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. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1278; A 1975, 366, 897; 1977, 641; 1979, 160, 1113; 1983, 1657; 1985, 1736; 1989, 304, 1034, 1037; 1993, 2556; […]
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 community-based living arrangement services during […]
1. “Agency to provide personal care services in the home” means any person, other than a natural person, which provides in the home the services authorized pursuant to NRS 449.1935 to elderly persons or persons with disabilities. 2. The term does not include: (a) An independent contractor who provides nonmedical services specified in NRS 449.1935 […]
“Board” means the State Board of Health. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735)
“Community-based living arrangement services” means flexible, individualized services, including, without limitation, training and habilitation services, that are: 1. Provided in the home, for compensation, to persons with mental illness who are served by the Division or any other entity; and 2. Designed and coordinated to assist such persons in maximizing their independence. (Added to NRS […]
“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 […]
“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 contractor who personally provides the services of […]
“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 hospital. (Added to NRS by […]
“Division” means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3055)
“Employment agency” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 611.020. (Added to NRS by 2017, 1569)
“Facility for hospice care” means a facility which is operated to provide hospice care. (Added to NRS by 1999, 248)
“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 to provide. (Added to NRS by […]
“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. (Added to NRS by 1999, 969)
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 and evaluation of those patients. 2. As used in this […]
1. “Facility for skilled nursing” means an establishment which provides 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 for skilled nursing” […]
“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 halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders. (Added to NRS by 1983, […]
“Facility for the dependent” includes: 1. A facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders; 2. A halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders; 3. A facility for the care of adults during the day; 4. A residential facility for groups; 5. An agency to provide personal […]
“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 volunteers or voluntary organizations. (Added to NRS by 1975, […]
“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. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735)
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 government or an agency thereof. […]
