West Virginia Code
Article 5B. Hospitals and Similar Institutions
§16-5B-2. Hospitals and Institutions to Obtain License; Qualifications of Applicant

No person, partnership, association, corporation or any local governmental unit or any division, department, board or agency thereof may continue to operate an existing ambulatory health care facility, ambulatory surgical facility, hospital or extended care facility operated in connection with a hospital, or open an ambulatory health care facility, ambulatory surgical facility, a hospital or extended care facility operated in connection with a hospital, unless such operation shall have been approved and regularly licensed by the state as hereinafter provided. Licenses shall be issued for a particular number by type of beds and/or type of services. Any change in the number by type of bed and/or type of services shall require the issuance of a new license.
Before a license shall be issued under this article, the person applying, if an individual, shall submit evidence satisfactory to the state department of health that he is not less than eighteen years of age, of reputable and responsible character and otherwise qualified. In the event the applicant is an association, corporation or governmental unit, like evidence shall be submitted as to the members thereof and the persons in charge.
Every applicant shall, in addition, submit satisfactory evidence of his ability to comply with the minimum standards and with all rules and regulations lawfully promulgated. Every applicant shall further submit satisfactory evidence that he has implemented the paternity program created pursuant to section thirteen of this article.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 16. Public Health

Article 5B. Hospitals and Similar Institutions

§16-5B-1. Health Facilities and Certain Other Facilities Operated in Connection Therewith to Obtain License; Exemptions; Meaning of Hospital, etc.

§16-5B-2. Hospitals and Institutions to Obtain License; Qualifications of Applicant

§16-5B-3. Application for License

§16-5B-4. License Fees

§16-5B-5. Inspection

§16-5B-5a. Accreditation Reports Accepted for Periodic License Inspections

§16-5B-6. State Director of Health to Issue Licenses; Suspension or Revocation

§16-5B-6a. Consumer Majorities on Hospital Boards of Directors

§16-5B-7. Judicial Review

§16-5B-8. State Board of Health to Establish Standards; Director Enforces

§16-5B-9. Hospitals and Similar Institutions Required to Supply Patients, Upon Request, With One Specifically Itemized Statement of Charges Assessed to Patient, at No Cost to Patient

§16-5B-10. Information Not to Be Disclosed; Exception

§16-5B-11. Violations; Penalties

§16-5B-12. Injunction; Severability

§16-5B-13. Hospital-Based Paternity Program

§16-5B-14. The Critical Access Hospital Designation Act

§16-5B-15. Hospital Visitation

§16-5B-16. Public Notice Regarding the Closure of a Licensed Health Care Facility or Hospital

§16-5B-17. Healthcare-Associated Infection Reporting

§16-5B-18. Designation of Comprehensive, Primary, Acute, and Thrombectomy Capable Stroke-Ready Hospitals; Reporting Requirements; Rulemaking

§16-5B-19. Hospital Police Departments; Appointment of Hospital Police Officers; Qualifications; Authority; Compensation and Removal; Law-Enforcement Grants; Limitations on Liability