144A.05 LICENSE RENEWAL.
Unless the license expires in accordance with section
144A.06 or is suspended or revoked in
accordance with section
144A.11, a nursing home license shall remain effective for a period of
one year from the date of its issuance. The commissioner of health by rule shall establish forms
and procedures for the processing of license renewals. The commissioner of health shall approve
a license renewal application if the facility continues to satisfy the requirements, standards and
conditions prescribed by sections
144A.01 to
144A.155 and the rules promulgated thereunder.
The commissioner shall not approve the renewal of a license for a nursing home bed in a
resident room with more than four beds. Except as provided in section
144A.08, a facility shall
not be required to submit with each application for a license renewal additional copies of the
architectural and engineering plans and specifications of the facility. Before approving a license
renewal, the commissioner of health shall determine that the facility's most recent balance sheet
and its most recent statement of revenues and expenses, as audited by the state auditor, by a
certified public accountant licensed by this state or by a public accountant as defined in section
412.222, have been received by the Department of Human Services.
History: 1976 c 173 s 5; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1977 c 326 s 3; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1987 c 384
art 2 s 1; 1987 c 403 art 4 s 2; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 5 s 40