The department, with the advice and approval of the hospital licensing board and approval of the state board of health, shall adopt rules setting out the standards for the different types of hospitals to be licensed under this chapter. The department shall enforce the rules. Rules or standards shall not be adopted or enforced which would have the effect of denying a license to a hospital or other institution required to be licensed, solely by reason of the school or system of practice employed or permitted to be employed by physicians in the hospital, if the school or system of practice is recognized by the laws of this state.
The rules shall state that a hospital shall not deny clinical privileges to physicians and surgeons, podiatric physicians, osteopaths, osteopathic surgeons, dentists, or certified health service providers in psychology licensed under chapter 148, 149, 150, 150A, or 153, or section 154B.7 solely by reason of the license held by the practitioner or solely by reason of the school or institution in which the practitioner received medical schooling or postgraduate training if the medical schooling or postgraduate training was accredited by an organization recognized by the council on postsecondary accreditation or an accrediting group recognized by the United States department of education. A hospital may establish procedures for interaction between a patient and a practitioner. Nothing in the rules shall prohibit a hospital from limiting, restricting, or revoking clinical privileges of a practitioner for violation of hospital rules, regulations, or procedures established under this paragraph, when applied in good faith and in a nondiscriminatory manner. Nothing in this paragraph shall require a hospital to expand the hospital's current scope of service delivery solely to offer the services of a class of providers not currently providing services at the hospital. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a hospital to establish rules which are inconsistent with the scope of practice established for licensure of practitioners to whom this paragraph applies. This section shall not be construed to authorize the denial of clinical privileges to a practitioner or class of practitioners solely because a hospital has as employees of the hospital identically licensed practitioners providing the same or similar services.
The rules shall require that a hospital establish and implement written criteria for the granting of clinical privileges. The written criteria shall include but are not limited to consideration of the ability of an applicant for privileges to provide patient care services independently and appropriately in the hospital; the license held by the applicant to practice; training, experience, and competence of the applicant; and the relationship between the applicant's request for the granting of privileges and the hospital's current scope of patient care services, as well as the hospital's determination of the necessity to grant privileges to a practitioner authorized to provide comprehensive, appropriate, and cost-effective services.
The department shall adopt rules requiring hospitals to establish and implement protocols for responding to the needs of patients who are victims of domestic abuse, as defined in section 236.2.
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135B.7]
83 Acts, ch 101, § 16; 85 Acts, ch 169, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1093, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1204, § 6; 91 Acts, ch 218, §3; 93 Acts, ch 108, § 1; 96 Acts, ch 1034, § 68
Referred to in § 135B.5
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