New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing
Section 151:4 - Application for License.

Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 4. RSA 151:4. 1969, 379:3. 1977, 332:1. 1979, 399:5, 6. 1982, 44:2. 1983, 274:1; 291:1, I. 1988, 156:2-4. 1991, 365:3. 1995, 310:9, 175, 181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2016, 198:2, 3, eff. July 1, 2016. 2020, 39:65, eff. July 1, 2020; 39:68, eff. July 29, 2020.

Structure New Hampshire Revised Statutes

New Hampshire Revised Statutes

Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria

Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing

Section 151:1 - Declaration of Purposes.

Section 151:2 - License or Registration Required.

Section 151:2-b - Home Health Care Provider and Individual Home Care Service Provider.

Section 151:2-c - Prohibited Use in Corporate Name, Trade Name, or Service Mark.

Section 151:2-d - Criminal Record Check Required.

Section 151:2-e - Special Health Care Service License Required; Rules; Funding.

Section 151:2-f - Policies Required for Health Facilities and Special Health Care Service Licenses.

Section 151:2-g - Emergency Services.

Section 151:2-h - Compliance With Involuntary Admission Hearing Requirement.

Section 151:2-i - Hospital Dementia Operational Plan Required.

Section 151:3 - Existing Facilities.

Section 151:3-a - Facilities Under Construction.

Section 151:3-b - Identification Required.

Section 151:3-d - Verification of Medical Technician Registration.

Section 151:4 - Application for License.

Section 151:4-a - Requirements for Licensure Near Critical Access Hospitals.

Section 151:5 - Licenses.

Section 151:5-a - Needs Determination; Assuring Appropriate Care.

Section 151:5-b - Deemed Licensed.

Section 151:5-c - Proceedings of Residential Care Facility Quality Assurance Program; Confidentiality.

Section 151:6 - Investigations and Consultations.

Section 151:6-a - Annual Inspection.

Section 151:6-b - Report of Disciplinary Action.

Section 151:7 - Denial, Suspension or Revocation of Licenses.

Section 151:7-a - Warnings; Results of Investigations.

Section 151:8 - Rehearings and Appeals.

Section 151:8-a - Reinstatement.

Section 151:9 - Rules.

Section 151:9-a - Rules for Home Health Care Providers and Individual Home Care Service Providers.

Section 151:9-b - Immunizations by Hospitals, Residential Care Facilities, Adult Day Care Facilities, and Assisted Living Facilities.

Section 151:12 - Interpretation.

Section 151:12-a - Itemized Bills.

Section 151:12-b - Hospital Rates for Self-Pay Patients.

Section 151:12-c - Laboratory Testing Without a Licensed Medical Practitioner's Order.

Section 151:13 - Information Confidential.

Section 151:13-a - Proceedings of Hospital Committees; Confidentiality.

Section 151:13-b - Proceedings of Home Health Care Provider Quality Assurance Program; Confidentiality.

Section 151:14 - Report.

Section 151:16 - Penalties.

Section 151:16-a - Administrative Fines.

Section 151:16-b - Civil Fines.

Section 151:16-c - Health Care Provider Facilities; Disclosure of Employment Information; Immunity.

Section 151:17 - Injunction.

Section 151:18 - Disposition of Fees.

Section 151:19 - Definitions.

Section 151:20 - Facility Policy and Procedures.

Section 151:21 - Patients' Bill of Rights.

Section 151:21-b - Home Care Clients' Bill of Rights.

Section 151:22 - Patient's Personal Representative.

Section 151:23 - Retaliation Prohibited.

Section 151:24 - Patients' Trust Fund.

Section 151:25 - Temporary Absence.

Section 151:25-a - Nursing Home Facility Statement Required.

Section 151:25-b - Nursing Home Policies Regarding Notice of Vacancy.

Section 151:26 - Transfer or Discharge of Patients.

Section 151:26-a - Discharge of Home Health Care Clients.

Section 151:27 - Abuse of Facility Patients.

Section 151:28 - Access of Approved Organizations.

Section 151:29 - Posting Requirement.

Section 151:30 - Equitable and Other Relief.

Section 151:31 - Disclosure of Information; Hospitals and Physician Hospital Organizations.

Section 151:32 - Definitions.

Section 151:33 - Hospitals, End-Stage Renal Dialysis Centers, Nursing and Other Residential Care Facilities, New Hampshire Veterans' Home, Assisted Living Residences, and Ambulatory Surgical Facilities Required to Report.

Section 151:34 - Statewide Database Required.

Section 151:35 - Limitation.

Section 151:36 - Payment by Hospitals, End-Stage Renal Dialysis Centers, and Ambulatory Surgical Centers.

Section 151:37 - Definitions.

Section 151:38 - Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Centers Required to Report Adverse Events.

Section 151:39 - Commissioner's Duties and Responsibilities.

Section 151:40 - Penalties.

Section 151:41 - Controlled Substance Abuse, Misuse, and Diversion Prevention.

Section 151:42 - Definitions.

Section 151:43 - Opportunity to Designate a Caregiver.

Section 151:44 - Notice to Designated Caregiver.

Section 151:45 - Instruction to Designated Caregiver; Rulemaking.

Section 151:46 - Applicability; Limitations; Discharge or Transfer of Patient Unaffected.

Section 151:47 - Definitions.

Section 151:48 - Initial and Continuing Training in Dementia Required.

Section 151:49 - Portability.

Section 151:50 - Continuing Education.

Section 151:51 - Requirements for Trainers; Training Costs.

Section 151:52 - Departmental Oversight.

Section 151:53 - Workplace Violence Prevention Program.