Health Care Facilities and Regulations

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​Health Care Facilities Regulations/Statutes

Title 902

Chapter 11 Medical Laboratories

• 010 Application for licensure; fee
• 020 Reports and standards of health and safety
• 030 Personnel standards
• 035 Proficiency test procedures
• 040 Specialty test procedure
• 045 Test and specimen records
• 050 Equipment, methods, and samples

Chapter 20 Health Services and Facilities

• 008 License procedures and fee schedule
• 009 Facility specifications; hospitals
• 012 Hospital examination services
• 016 Hospitals; operations and services
• 018 Operation and services; renal dialysis facilities
• 066 Operation and services; adult day health care programs
• 073 Clinics: ambulatory care
• 074 Operation and Services: outpatient health care center
• 078 Operations and services; group homes
• 081 Operations and services; home health agencies
• 091 Facilities specifications, operation and services; community mental health-mental retardation center
• 101 Facility specifications; ambulatory surgical center
• 106 Operation and services; ambulatory surgical center
• 111 Medical detoxification services
• 140 Operation and services; hospice
• 150 Alternative birth centers
• 160 Chemical dependency treatment services and facility specifications
• 170 Facility specifications; psychiatric hospitals
• 180 Psychiatric hospitals; operation and services
• 200 Tuberculosis testing in long-term care facilities
• 230 Comprehensive physical rehabilitation hospital; facility specifications
• 240 Comprehensive physical rehabilitation hospital services
• 260 Hospital-owned pain management clinics
• 275 Freestanding or mobile technology
• 280 Standards for prescribed pediatric extended care
• 320 Psychiatric residential treatment facility operation and services
• 330 Psychiatric residential treatment facilities
• 360 Abortion facilities
• 370 Operation and services; private duty nursing agencies
• 380 Operation and services; residential hospice facilities
• 390 Paid feeding assistants
• 410 Specialty intermediate care clinic
• 420 Pain management Facilities
• 430 Behavioral Health Services Organization
• 440 Residential Crisis Stabilization Unit
• 450 Ambulatory Infusion Agencies

Title 906

Cabinet for Health and Family Services 
Office of the Inspector General

Chapter 1 Office of Inspector General

• 040 Blood establishment inspection
• 100 Nurse aide abuse registry, home health aide abuse registry, and hearing procedures
• 110 Critical access hospital services
• 120 Informal dispute resolution
• 180 Operation and services; personal services agencies

Title 908

Cabinet for Health and Family Services 
Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services

Chapter 1 Substance Abuse

• 370 Licensing procedures and standards for persons and agencies operating nonmedical- and nonhospital-based
• 372 Licensure of residential alcohol and other drug treatment entities
• 374 Licensure of nonhospital-based outpatient alcohol and other drug treatment entities
• 380 Licensing procedures and standards for the operation of alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs