Nevada Revised Statutes 439.498 – Records of health care facility: Availability to Chief Medical Officer; abstracting of information; administrative penalty for violation of section
1. The chief administrative officer of each health care facility in this State shall make available to the Chief Medical Officer or his or her representative the records of the health care facility for each case of lupus and its variants.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 439.498
- Division: means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 439.005
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
2. The Division shall abstract from the records of a health care facility or shall require a health care facility to abstract from the records of the health care facility such information as is required by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 439.4978. The Division shall compile the information in a timely manner and not later than 6 months after the Division abstracts the information or receives the abstracted information from the health care facility.
3. Any person who violates this section is subject to an administrative penalty established by regulation by the State Board of Health.