined
1. “Agency to provide nursing in the home” means any person or governmental organization which provides in the home, through its employees or by contractual arrangement with other persons, skilled nursing and assistance and training in health and housekeeping skills. 2. The term does not include: (a) A provider of comm…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0021
“Agency to provide personal care services in the home” defined
Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0025
“Board” defined
“Board” means the State Board of Health.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0026
“Community-based living arrangement services” defined
1. “Community-based living arrangement services” means flexible, individualized services, including, without limitation, training and habilitation services, that are: (a) Provided in the home, for compensation, to persons with mental illness who are served by the Division or any other entity; and (b) Designed and coord…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0027
Community health worker” defined
“Community health worker” means a natural person who: 1. Lives in or otherwise has a connection to the community in which he or she provides services. 2. Is trained by a provider of health care to provide certain services which do not require the community health worker to be licensed. 3. Provides services at the direc…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0028
Community health worker pool” defined
“Community health worker pool” means a person or agency which provides, for compensation and through its employees or by contract with community health workers, the services of community health workers to any natural person, medical facility or facility for the dependent. The term does not include an independent contra…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0031
“Community triage center” defined
“Community triage center” means a facility that provides on a 24-hour basis medical assessments of and short-term monitoring services for persons with mental illness and persons with alcohol or other substance use disorders in a manner which does not require that the assessments and services be provided in a licensed h…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0032
“Division” defined
“Division” means the Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the Nevada Health Authority.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.00325
“Employment agency” defined
Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0033
“Facility for hospice care” defined
“Facility for hospice care” means a facility which is operated to provide hospice care.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.0038
“Facility for intermediate care” defined
“Facility for intermediate care” means an establishment operated and maintained to provide 24-hour personal and medical supervision, for a person who does not have illness, disease, injury or other condition that would require the degree of care and treatment which a hospital or facility for skilled nursing is designed…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.00385
“Facility for modified medical detoxification” defined
“Facility for modified medical detoxification” means a facility that provides 24-hour medical monitoring of treatment and detoxification in a manner which does not require that the service be provided in a licensed hospital.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 evaluation of those patients, the surgical treatment of those patients and the postoperative care…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 and whose primary need is the availability of such care on a continuous basis. 2. “Facility fo…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 include a recovery house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 transitional living for released offenders; 5. A home for individual residential care; 6. A com…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 restoration, of persons with alcohol or other substance use disorders. It does not include a medical facility or services offered by volu…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 irreversible renal impairment to perform dialysis for himself or herself.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 with reintegration into the community, other than such a residence that is operated or maintained by a state or local go…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 place of residence of the person giving birth to a child.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.008
“Halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders” defined
[Replaced in revision by NRS 449.0166.]
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 with physical disabilities or who are aged or infirm, unless the persons receiving those services ar…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 spiritual care for persons who are terminally ill and their families. The ca…
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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 medical laboratory and medical, radiological, dietary and pharmaceutical s…
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