Nevada Revised Statutes Section 450.180 - Public Health and Safety

Employment or removal of employees or appointed persons; contract for medical services. The board of hospital trustees may:

1. Appoint a chief executive officer and necessary assistants, and fix their compensations.

2. Employ physicians and interns, either full-time or part-time, as the board determines necessary, and fix their compensations.

3. Remove those appointees and employees.

4. Control the admission of physicians and interns to the staff by promulgating appropriate rules, regulations and standards governing those appointments.

5. Contract with individual physicians or private medical associations for the provision of certain medical services as may be required by the hospital. The compensation provided for in the contract must not include compensation to the physician for services rendered to indigent patients.

Last modified: February 26, 2006