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NV Rev Stat § 450.240 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.240 - Management of county hospital by board; levy of tax for maintenance and operation.

  1. In all counties where a tax for the establishment and maintenance of a public hospital has been authorized by a majority of the voters voting for a bond issue in accordance with law, the supervision, management, government and control of the county hospital vests in and must be exercised by the board of hospital trustees for the county public hospital, and the institution must thereafter be operated by the board of hospital trustees.  2. Annually, upon the request of the board of hospital trustees, the board of county commissioners may levy a tax for the maintenance and operation of the county public hospital, excluding the establishment, maintenance or operation of any facility located outside the county or counties where the county hospital is established.  3. The resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners imposing a tax levy for a county public hospital must state:  (a) The portion of the levy which is necessary to retire hospital bonds and any other outstanding hospital securities, and to pay interest thereon;  (b) The portion of the levy which is necessary to pay for the care of indigent patients; and  (c) The portion of the levy which is necessary to pay for the cost of new equipment, replacement of old equipment and other improvements to the hospital not covered by specific bond issues or other securities and not included in the cost of care of indigent patients as provided in paragraph (b). The cost must be prorated to the county in accordance with the number of patient days of care of county patients.  4. The board of county commissioners may not levy a tax for the care of indigents in the county public hospital as a hospital expense unless the levy and its justification are included in the budget for the hospital fund submitted to the Department of Taxation as provided by law.  [1:67:1931; 1931 NCL § 2243] + [2:67:1931; A 1937, 167; 1941, 15; 1943, 39; 1943 NCL § 2243.01] — (NRS A 1957, 239; 1965, 945; 1969, 1605; 1975, 1745; 1987, 387; 1995, 333)
NV Rev Stat § 450.250 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.250 - Control of expenditures by board; lease of buildings; deposit of money in hospital fund or separate account.

  1. The board of hospital trustees has the exclusive control of:  (a) The expenditures of all money collected to the credit of the hospital fund.  (b) The purchase of the site or sites.  (c) The purchase or construction of any hospital building or buildings.  (d) The supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms or buildings purchased, constructed, leased or set apart for that purpose.  2. With the approval of the board of county commissioners of the county or counties where the county hospital is established, the board of hospital trustees may lease buildings in that county or those counties for medical purposes or for purposes of related health care activities.  3. All money received for the hospital must be deposited in the county treasury of the county in which the hospital is situated to the credit of the hospital fund, and paid out only upon warrants drawn by the board of hospital trustees of the county or counties upon properly authenticated vouchers of the board of hospital trustees, after their approval by the county auditor, except that all money received for a hospital may be deposited in a separate account established and administered by the board of hospital trustees under the provisions of NRS 354.603.  [Part 4:169:1929; A 1937, 194; 1943, 17; 1955, 194] — (NRS A 1971, 1349; 1975, 1811; 1979, 550, 1407, 1408; 1981, 686, 1771; 1993, 1974; 1995, 333)
NV Rev Stat § 450.255 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.255 - Mortgage or pledge of personal property of hospital; acquisition of real property for expansion.

The board of trustees of a county hospital, with the approval of the board of county commissioners, if the board of county commissioners is not the board of hospital trustees, may, by resolution:  1. Mortgage or pledge the personal property of the hospital, including accounts receivable, and enter into agreements for the sale and leasing back to the hospital of its personal property to provide security for acquiring money for the operation of the hospital; and  2. Acquire real property for the expansion of the hospital by entering into a contract for purchase of a type and duration and on such terms as the governing body determines, including a contract secured by a mortgage or other security interest in the real property.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 295; A 1997, 3100)
NV Rev Stat § 450.260 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.260 - Collection or settlement of claims.

The board of hospital trustees may:  1. By proper legal action, collect claims due to the public hospital.  2. Accept as settlement of a claim due an amount less than that of the claim.  3. Pay from the hospital fund all fees and expenses necessarily incurred by the board in connection with the collection of claims.  [Part 4:169:1929; A 1937, 194; 1943, 17; 1955, 194] — (NRS A 1987, 296)
NV Rev Stat § 450.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.270 - Maximum amount.

