Section 144.572 — Institutions Excepted.
144.572 INSTITUTIONS EXCEPTED. No rule nor requirement shall be made, nor standard established under sections 144.50 to 144.56 for any sanitarium conducted by and for the adherents of any recognized church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing care and treatment for those who select and depend upon spiritual means through prayer alone, in […]
Section 144.554 — Health Facilities Construction Plan Submittal And Fees.
144.554 HEALTH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION PLAN SUBMITTAL AND FEES. For hospitals, nursing homes, boarding care homes, residential hospices, supervised living facilities, freestanding outpatient surgical centers, and end-stage renal disease facilities, the commissioner shall collect a fee for the review and approval of architectural, mechanical, and electrical plans and specifications submitted before construction begins for each project […]
Section 144.555 — Facility Or Campus Closings, Relocating Services, Or Ceasing To Offer Certain Services; Patient Relocations.
144.555 FACILITY OR CAMPUS CLOSINGS, RELOCATING SERVICES, OR CEASING TO OFFER CERTAIN SERVICES; PATIENT RELOCATIONS. Subdivision 1. Notice of closing or curtailing operations; facilities other than hospitals. If a facility licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.56, other than a hospital, voluntarily plans to cease operations or to curtail operations to the extent that patients or […]
Section 144.56 — Standards.
144.56 STANDARDS. Subdivision 1. Commissioner’s powers. The state commissioner of health shall, in the manner prescribed by law, adopt and enforce reasonable rules and standards under sections 144.50 to 144.56 which the commissioner finds to be necessary and in the public interests and may rescind or modify them from time to time as may be […]
Section 144.561 — Description Of Certain Medical Facilities.
144.561 DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN MEDICAL FACILITIES. Subdivision 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following words have the meanings given to them: (a) “Person” means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, state, county or local governmental unit or a division, department, board or agency of a governmental unit. (b) “Medical facility” means an institution, office, […]
Section 144.562 — Swing Bed Approval; Issuance Of License Conditions.
144.562 SWING BED APPROVAL; ISSUANCE OF LICENSE CONDITIONS. Subdivision 1. Definition. For the purposes of this section, “swing bed” means a hospital bed licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.56 that has been granted a license condition under this section and which has been certified to participate in the federal Medicare program under United States Code, […]
Section 144.563 — Nursing Services Provided In A Hospital; Prohibited Practices.
144.563 NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN A HOSPITAL; PROHIBITED PRACTICES. A hospital that has been granted a license condition under section 144.562 must not provide to patients not reimbursed by Medicare or medical assistance the types of services that would be usually and customarily provided and reimbursed under medical assistance or Medicare as services of a […]
Section 144.564 — Monitoring Of Subacute Or Transitional Care Services.
144.564 MONITORING OF SUBACUTE OR TRANSITIONAL CARE SERVICES. Subdivision 1. Hospital data. The commissioner of health shall monitor the provision of subacute or transitional care services provided in hospitals. All hospitals providing these services must report statistical data on the extent and utilization of these services on forms supplied by the commissioner. The data must […]
Section 144.565 — Diagnostic Imaging Facilities.
144.565 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING FACILITIES. Subdivision 1. Utilization and services data; economic and financial interests. The commissioner shall require diagnostic imaging facilities and providers of diagnostic imaging services in Minnesota to report by March 1 each year for the preceding fiscal year to the commissioner, in the form and manner specified by the commissioner: (1) utilization […]
Section 144.52 — Application.
144.52 APPLICATION. Any person, partnership, association, or corporation, including state, county, or local governmental units, or any division, department, board, or agency thereof, desiring a license under sections 144.50 to 144.56 shall file with the state commissioner of health a verified application containing the name of the applicant desiring said license; whether such persons so […]