Iowa Code 135C.12 – Conditional operation
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If the department has the authority under section 135C.10 to deny, suspend or revoke a license, the department or director may, as an alternative to those actions:
1. Apply to the district court of the county in which the licensee’s health care facility is located for appointment by the court of a receiver for the facility pursuant to section 135C.30.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 135C.12
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- License: means a license issued by the state under this chapter to a hearing aid specialist. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Conditionally issue or continue a license dependent upon the performance by the licensee of reasonable conditions within a reasonable period of time as set by the department so as to permit the licensee to commence or continue the operation of the health care facility pending full compliance with this chapter or the regulations or minimum standards promulgated under this chapter. If the licensee does not make diligent efforts to comply with the conditions prescribed, the department may, under the proceedings prescribed by this chapter, suspend or revoke the license. No health care facility shall be operated on a conditional license for more than one year.
3. The department, in evaluating corrections of deficiencies in a facility in receivership or operating on a conditional license, may determine what is satisfactory compliance, provided that in so doing it shall employ established criteria which shall be uniformly applied to all facilities of the same license category.