Whenever any county or counties in this state shall have provided for the appointment and election of hospital trustees, and have voted for the issuance of bonds for hospital purposes, as authorized by law, each such county shall issue bonds in such sums and amounts as the board of hospital trustees shall certify to the board of county commissioners to be necessary for the purpose stated in the bond question approved at the election, but such bonds in the aggregate shall not exceed the maximum amount authorized by the bond question.  [Part 6:169:1929; NCL § 2230] — (NRS A 1965, 634)
NV Rev Stat § 450.280 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.280 - Purposes and procedure for issuance of general obligation bonds at request of board of hospital trustees.

  1. Whenever the board of hospital trustees of any county deems it advisable that bonds be issued for the enlargement, maintenance, repair, improvement or reconstruction of a public hospital, including, without limitation, the construction, installation and other acquisition of additional fixtures, structures, and buildings for the public hospital, equipment and furnishings therefor, and additional sites therefor, or any combination thereof, the board shall, by resolution, request the board of county commissioners of the county to issue general obligation bonds therefor and shall specify in the resolution the maximum amount of money proposed to be expended for any of those purposes.  2. Thereupon the board of county commissioners shall:  (a) Comply with the provisions of NRS 350.011 to 350.0165, inclusive; and  (b) Upon the receipt of the approval of the county debt management commission of the proposal to issue the county hospital bonds, submit the question of issuing the bonds to the qualified electors of the county at a special election or the next primary or general election, as provided in NRS 350.020 to 350.070, inclusive.  [Part 1:169:1929; A 1931, 231; 1943, 213; 1953, 365] — (NRS A 1965, 634; 1969, 1605; 1981, 963; 1993, 1079; 1995, 773)
NV Rev Stat § 450.290 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.290 - Issuance of general and special obligation bonds by board of county commissioners.

  1. Subject to the provisions of NRS 450.010 to 450.510, inclusive, for any hospital project stated in a bond question approved as provided in NRS 350.070, the board of county commissioners, at any time, in the name and on the behalf of the county, may issue:  (a) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes; and  (b) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes, which payment is additionally secured by a pledge of gross or net revenues derived from the operation of the hospital facilities, and, if so determined by the board of county commissioners, further secured by a pledge of gross or net revenues derived from any other income-producing project of the county or from any license or other excise taxes levied by the county for revenue, as may be legally made available for their payment.  2. The board of county commissioners of any county, in the name and on behalf of the county, may issue, for any hospital project, without the securities being authorized at any election, special obligation municipal securities payable solely from net revenues or gross revenues derived from the operation of hospital facilities.  [Part 1:169:1929; A 1931, 231; 1943, 213; 1953, 365] — (NRS A 1965, 635; 1969, 1606; 1975, 1158; 1977, 777; 1979, 550; 1981, 510; 1983, 1670)
NV Rev Stat § 450.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.300 - Applicability of Local Government Securities Law.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 450.290, for any hospital facilities authorized by NRS 450.010 to 450.510, inclusive, the board of county commissioners may, on the behalf and in the name of the county, borrow money, otherwise become obligated, and evidence obligations by the issuance of bonds and other county securities, and in connection with the undertaking or facilities, the board may otherwise proceed as provided in the Local Government Securities Law.  [Part 1:169:1929; A 1931, 231; 1943, 213; 1953, 365] — (NRS A 1965, 635; 1969, 1606; 1985, 293)
NV Rev Stat § 450.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.310 - Schedules of fees, rates and charges for services, facilities and commodities.

In order to insure the payment of the general obligation bonds of the county, the payment of which is additionally secured by a pledge of revenues of such hospital facilities, of any such other income-producing project and of any such excise taxes, as provided in NRS 450.290, or other such additionally secured general obligation securities of the county, there may be established and maintained, and from time to time revised, a schedule or schedules of fees, rates and charges for services, facilities and commodities rendered by or through such facilities and any such other income-producing project and a schedule or schedules of any such excise taxes, as the case may be, by the board of hospital trustees for such hospital facilities and otherwise by the board of county commissioners, in an amount sufficient for that purpose and also sufficient to discharge any covenant in the proceedings authorizing the issuance of any of the bonds or other securities, including any covenant for the establishment of reasonable reserve funds.  [Part 1:169:1929; A 1931, 231; 1943, 213; 1953, 365] — (NRS A 1965, 636; 1969, 1607)
NV Rev Stat § 450.390 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.390 - Hospital for benefit of county; payment of charges; exclusion of persons from use of hospital.

