§ 135C.1 Definitions
§ 135C.2 Purpose — rules — special classifications — protection and advocacy agency
§ 135C.3 Nature of care
§ 135C.4 Residential care facilities
§ 135C.5 Limitations on use
§ 135C.6 License required — exemptions
§ 135C.7 Application — fees
§ 135C.8 Scope of license
§ 135C.9 Inspection before issuance — notice of deficiencies
§ 135C.10 Denial, suspension, or revocation
§ 135C.11 Notice — hearings
§ 135C.12 Conditional operation
§ 135C.13 Judicial review
§ 135C.14 Rules
§ 135C.15 Time to comply
§ 135C.16 Inspections
§ 135C.16A Inspectors — conflicts of interest
§ 135C.17 Duties of other departments
§ 135C.18 Employees
§ 135C.19 Public disclosure of inspection findings — posting of citations
§ 135C.20 Information distributed
§ 135C.20A Report cards — facility inspections — complaint procedures — availability to public — electronic access
§ 135C.20B Governor’s award — quality care
§ 135C.21 Penalties
§ 135C.22 Applicable to governmental units
§ 135C.23 Express requirements for admission or residence
§ 135C.24 Personal property or affairs of patients or residents
§ 135C.26 Director notified of casualties
§ 135C.27 Federal funds to implement program
§ 135C.28 Conflicting statutes
§ 135C.29 License list to county commissioner of elections
§ 135C.30 Operation of facility under receivership
§ 135C.31 Discharge of Medicaid patients
§ 135C.31A Assessment of residents — program eligibility — prescription drug coverage
§ 135C.32 Hospice services covered by Medicare
§ 135C.33 Employees and certified nurse aide trainees — child or dependent adult abuse information and criminal record check options — evaluations — application to other providers — penalty
§ 135C.34 Medication aide — certification
§ 135C.35 Training of inspectors
§ 135C.36 Violations classified — penalties
§ 135C.37 Complaints alleging violations — confidentiality
§ 135C.38 Inspections upon complaints
§ 135C.39 No advance notice of inspection — exception
§ 135C.40 Citations when violations found — penalties — exception
§ 135C.40A Issuance of final findings
§ 135C.41 Licensee’s response to citation
§ 135C.42 Informal conference on contested citation
§ 135C.43 Judicial review
§ 135C.43A Reduction of penalty amount
§ 135C.44 Treble fines for repeated violations
§ 135C.44A Double fines for intentional violations
§ 135C.45 Refund of penalty
§ 135C.45A Notification penalty
§ 135C.46 Retaliation by facility prohibited
§ 135C.48 Information about complaint procedure

Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 135C - Health Care Facilities

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Board: means the board of hearing aid specialists. See Iowa Code 154A.1
  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the Iowa department of public health. See Iowa Code 154A.1
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Intellectual disability: means a diagnosis of intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder which diagnosis shall be made only when the onset of the person's condition was during the developmental period and based on an assessment of the person's intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • lawful enforcement: includes but is not limited to the following:
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • License: means a license issued by the state under this chapter to a hearing aid specialist. See Iowa Code 154A.1
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
  • persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1