Iowa Code § 135B.3
Licensure
Redline — January 1, 2012 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2012
No person or governmental unit, acting severally or jointly with any other person or governmental unit shall establish, conduct or maintain a hospital in this state without a license.
No person or governmental unit, acting severally or jointly with any other person or governmental unit shall establish, conduct, or maintain a hospital or rural emergency hospital in this state without a license.
2023 amendment applies to a facility or, due to change in ownership, a successor facility that was, on or before December 27, 2020, a general hospital with no more than fifty licensed beds, located in a county in a rural area as specified in section 135B.3A with a specified population, and operating on and prior to a specified date under a valid certificate of need; 2023 Acts, ch 16, §20
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.