NAC449.74527. Specialized rehabilitative services.

     1. A facility for skilled nursing shall provide to a patient in the facility, according to his or her plan of care, specialized rehabilitative services, including, without limitation, physical therapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy and services for mental illness and intellectual disabilities. Such services must be provided by the facility or obtained from qualified outside sources pursuant to NAC 449.74521.

     2. Specialized rehabilitative services may be provided to a patient in a facility only upon the written order of a physician.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R051-99, eff. 9-27-99)