Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Healthcare Facilities

Section 23-17-4.1. - Rules and regulations for school-based health centers. - § 23-17-4.1. Rules and regulations for school-based health centers. (a)...

Section 23-17-5. - Application for license. - § 23-17-5. Application for license. An application for a license...

Section 23-17-5.1. - Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for initial licensure or change of ownership. - § 23-17-5.1. Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for...

Section 23-17-5.2. - Additional information required for license renewal of all nursing facilities. - § 23-17-5.2. Additional information required for license renewal of all...

Section 23-17-6. - Issuance of license — Posting — Transfer — Conditions. - § 23-17-6. Issuance of license — Posting — Transfer —...

Section 23-17-7. - Expiration and renewal of license. - § 23-17-7. Expiration and renewal of license. A license, unless...

Section 23-17-8. - Denial, suspension, or revocation of license. - § 23-17-8. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license. The licensing...

Section 23-17-8.1. - Curtailment of activities. - § 23-17-8.1. Curtailment of activities. Whenever the director determines that...

Section 23-17-9. - Judicial review of license action. - § 23-17-9. Judicial review of license action. Any person who...

Section 23-17-10. - Regulations, inspections, and investigations — Certain hospitals required to provide on-premises coverage by physician — Uniform reports — Data systems. - § 23-17-10. Regulations, inspections, and investigations — Certain hospitals required...

Section 23-17-10.1. - Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations. - § 23-17-10.1. Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations. Any health...

Section 23-17-10.2. - Full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding emergency-care facilities. - § 23-17-10.2. Full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding emergency-care...

Section 23-17-10.3. - Special care unit disclosure by facilities. - § 23-17-10.3. Special care unit disclosure by facilities. (a) Any...

Section 23-17-10.4. - Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care unit disclosure by facilities. - § 23-17-10.4. Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care...

Section 23-17-10.5. - Medical director and attending physician file. - § 23-17-10.5. Medical director and attending physician file. (a) Each...

Section 23-17-10.6. - Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans. - § 23-17-10.6. Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans. Each nursing...

Section 23-17-10.7. - Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on probation or parole. - § 23-17-10.7. Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on...

Section 23-17-11. - Abortion and sterilization — Protection for nonparticipation — Procedure. - § 23-17-11. Abortion and sterilization — Protection for nonparticipation —...

Section 23-17-12. - Inspections — Nursing facilities. - § 23-17-12. Inspections — Nursing facilities. (a) The licensing agency...

Section 23-17-12.1. - Scope of inspections. - § 23-17-12.1. Scope of inspections. (a) Inspections and investigations shall...

Section 23-17-12.2. - Time for correction of defects. - § 23-17-12.2. Time for correction of defects. (a) Every corporation...

Section 23-17-12.3. - Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2. - § 23-17-12.3. Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2....

Section 23-17-12.4. - Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2. - § 23-17-12.4. Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2. The director...

Section 23-17-12.5. - Complaints — Nursing homes. - § 23-17-12.5. Complaints — Nursing homes. (a) Complaints regarding a...

Section 23-17-12.6. - Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager. - § 23-17-12.6. Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager....

Section 23-17-12.7. - Adverse change in financial condition. - § 23-17-12.7. Adverse change in financial condition. (a) Whenever the...

Section 23-17-12.8. - Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities. - § 23-17-12.8. Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities....

Section 23-17-12.9. - Resident and family notification. - § 23-17-12.9. Resident and family notification. The director shall establish...

Section 23-17-12.10. - Quality predictive modeling — Established. - § 23-17-12.10. Quality predictive modeling — Established. The department of...

Section 23-17-12.11. - Nursing facility quality improvement program. - § 23-17-12.11. Nursing facility quality improvement program. (a) Established. Each...

Section 23-17-13. - Repealed. - § 23-17-13. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 259, §...

Section 23-17-13.1. - Health services council. - § 23-17-13.1. Health services council. (a) There shall be established...

Section 23-17-14. - Functions of health services council. - § 23-17-14. Functions of health services council. The health services...

