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Nursing Services

Requirements about nursing organization, staffing, assignments, supervision, and nursing care operations.

Behavioral Health

Requirements about psychiatric, restraint, seclusion, mental-health, and behavioral-health services.

Radiology Imaging

Requirements about radiology, imaging, x-ray, mammography, and diagnostic imaging services.

Pharmacy Medication

Requirements about pharmacy services, medication management, storage, orders, and administration.

Laboratory Services

Requirements about laboratory services, testing, specimens, clinical labs, and diagnostic support.

Emergency Services

Requirements about emergency care, emergency departments, transfers, and urgent response.

Rehabilitation Therapy

Requirements about physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, rehabilitation plans, and therapy service conditions.

Discharge Planning

Requirements about discharge planning, transfer planning, patient instructions, and continuity of care.

Patient Rights

Requirements about notices, grievances, participation, visitation, informed decisions, and patient protections.

Consent Advance Directives

Requirements about consent, decision-making, representatives, and advance directives.

Restraint Seclusion

Requirements and context about restraint, seclusion, monitoring, orders, and patient protections.

Grievance Complaints

Requirements about patient complaints, grievance processes, and response obligations.

Abuse Neglect Reporting

Requirements about identifying, escalating, documenting, and reporting suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, domestic violence, or related patient-safety concerns.

Patient Safety Events

Requirements about patient-safety events, adverse events, sentinel events, incident response, prevention, reporting, and follow-up.

Medical Records

Requirements about records, documentation, retention, authentication, and patient information.

Confidentiality Disclosure

Requirements about confidentiality, permitted or required disclosures, consent to disclose, disclosure limits, and non-HIPAA privacy protections.

Documentation Retention

Requirements about creating, maintaining, retaining, preserving, and producing records or other required documentation for specified periods.

Health Information Access

Requirements about patient or representative access to health information, disclosure accounting, copies, amendments, and access workflows.

Public Health Reporting

Public health reporting, registries, surveillance submissions, and reporting standards.

Health IT Certification

Health IT certification, EHR criteria, and certified technology provisions.

HIPAA Privacy Security

HIPAA, privacy, security, protected health information, and covered-entity provisions.

Electronic Prescribing

Electronic prescribing, e-prescribing technology, and medication exchange provisions.

Interoperability API Standards

API, interoperability, data exchange, C-CDA, FHIR, and transport standard provisions.

Compliance Programs

Requirements about compliance programs, audits, program evaluation, reporting systems, financial integrity controls, and organizational compliance oversight.

Quality Governance

Requirements about governing body duties, quality assessment, performance improvement, committees, and oversight.

Survey Certification Enforcement

Requirements about surveys, certification actions, enforcement remedies, penalties, appeals, corrective actions, and regulatory review.

Incident Reporting

Requirements about reporting incidents, unusual events, reportable conditions, notifications, investigation records, and follow-up actions.

Medical Staff Governance

Requirements about medical staff organization, bylaws, privileges, appointments, leadership, accountability, and practitioner governance.

Provider Certification

Provider certification, participation, survey, and approval provisions.

Facility Licensure

Facility licensing, approval, renewal, and state licensure provisions.

Facility Type Definitions

Facility type definitions and setting classifications.

Accreditation Approval

Accreditation, approval bodies, and deemed-status provisions.

Certificate Of Need

Certificate-of-need and facility expansion approval provisions.

Reimbursement Payment

Payment, reimbursement, rate, claim, and payment-method provisions.

Provider Enrollment

Provider enrollment, participation, agreements, approvals, and certification administration.

Cost Reporting

Cost report, audit, accounting, and reimbursement documentation provisions.

Program Integrity Fraud Abuse

Program-integrity, fraud, abuse, exclusion, and enforcement provisions.

Anti Kickback Safe Harbors

Anti-kickback, remuneration, safe-harbor, and fraud-abuse exception provisions.

Value Based Arrangements

Value-based care, outcomes-based payment, shared-savings, and model arrangement provisions.

Physical Environment

Requirements about facilities, equipment, safety, environment of care, and building operations.

Equipment Maintenance

Requirements about equipment safety, inspection, testing, preventive maintenance, calibration, and service readiness.

Sanitation Environmental Health

Requirements about sanitation, environmental health, cleanliness, food hygiene, smoking restrictions, pools, and other public-health environmental controls.

Emergency Preparedness

Requirements about emergency preparedness planning, drills, disaster response, continuity operations, preparedness funding, and public health emergency readiness.

Life Safety

Requirements about fire safety, life-safety systems, evacuation protections, building safety codes, and hazard controls.

Human Subjects Protections

Human-subjects research protections and safeguards for research participants.

Research Privacy Confidentiality

Research privacy, confidentiality, data protection, and identifiable information provisions.

Research Informed Consent

Research consent, broad consent, consent documentation, and consent waiver provisions.

IRB Governance

IRB governance, IRB review, committee operation, and institutional research oversight.

Exempt Expedited Research

Exempt research, expedited review, and low-risk research provisions.

General Operations

Hospital operations requirements that do not fit a narrower category yet.

Facility Operations

Requirements about facility operations, bed and board, operating arrangements, administrative services, and operational conditions not limited to one clinical service.

Service Availability

Requirements about whether, when, where, and under what conditions services, benefits, practitioners, items, or care settings must be available or covered.

Definitions Context

Definitions, scope, and contextual provisions that help interpret operative requirements.

Scope Applicability

Scope, applicability, exemption, and eligibility provisions that determine when requirements apply.

Authority Preemption

Authority, preemption, and jurisdiction provisions that frame legal power and source hierarchy.

Incorporation Cross Reference

Incorporation by reference and cross-reference provisions that connect legal materials.

Outside Hospital Scope

Public-law material that does not directly belong in the hospital compliance library.

Source Placeholder

Reserved, rescinded, non-existent, placeholder, or non-substantive source material.

Needs Scope Review

Material that needs a scope or category review before normal library presentation.