As used in the Nursing Home Administrators Act:

1. A. "board" means the board of nursing home administrators;
2. B. "nursing home administrator" means any individual who is responsible for planning, organizing, directing and controlling the operation of a nursing home or who shares such functions with one or more persons in operating a nursing home;
3. C. "nursing home" means any nursing institution or facility required to be licensed under state law as a nursing facility by the public health division of the department of health, whether proprietary or nonprofit, including skilled nursing home facilities, and whether a separate entity or a part of a medical institutional facility; and
4. D. "practice of nursing home administration" means the planning, organizing, directing and control of the operation of a nursing home.

History: 1953 Comp., § 67-37-2, enacted by Laws 1970, ch. 61, § 2; 1993, ch. 245, § 1.

ANNOTATIONS

Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-13-17 NMSA 1978.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, made stylistic changes in Subsection B, and substituted "facility by the public health division of the department of health" for "home by the health and social services department" and deleted "extended care facilities" before "skilled nursing home facilities" in Subsection C.

Intermediate care facility for mentally retarded properly licensed by the health and social services department (now health care authority department) as an intermediate care facility is not a nursing home as defined by this section; its administrator is not, therefore, required to be licensed as a nursing home administrator. 1988 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 88-48.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 40A Am. Jur. 2d Hospitals and Asylums § 3.

7 C.J.S. Asylums § 1.