Section 23-17-14.1. - Immunity for council members. - § 23-17-14.1. Immunity for council members. No member of the...

Section 23-17-14.2. - Compensation. - § 23-17-14.2. Compensation. The chairperson and vice chairperson of the...

Section 23-17-14.3. - Review criteria. - § 23-17-14.3. Review criteria. Except as otherwise provided in this...

Section 23-17-14.4. - Procedures for review. - § 23-17-14.4. Procedures for review. (a) Within ten (10) working...

Section 23-17-15. - Information confidential. - § 23-17-15. Information confidential. Information received by the licensing agency...

Section 23-17-15.1. - Reports public. - § 23-17-15.1. Reports public. Copies of survey reports from the...

Section 23-17-16. - Annual report of activities. - § 23-17-16. Annual report of activities. The licensing agency shall...

Section 23-17-17. - Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility. - § 23-17-17. Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility....

Section 23-17-18. - Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses. - § 23-17-18. Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses. Any...

Section 23-17-19. - Injunction to restrain operation without license. - § 23-17-19. Injunction to restrain operation without license. Notwithstanding the...

Section 23-17-19.1. - Rights of patients. - § 23-17-19.1. Rights of patients. Every healthcare facility licensed under...

Section 23-17-19.2. - Posting of law. - § 23-17-19.2. Posting of law. Every health care facility licensed...

Section 23-17-19.3. - Patients’ visitation rights. - § 23-17-19.3. Patients’ visitation rights. (a) All health care providers...

Section 23-17-20. - Inapplicability. - § 23-17-20. Inapplicability. The provisions of this chapter shall not...

Section 23-17-21. - Power of enforcement. - § 23-17-21. Power of enforcement. The director of the department...

Section 23-17-22. - Severability. - § 23-17-22. Severability. If any provision of this chapter or...

Section 23-17-23. - Hospital disciplinary powers. - § 23-17-23. Hospital disciplinary powers. (a) The board of trustees...

Section 23-17-24. - Internal risk management program. - § 23-17-24. Internal risk management program. Every hospital licensed in...

Section 23-17-25. - Privileges and immunities for peer review activities. - § 23-17-25. Privileges and immunities for peer review activities. (a)...

Section 23-17-26. - Emergency health care. - § 23-17-26. Emergency health care. (a) Every healthcare facility that...

Section 23-17-27. - Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan. - § 23-17-27. Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan. (a)...

Section 23-17-28. - Health care cost containment. - § 23-17-28. Health care cost containment. Each health care facility...

Section 23-17-29. - Applicability. - § 23-17-29. Applicability. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this...

Section 23-17-30. - Blood or tissue transfer services. - § 23-17-30. Blood or tissue transfer services. (a) The procurement,...

Section 23-17-31. - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Hospitals. - § 23-17-31. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Hospitals. (a)...

Section 23-17-31.1. - Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Facilities for drug users. - § 23-17-31.1. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Facilities for...

Section 23-17-32. - Mammograms — Quality assurance standards. - § 23-17-32. Mammograms — Quality assurance standards. Any licensed health...

Section 23-17-33. - Pap smears — Quality assurance standards. - § 23-17-33. Pap smears — Quality assurance standards. Any licensed...

Section 23-17-34. - Criminal records review — Nursing facilities — Home nursing-care providers and home-care providers. - § 23-17-34. Criminal records review — Nursing facilities — Home...

Section 23-17-35. - Prior criminal records checks. - § 23-17-35. Prior criminal records checks. If an applicant for...

Section 23-17-36. - Rules and regulations. - § 23-17-36. Rules and regulations. The director of the department...

Section 23-17-37. - Disqualifying information. - § 23-17-37. Disqualifying information. (a) Information produced by a national...

Section 23-17-38. - Establishment of fees. - § 23-17-38. Establishment of fees. The director shall establish fees...

Section 23-17-38.1. - Hospitals — Licensing fee. - § 23-17-38.1. Hospitals — Licensing fee. (a) There is imposed...

