Chapter

Licensing of Healthcare Facilities

R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-1— Short title
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-2— Definitions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-3— Purpose of provisions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-4— License required for healthcare facility operation
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-4.1— Rules and regulations for school-based health centers
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-5— Application for license
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-5.1— Additional information required of nursing facility applicants for initial licensure or change of ownership
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-5.2— Additional information required for license renewal of all nursing facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-6— Issuance of license — Posting — Transfer — Conditions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-7— Expiration and renewal of license
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-8— Denial, suspension, or revocation of license
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-8.1— Curtailment of activities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-9— Judicial review of license action
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10— Regulations, inspections, and investigations — Certain hospitals required to provide on-premises coverage by physician — Uniform reports — Data systems
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.1— Financial regulation of health maintenance organizations
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.2— Full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding emergency-care facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.3— Special care unit disclosure by facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.4— Rehabilitation special care unit and sub-acute special care unit disclosure by facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.5— Medical director and attending physician file
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.6— Nursing facility wandering hazard prevention plans
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-10.7— Nursing facility assessment and disclosure for residents on probation or parole
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-11— Abortion and sterilization — Protection for nonparticipation — Procedure
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12— Inspections — Nursing facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.1— Scope of inspections
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.2— Time for correction of defects
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.3— Penalty for violation of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.4— Enforcement of §§ 23-17-12 — 23-17-12.2
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.5— Complaints — Nursing homes
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.6— Independent quality monitor, quality consultant and temporary manager
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.7— Adverse change in financial condition
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.8— Posting of nursing staff levels in nursing facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.9— Resident and family notification
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.10— Quality predictive modeling — Established
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-12.11— Nursing facility quality improvement program
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-13— Repealed
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-13.1— Health services council
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-14— Functions of health services council
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-14.1— Immunity for council members
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-14.2— Compensation
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-14.3— Review criteria
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-14.4— Procedures for review
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-15— Information confidential
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-15.1— Reports public
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-16— Annual report of activities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-17— Penalty for operation of unlicensed health care facility
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-18— Obtaining treatment or services under false pretenses
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-19— Injunction to restrain operation without license
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-19.1— Rights of patients
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-19.2— Posting of law
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-19.3— Patients’ visitation rights
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-20— Inapplicability
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-21— Power of enforcement
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-22— Severability
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-23— Hospital disciplinary powers
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-24— Internal risk management program
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-25— Privileges and immunities for peer review activities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-26— Emergency health care
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-27— Disclosure of nonparticipation in hospital service plan
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-28— Health care cost containment
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-29— Applicability
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-30— Blood or tissue transfer services
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-31— Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Hospitals
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-31.1— Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing — Facilities for drug users
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-32— Mammograms — Quality assurance standards
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-33— Pap smears — Quality assurance standards
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-34— Criminal records review — Nursing facilities — Home nursing-care providers and home-care providers
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-35— Prior criminal records checks
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-36— Rules and regulations
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-37— Disqualifying information
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-38— Establishment of fees
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-38.1— Hospitals — Licensing fee
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-39— Immunity from liability
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-40— Hospital and freestanding emergency-care facility events reporting
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-41— Employer/employee relationships
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-42— Home nursing care providers — Uncompensated care provisions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-43— Charity care requirements
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-44— Moratorium on new initial nursing-facility licensed beds and on increases to the licensed capacity of existing nursing-facility licenses
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-45— Quality standards for volume related tertiary services
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-46— Financial interest disclosure
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-47— Identification badges
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-48— Labor disputes/actions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-49— Surgical procedures — General provisions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-49.1— Workplace and patient safety — Evacuation of surgical smoke plume required in operating rooms
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-50— Physician ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-51— Magnetic resonance imaging — Quality assurance standards
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-52— Department of health concern line
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-53— Physician contracts
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-54— Provisions of interpreter services
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-55— Severability
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-56— School based health centers — Special requirements and exceptions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-57— Podiatry ambulatory-surgery center — Accreditation, survey, complaint investigation, and exemptions
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-58— Documentation of pre-hospital and pre-freestanding emergency-care facility exposure of emergency medical services workers
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-59— Safe patient handling
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-60— Compilation and publication of the charges for common hospital procedures
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-61— Written estimates for hospital medical services
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-62— Criminal records review — Long-term care hospital
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-63— Patient safety — Circulating nurses required in operating rooms
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-64— Influenza immunization
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-65— Transparency of ownership in healthcare facilities
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-66— Protocols for the early recognition and treatment of patients with sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock
R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-67— Hospital determinations for Medicare and Medicaid for uninsured patients