449.0039 - “Facility for skilled nursing” defined.

449.0039  “Facility for skilled nursing” defined.

      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” does not include a facility which meets the requirements of a general or any other special hospital.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 1279; A 1985, 1738)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 449.018)