Section 23-17-39. - Immunity from liability. - § 23-17-39. Immunity from liability. No employer who disqualifies an...

Section 23-17-40. - Hospital and freestanding emergency-care facility events reporting. - § 23-17-40. Hospital and freestanding emergency-care facility events reporting. (a)...

Section 23-17-41. - Employer/employee relationships. - § 23-17-41. Employer/employee relationships. A home nursing care provider and...

Section 23-17-42. - Home nursing care providers — Uncompensated care provisions. - § 23-17-42. Home nursing care providers — Uncompensated care provisions....

Section 23-17-43. - Charity care requirements. - § 23-17-43. Charity care requirements. Any new hospital or freestanding...

Section 23-17-44. - Moratorium on new initial nursing-facility licensed beds and on increases to the licensed capacity of existing nursing-facility licenses. - § 23-17-44. Moratorium on new initial nursing-facility licensed beds and...

Section 23-17-45. - Quality standards for volume related tertiary services. - § 23-17-45. Quality standards for volume related tertiary services. The...

Section 23-17-46. - Financial interest disclosure. - § 23-17-46. Financial interest disclosure. (a)(1) Any health care facility...

Section 23-17-47. - Identification badges. - § 23-17-47. Identification badges. A health care facility shall require...

Section 23-17-48. - Labor disputes/actions. - § 23-17-48. Labor disputes/actions. Health care facilities shall provide the...

Section 23-17-49. - Surgical procedures — General provisions. - § 23-17-49. Surgical procedures — General provisions. (a) The director...

Section 23-17-49.1. - Workplace and patient safety — Evacuation of surgical smoke plume required in operating rooms. - § 23-17-49.1. Workplace and patient safety — Evacuation of surgical...

Section 23-17-50. - Physician ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions. - § 23-17-50. Physician ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation,...

Section 23-17-51. - Magnetic resonance imaging — Quality assurance standards. - § 23-17-51. Magnetic resonance imaging — Quality assurance standards. (a)...

Section 23-17-52. - Department of health concern line. - § 23-17-52. Department of health concern line. Any hospital licensed...

Section 23-17-53. - Physician contracts. - § 23-17-53. Physician contracts. (a) A hospital, by contract or...

Section 23-17-54. - Provisions of interpreter services. - § 23-17-54. Provisions of interpreter services. (a) Every hospital and...

Section 23-17-55. - Severability. - § 23-17-55. Severability. If any provision of this chapter or...

Section 23-17-56. - School based health centers — Special requirements and exceptions. - § 23-17-56. School based health centers — Special requirements and...

Section 23-17-57. - Podiatry ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions. - § 23-17-57. Podiatry ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation,...

Section 23-17-58. - Documentation of pre-hospital and pre-freestanding emergency-care facility exposure of emergency medical services workers. - § 23-17-58. Documentation of pre-hospital and pre-freestanding emergency-care facility exposure...

Section 23-17-59. - Safe patient handling. - § 23-17-59. Safe patient handling. (a) Definitions. As used in...

Section 23-17-60. - Compilation and publication of the charges for common hospital procedures. - § 23-17-60. Compilation and publication of the charges for common...

Section 23-17-61. - Written estimates for hospital medical services. - § 23-17-61. Written estimates for hospital medical services. Upon the...

Section 23-17-62. - Criminal records review — Long-term care hospital. - § 23-17-62. Criminal records review — Long-term care hospital. (a)...

Section 23-17-63. - Patient safety — Circulating nurses required in operating rooms. - § 23-17-63. Patient safety — Circulating nurses required in operating...

Section 23-17-64. - Influenza immunization. - § 23-17-64. Influenza immunization. Between October 1 and March 1...

Section 23-17-65. - Transparency of ownership in healthcare facilities. - § 23-17-65. Transparency of ownership in healthcare facilities. (a) Any...

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Rhode Island General Laws Title 23 - Health and Safety Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Healthcare Facilities

Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-17 - Licensing of Healthcare Facilities