135C.12 - CONDITIONAL OPERATION.
135C.12 CONDITIONAL OPERATION.
If the department has the authority under section 135C.10 to deny,
suspend or revoke a license, the department or director may, as an
alternative to those actions:
1. Apply to the district court of the county in which the
licensee's health care facility is located for appointment by the
court of a receiver for the facility pursuant to section 135C.30.
2. Conditionally issue or continue a license dependent upon the
performance by the licensee of reasonable conditions within a
reasonable period of time as set by the department so as to permit
the licensee to commence or continue the operation of the health care
facility pending full compliance with this chapter or the regulations
or minimum standards promulgated under this chapter. If the licensee
does not make diligent efforts to comply with the conditions
prescribed, the department may, under the proceedings prescribed by
this chapter, suspend or revoke the license. No health care facility
shall be operated on a conditional license for more than one year.
3. The department, in evaluating corrections of deficiencies in a
facility in receivership or operating on a conditional license, may
determine what is satisfactory compliance, provided that in so doing
it shall employ established criteria which shall be uniformly applied
to all facilities of the same license category. Section History: Early Form
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135C.12]
Referred to in § 135C.30
For legislative intent regarding imposition of a conditional
license if failure of full compliance will result in single class I
citation that is not an immediate jeopardy; see 99 Acts, ch 199, §10