2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 40 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 450B Emergency Medical Services
NRS 450B.237 Establishment of program for treatment of trauma; regulations; proposal to designate hospital as trauma center; approval by Administrator of Health Division; standards; compliance.

NRS 450B.237 Establishment of program for treatment of trauma; regulations; proposal to designate hospital as trauma center; approval by Administrator of Health Division; standards; compliance.

1. The board shall establish a program for treating persons who require treatment for trauma and for transporting and admitting such persons to centers for the treatment of trauma. The program must provide for the development, operation and maintenance of a system of communication to be used in transporting such persons to the appropriate centers.

2. The State Board of Health shall adopt regulations which establish the standards for the designation of hospitals as centers for the treatment of trauma. The State Board of Health shall consider the standards adopted by the American College of Surgeons for a center for the treatment of trauma as a guide for such regulations. The Administrator of the Health Division shall not approve a proposal to designate a hospital as a center for the treatment of trauma unless the hospital meets the standards established pursuant to this subsection.

3. Each district board of health in a county whose population is 400,000 or more shall adopt regulations which establish the standards for the designation of hospitals in the county as centers for the treatment of trauma which are consistent with the regulations adopted by the State Board of Health pursuant to subsection 2. A district board of health shall not approve a proposal to designate a hospital as a center for the treatment of trauma unless the hospital meets the standards established pursuant to this subsection.

4. A proposal to designate a hospital located in a county whose population is 400,000 or more as a center for the treatment of trauma:

(a) Must be approved by the Administrator of the Health Division and by the district board of health of the county in which the hospital is located; and

(b) May not be approved unless the district board of health of the county in which the hospital is located has established and adopted a comprehensive trauma system plan concerning the treatment of trauma in the county, which includes, without limitation, consideration of the future trauma needs of the county, consideration of and plans for the development and designation of new centers for the treatment of trauma in the county based on the demographics of the county and the manner in which the county may most effectively provide trauma services to persons in the county.

5. Upon approval by the Administrator of the Health Division and, if the hospital is located in a county whose population is 400,000 or more, the district board of health of the county in which the hospital is located, of a proposal to designate a hospital as a center for the treatment of trauma, the Administrator of the Health Division shall issue written approval which designates the hospital as such a center. As a condition of continuing designation the hospital must comply with the following requirements:

(a) The hospital must admit any injured person who requires medical care.

(b) Any physician who provides treatment for trauma must be qualified to provide that treatment.

(c) The hospital must maintain the standards specified in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsections 2 and 3.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 1042; A 1993, 2835; 2005, 1349)