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2015 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH
ARTICLE 5B. HOSPITALS AND SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS.
- §16-5B-1. Health facilities and certain other facilities operated in connection therewith to obtain license; exemptions; meaning of hospital, etc.
- §16-5B-2. Hospitals and institutions to obtain license; qualifications of applicant.
- §16-5B-3. Application for license.
- §16-5B-4. License fees.
- §16-5B-5. Inspection.
- §16-5B-5a. Accreditation reports accepted for periodic license inspections.
- §16-5B-6. State director of health to issue licenses; suspension or revocation.
- §16-5B-6a. Consumer majorities on hospital boards of directors.
- §16-5B-7. Judicial review.
- §16-5B-8. State board of health to establish standards; director enforces.
- §16-5B-8a.
- §16-5B-9. Hospitals and similar institutions required to supply patients, upon request, with one specifically itemized statement of charges assessed to patient, at no cost to patient.
- §16-5B-10. Information not to be disclosed; exception.
- §16-5B-11. Violations; penalties.
- §16-5B-12. Injunction; severability.
- §16-5B-13. Hospital-based paternity program.
- §16-5B-14. The Critical Access Hospital Designation Act.
- §16-5B-15. Hospital visitation.
- §16-5B-16. Public notice regarding the closure of a licensed health care facility or hospital.
- §16-5B-17. Healthcare-associated infection reporting.
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