Living In A Nursing Home
NRS 449A.114 — 30 calendar days' written notice before a transfer or discharge, and a meeting with the administrator
30 calendar days, and the Ombudsman. Before a Nevada facility for skilled nursing, facility for intermediate care or residential facility for groups transfers or discharges a patient, it gives the patient and the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman written notice of its intent at least 30 calendar days ahead, and within 10 calendar days after that notice lets the patient and anyone the patient authorizes meet in person with the administrator to discuss it.
The notice is not required for a transfer or discharge the patient asks for, or for a transfer the patient's condition makes immediately necessary to a higher level of care. Even then, a patient is transferred only after an explanation of the need and the alternatives, unless the patient's condition requires an immediate transfer and the patient cannot understand.
- Considerate and respectful care.
- Refusing treatment, as far as the law permits, and being told the consequences.
- Refusing to take part in medical experiments.
- Privacy in the patient's program of care, and confidentiality of discussions, examinations and records.
- Continuous care, and being told of appointments and of the need for continuing care.
Every patient of such a facility has those rights. The owner or administrator may not receive anything a resident leaves them by will, or life insurance on a resident, unless the owner or administrator is the resident's spouse, guardian or next of kin.
Visitation, billing information, the facility's licensing and federal nursing home rules are in other sections and other law not reproduced here. Whether a particular transfer or discharge was lawful is a question for a court and a licensed Nevada attorney.
Sources for this section (4)
- NRS 449A.114 — Certain facilities to notify patient and State Long-Term Care Ombudsman of intent to transfer patient
- NRS 449A.112 — Specific rights: Care; refusal of treatment and experimentation; privacy
- NRS 449A.100 — Facility to provide necessary services or arrange for transfer of patient
- NRS 449A.115 — Owner and administrator of certain facility prohibited from receiving certain money or property from resident or former resident
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Nevada attorney.