  1. Every county hospital in this State being supported by public money, and every hospital established under NRS 450.010 to 450.510, inclusive, must be for the benefit of that county or counties and of any person falling sick or being injured or maimed within its limits, but the governing body of the hospital may extend the privileges and use of the hospital to persons residing outside of the county or counties upon such terms and conditions as the governing body may by its rules and regulations prescribe.  2. Every inhabitant or person who is not a pauper and every relative required by the laws of this State to support an inhabitant or person who is a pauper shall pay to the governing body, or an officer it designates, a reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine and attendance, other than medical or surgical attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the governing body. If after demand by the governing body, or its designated officer, the inhabitant, person or relative fails, refuses or neglects to pay the compensation, it may be recovered in a suit at law brought by the governing body.  3. The hospital is subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the governing body may adopt in order to render the use of the hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people.  4. The governing body may exclude from the use of the hospital any and all inhabitants and persons who willfully violate those rules and regulations.  5. The provisions of this section do not prohibit the hospital from exercising other powers granted to it by the provisions of this chapter.  [9:169:1929; NCL § 2233] + [1:132:1941; 1931 NCL § 2245] — (NRS A 1987, 388)
NV Rev Stat § 450.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.400 - Extension of privileges and use of hospital to certain nonresidents: Notice; removal of person to resident county; payment for temporary care; action for recovery of charges.

  1. When the privileges and use of the hospital are extended to a resident of another county who is reasonably believed to be indigent, as defined in NRS 439B.310, and who is:  (a) Entitled under the laws of this state to relief, support, care, nursing, medicine or medical or surgical aid from the other county; or  (b) Injured, maimed or falls sick in the other county,  the governing head shall notify the board of county commissioners of that county within 3 working days after the person is admitted to that hospital.  2. The notice must be in writing and addressed to the board of county commissioners of that county.  3. Except in the case of an injury suffered in a motor vehicle crash, the board of county commissioners receiving the notice shall cause the person to be removed immediately to that county, and shall pay a reasonable sum to the hospital for the temporary occupancy, care, nursing, medicine, and attendance, other than medical or surgical attendance, furnished to the person.  4. If the board of county commissioners neglects or refuses to remove the person, or if in the opinion of the attending physician it is not advisable to remove the person, the governing head has a legal claim against the county for all charges for occupancy, nursing, care, medicine, and attendance, other than medical or surgical attendance, necessarily furnished, and may recover those charges in a suit at law.  [2:132:1941; A 1949, 588; 1943 NCL § 2245.01] — (NRS A 1983, 1943; 1991, 1000; 1993, 1974; 2015, 1678)
NV Rev Stat § 450.410 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.410 - Admission of paying patients; charges.

  1. Supervising boards of county hospitals may:  (a) Provide for treatment to sick or injured persons and require the payment of reasonable charges therefor.  (b) Contract for the provision of such treatment on a periodic prepaid basis with any person authorized by the Commissioner of Insurance pursuant to title 57 of NRS to arrange for or provide health care services on a periodic prepaid basis.  The treatment of such persons must not be permitted to interfere with the treatment of purely charitable cases.  2. Every person treated by a county hospital and required to pay charges for hospitalization, shall pay the charges fixed by the supervising board therefor, which charges, when paid, must be paid forthwith into the county treasury and deposited to the credit of the hospital fund.  3. Every person treated by a county hospital and required to pay charges to the hospital has the right to the services of a physician or surgeon of the person’s own choice, and has the right to employ such special nurses as may be necessary, but the cost of the physician, surgeon or nurses must not become a claim against the county.  4. Supervising boards shall fix and determine reasonable charges to be paid by sick and injured persons treated by county hospitals, which charges must include the board and lodging of the person and the customary use of hospital facilities by the person admitted.  [1:124:1941; 1931 NCL § 2244] + [2:124:1941; 1931 NCL § 2244.01] + [3:124:1941; 1931 NCL § 2244.02] + [4:124:1941; 1931 NCL § 2244.03] — (NRS A 1987, 389; 1997, 907)
NV Rev Stat § 450.420 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.420 - Board of county commissioners to determine status of patient; charges fixed by board of hospital trustees; costs chargeable to county; exceptions.

