Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2019/cite/144.55
Timestamp: 2019-12-06 19:28:18
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﻿ Sec. 144.55 MN Statutes
Section 144.55
144.54 144.5509
2019 Subd. 1 Amended 2019 c 22 s 1
2019 Subd. 2 Amended 2019 c 50 art 1 s 38
2019 Subd. 2 Amended 2019 c 22 s 2
2019 Subd. 3a New 2019 c 22 s 3
2019 Subd. 3b New 2019 c 22 s 4
2019 Subd. 9 Amended 2019 c 22 s 5
2019 Subd. 10 Repealed 2019 c 22 s 6
2013 Subd. 3 Amended 2013 c 43 s 6
2010 Subd. 2 Amended 2010 c 274 s 1
2005 Subd. 2 Amended 2005 c 85 s 2
2005 Subd. 4 Amended 2005 c 85 s 3
2005 Subd. 5 Amended 2005 c 85 s 4
2004 Subd. 1 Amended 2004 c 198 s 1
2004 Subd. 1a New 2004 c 198 s 2
2004 Subd. 1b New 2004 c 198 s 3
2004 Subd. 2 Amended 2004 c 198 s 4
2004 Subd. 3 Amended 2004 c 198 s 5
2004 Subd. 5 Amended 2004 c 198 s 6
2004 Subd. 6 Amended 2004 c 198 s 7
2004 Subd. 7 Amended 2004 c 198 s 8
144.55 LICENSES; ISSUANCE, SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION.
Subd. 1a.License fee.
The annual license fee for outpatient surgical centers is $1,512.
Subd. 1b.Standards for nursing care.
As a condition of licensure, outpatient surgical centers must provide nursing care consistent with nationally accepted nursing clinical standards for perioperative nursing, including, but not limited to Association of Operating Room Nurses and American Nurses Association standards, which are generally accepted in the professional nursing community.
(b) "Outpatient surgical center" or "center" means a facility organized for the specific purpose of providing elective outpatient surgery for preexamined, prediagnosed, low-risk patients. An outpatient surgical center is not organized to provide regular emergency medical services and does not include a physician's or dentist's office or clinic for the practice of medicine, the practice of dentistry, or the delivery of primary care.
Subd. 3.Standards for licensure.
Subd. 3a.Standards for admission; outpatient surgical centers.
Subd. 3b.Facility standards for outpatient surgical centers.
Subd. 4.Routine inspections; presumption.
Any hospital surveyed and accredited under the standards of the hospital accreditation program of an approved accrediting organization that submits to the commissioner within a reasonable time copies of (a) its currently valid accreditation certificate and accreditation letter, together with accompanying recommendations and comments and (b) any further recommendations, progress reports and correspondence directly related to the accreditation is presumed to comply with application requirements of subdivision 1 and the standards requirements of subdivision 3 and no further routine inspections or accreditation information shall be required by the commissioner to determine compliance. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 144.54 and 144.653, subdivisions 2 and 4, hospitals shall be inspected only as provided in this section. The provisions of section 144.653 relating to the assessment and collection of fines shall not apply to any hospital. The commissioner of health shall annually conduct, with notice, validation inspections of a selected sample of the number of hospitals accredited by an approved accrediting organization, not to exceed ten percent of accredited hospitals, for the purpose of determining compliance with the provisions of subdivision 3. If a validation survey discloses a failure to comply with subdivision 3, the provisions of section 144.653 relating to correction orders, reinspections, and notices of noncompliance shall apply. The commissioner shall also conduct any inspection necessary to determine whether hospital construction, addition, or remodeling projects comply with standards for construction promulgated in rules pursuant to subdivision 3. Pursuant to section 144.653, the commissioner shall inspect any hospital that does not have a currently valid hospital accreditation certificate from an approved accrediting organization. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to limit the investigative powers of the Office of Health Facility Complaints as established in sections 144A.51 to 144A.54.
Subd. 5.Coordination of inspections.
Prior to conducting routine inspections of hospitals and outpatient surgical centers, a state agency shall notify the commissioner of its intention to inspect. The commissioner shall then determine whether the inspection is necessary in light of any previous inspections conducted by the commissioner, any other state agency, or an approved accrediting organization. The commissioner shall notify the agency of the determination and may authorize the agency to conduct the inspection. No state agency may routinely inspect any hospital without the authorization of the commissioner. The commissioner shall coordinate, insofar as is possible, routine inspections conducted by state agencies, so as to minimize the number of inspections to which hospitals are subject.
Subd. 6.Suspension, revocation, and refusal to renew.
(a) The commissioner may refuse to grant or renew, or may suspend or revoke, a license on any of the following grounds:
(1) violation of any of the provisions of sections 144.50 to 144.56 or the rules or standards issued pursuant thereto, or Minnesota Rules, chapters 4650 and 4675;
(2) permitting, aiding, or abetting the commission of any illegal act in the institution;
(3) conduct or practices detrimental to the welfare of the patient; or
(4) obtaining or attempting to obtain a license by fraud or misrepresentation; or
(5) with respect to hospitals and outpatient surgical centers, if the commissioner determines that there is a pattern of conduct that one or more physicians who have a "financial or economic interest," as defined in section 144.6521, subdivision 3, in the hospital or outpatient surgical center, have not provided the notice and disclosure of the financial or economic interest required by section 144.6521.
(b) The commissioner shall not renew a license for a boarding care bed in a resident room with more than four beds.
Subd. 7.Hearing.
Prior to any suspension, revocation or refusal to renew a license, the licensee shall be entitled to notice and a hearing as provided by sections 14.57 to 14.69. At each hearing, the commissioner shall have the burden of establishing that a violation described in subdivision 6 has occurred.
If a license is revoked, suspended, or not renewed, a new application for license may be considered by the commissioner if the conditions upon which revocation, suspension, or refusal to renew was based have been corrected and evidence of this fact has been satisfactorily furnished. A new license may then be granted after proper inspection has been made and all provisions of sections 144.50 to 144.56 and any rules promulgated thereunder, or Minnesota Rules, chapters 4650 and 4675, have been complied with and recommendation has been made by the inspector as an agent of the commissioner.
Subd. 8.Rules.
The commissioner may promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of this section, except that the standards described in subdivision 3 shall constitute the sole minimum quality standards for licensure of hospitals.
Subd. 9.Expiration of licenses.
All licenses expire on the dates specified on the licenses unless suspended or revoked.
MS 2018 [Repealed, 2019 c 22 s 6]
Subd. 11.State hospitals not affected.
Subdivisions 3, 4, and 5 do not apply to state hospitals and other facilities operated under the direction of the commissioner of human services.
1941 c 549 s 6; 1951 c 304 s 6; 1976 c 173 s 37; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1978 c 674 s 60; 1981 c 95 s 2; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1987 c 403 art 4 s 1; 1992 c 559 art 1 s 2; 2004 c 198 s 1-8; 2005 c 85 s 2-4; 2010 c 274 s 1; 2013 c 43 s 6; 2019 c 22 s 1-5; 2019 c 50 art 1 s 38