NevadaNevada limits trauma centers’ claims about their care levels
Nevada law lets the health board set trauma-care levels and bars center operators from claiming a level without state designation.
What it does
The State Board of Health may set care levels for trauma centers, including level IV. If it adopts level IV rules, only certain remote critical access hospitals may receive that designation.
A trauma-center operator may claim a specific care level only if the state Administrator has designated the center to provide that level.
Argument forState-approved care levels could help patients and emergency crews understand what level of treatment a trauma center is designated to provide.
Argument againstIf the state adopts level IV rules, hospitals outside the stated distance and county limits could be unable to receive that designation, even if they provide trauma care.
More detail
The State Board of Health may adopt rules that set specific care levels for trauma centers, including levels I, II, III, and IV. The rules concern designations for hospitals that are centers for the treatment of trauma. If the Board adopts rules for level IV centers, only critical access hospitals more than 80 miles outside a county with two or more existing trauma centers may receive that designation. A critical access hospital is one certified as such by the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services. Sections 4 and 5 took effect for rulemaking and other preparatory tasks upon approval, and took effect for all other purposes on January 1, 2026.
A person operating a trauma center may not claim it provides a specific care level unless the state Administrator has designated it to provide that level. This applies to anyone operating a center for the treatment of trauma. The designation must be made under rules adopted by the State Board of Health. Section 4 took effect for rulemaking and other preparatory tasks upon approval, and took effect for all other purposes on January 1, 2026.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 418.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1Read second time.Minor
- May 31In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. From committee: Do pass.Minor
- May 30From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 29From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 856.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 23From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 21Notice of eligibility for exemption. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 432.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Mar 4From printer. To committee.
- Mar 3Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.Introduced
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