  1. The board of county commissioners of the county in which a public hospital is located may determine whether patients presented to the public hospital for treatment are subjects of charity. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 439B.330, the board of county commissioners shall establish by ordinance criteria and procedures to be used in the determination of eligibility for medical care as medical indigents or subjects of charity.  2. The board of hospital trustees shall fix the charges for treatment of those persons able to pay for the charges, as the board deems just and proper. The board of hospital trustees may impose an interest charge of not more than 12 percent per annum on unpaid accounts. The receipts must be paid to the county treasurer and credited to the hospital fund. In fixing charges pursuant to this subsection the board of hospital trustees shall not include, or seek to recover from paying patients, any portion of the expense of the hospital which is properly attributable to the care of indigent patients.  3. Except as provided in subsection 4 of this section and subsection 3 of NRS 439B.320, the county is chargeable with the entire cost of services rendered by the hospital and any salaried staff physician or employee to any person admitted for emergency treatment, including all reasonably necessary recovery, convalescent and follow-up inpatient care required for any such person as determined by the board of trustees of the hospital, but the hospital shall use reasonable diligence to collect the charges from the emergency patient or any other person responsible for the support of the patient. Any amount collected must be reimbursed or credited to the county.  4. The county is not chargeable with the cost of services rendered by the hospital or any attending staff physician or surgeon to the extent the hospital is reimbursed for those services pursuant to NRS 428.115 to 428.255, inclusive.  [14:169:1929; NCL § 2238] — (NRS A 1969, 875; 1975, 1305; 1977, 480; 1983, 1943; 1985, 1463; 1987, 389, 878; 1993, 1975)
NV Rev Stat § 450.425 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.425 - Board of county commissioners may levy ad valorem tax to pay cost of services rendered at hospital to certain persons admitted for emergency treatment.

  1. The board of county commissioners of a county in which a county hospital is established may, upon approval by a majority of the voters voting on the question in an election held throughout the county, levy an ad valorem tax of not more than 2.5 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation upon all taxable property in the county, to pay the cost of services rendered in the county by the hospital pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 450.420. The approval required by this subsection may be requested at any primary or general election.  2. Any tax imposed pursuant to this section is in addition to the taxes imposed pursuant to NRS 428.050, 428.185 and 428.285. The proceeds of any tax levied pursuant to this section are exempt from the limitations imposed by NRS 354.59811, 428.050 and 428.285 and must be excluded in determining the maximum rate of tax authorized by those sections.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 878; A 1989, 2086; 1991, 482; 1993, 1079; 1995, 334)
NV Rev Stat § 450.430 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.430 - Equal privileges of practitioners; exception; rights of patients; loss of hospital privileges not adverse action against physician in certain circumstances.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 450.440, in the management of the public hospital, no discrimination may be made against physicians, podiatric physicians or dentists licensed under the laws of this state or licensed practitioners of the allied health professions, and all such physicians, dentists, podiatric physicians and practitioners have privileges in treating patients in the hospital in accordance with their training and ability, except that practitioners of the allied health professions may not be members of the staff of physicians described in NRS 450.440. Practitioners of the allied health professions are subject to the bylaws and regulations established by the board of hospital trustees.  2. The patient has the right to employ, at the patient’s own expense, his or her own physician, if that physician is a member of the hospital staff, or the patient’s own nurse, and when acting for any patient in the hospital, the physician employed by the patient has charge of the care and treatment of the patient, and the nurses in the hospital shall comply with the directions of the physician concerning that patient, subject to the regulations established by the board of hospital trustees.  3. If a physician loses privileges at a hospital because the physician no longer holds a faculty or clinical appointment with the University of Nevada School of Medicine or the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Dental Medicine, as required pursuant to NRS 450.440, that action shall not be deemed to be an adverse action by the hospital against the physician.  [Part 11:169:1929; A 1955, 194] — (NRS A 1957, 780; 1975, 641; 1979, 150; 2001, 1830; 2011, 917)
NV Rev Stat § 450.450 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.450 - General administration of hospital subject to regulations of trustees.

When a county hospital is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of the same, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the board of hospital trustees may prescribe.  [10:169:1929; NCL § 2234]
NV Rev Stat § 450.455 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.455 - Program for training resident physicians.

A board of hospital trustees may institute and maintain training programs in the county hospital for resident physicians, including interns and postgraduates. Such programs must meet the standards for recognition by the American Medical Association and for accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Graduate Medical Education.  (Added to NRS by 1963, 455; A 1979, 676)
NV Rev Stat § 450.460 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450 - County Hospitals and Hospital Districts|NRS 450.460 - School for training nurses.

The board of hospital trustees may establish and maintain in connection with a county hospital and as a part thereof a training school for nurses. Upon completion of the prescribed course of training the board of hospital trustees shall give diplomas to such nurses as complete the course satisfactorily.  [12:169:1929; NCL § 2236]