Care-facility inspections
How nursing homes and care facilities in Mississippi are inspected, licensed, and held to account.
6 laws · 6 enforcement actions · 5 guides · 4 court decisions
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The laws 6
- Miss. Code Ann. §43-11-1 et seq. (Mississippi's "Institutions for the Aged or Infirm" licensing act, originally Chapter 451, Laws of Mississippi Regular Session 1979): requires a state license to establish, conduct, manage or operate a nurs… msdh.ms.gov
- Miss. Code Ann. §43-11-13: within the same "Institutions for the Aged or Infirm" chapter, the specific statutory authority for MSDH to license and regulate Mississippi's two personal-care-home categories, "Personal Care Home - Assisted Livi… msdh.ms.gov
- Miss. Code Ann. §43-11-23: the judicial-review provision of the Institutions for the Aged or Infirm Act: a facility applicant or licensee dissatisfied with a final MSDH decision revoking, suspending, or denying a license, or with an enforce… msdh.ms.gov
- Miss. Code Ann. §41-71-1 through §41-71-19, the Mississippi Home Health Agency licensing act: the statutory basis for MSDH's minimum standards of operation for home health agencies msdh.ms.gov
- Miss. Code Ann. §41-85-1 through §41-85-25, the "Mississippi Hospice Law of 1995" (enacted as House Bill 379, 1995 Regular Session): the statutory licensing act for hospices, administered by MSDH's Bureau of Health Facilities Licensure and… msdh.ms.gov
- Miss. Code Ann. §41-7-195, part of the Mississippi Health Care Certificate of Need Law of 1979: governs the validity and duration of a Certificate of Need (CON), which MSDH must issue before a healthcare facility (including nursing homes an… courts.ms.gov
Know your rights 5
- MSDH "About the Health Facilities Licensure Division" page: describes HFLC's scope (licensing hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, personal care homes/assisted living, ICF-IID, PRTFs, and more), its routine-survey/follo… msdh.ms.gov
- MSDH "Make a Health Facility Complaint" page: the consumer-facing guide/portal for filing a complaint against any MSDH-licensed nursing home, personal care home, or other health/care facility, by phone (800-227-7308) or online form, with th… msdh.ms.gov
- MSDH "CMP Grants for Long-Term Care Providers" page: describes the Civil Money Penalty (CMP) Grant awards program, through which federally-imposed CMP funds already collected from nursing facilities are reinvested (via applications from cer… msdh.ms.gov
- MSDH "Certificates of Need" program page: explains that Mississippi's Certificate of Need process, which governs construction/expansion of health facilities (including nursing homes and other HFLC-licensed facility types) and major capital… msdh.ms.gov
- MSDH "Long-Term Care" page: a consumer resource hub linking Mississippians to alternatives to nursing-home placement (the Medicaid Elderly and Disabled Waiver, Assisted Living Waiver, ID/DD Waiver, TBI/SCI Waiver, and Bridge to Independence… msdh.ms.gov
Enforcement actions
None on file yet — the federal backstop still applies.
Orders & settlements 6
- Title 15, Part 16, Subpart 1 Mississippi Administrative Code (MSDH Health Facilities Licensure and Certification), Chapter 45: "Minimum Standards for Institutions for the Aged or Infirm" (nursing homes): licensure application/renewal, physi… msdh.ms.gov
- Title 15 MS Admin Code Chapter 47: "Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes - Assisted Living": Mississippi's assisted-living facility licensing rule (definitions, license types, admission/retention criteria, staffing, fire safety, reside… msdh.ms.gov
- Title 15 MS Admin Code Chapter 48: "Minimum Standards for Personal Care Homes - Residential Living": Mississippi's residential-living personal-care-home licensing rule, including a rule requiring both Assisted Living and Residential persona… msdh.ms.gov
- Title 15 MS Admin Code Chapter 46: "Minimum Standards of Operation for Home Health Agencies" msdh.ms.gov
- Title 15 MS Admin Code: "Minimum Standards of Operation for Hospices" (effective January 2023), implementing the Mississippi Hospice Law of 1995 msdh.ms.gov
- Title 15 MS Admin Code Chapter 83: "Minimum Standards for Adult Foster Care Facilities" (effective Nov. 10, 2019): the closest MSDH-published licensure category to a small-group adult residential/supervised-care setting; msdh.ms.gov
Court decisions 4
- Manhattan Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC, Ashley Bouldin, LPN and Fredia Harvey, LPN v. courts.ms.gov
- Emile Dalon, in his individual capacity as wrongful death beneficiary of Carol Ann Dalon, deceased, and the Estate of Carol Ann Dalon v. courts.ms.gov
- Londa Molden and April Avery v. Mississippi State Department of Health, Mississippi Supreme Court No. 97-CC-00454-SCT, 730 So. 2d 29 (Miss. courts.ms.gov
- Dialysis Solution, LLC v. Mississippi State Department of Health, Dr. Mary Currier, in Her Capacity as the Executive Director of the Department of Health, State of Mississippi, and RCG-Montgomery County, LLC, Mississippi Supreme Court No. courts.ms.gov
Official notices 2
- MSDH Health Facilities Licensure and Certification's "Directory of Mississippi Health Facilities" (edition dated Aug. msdh.ms.gov
- MSDH Health Facilities Licensure & Certification's official public handout, "How to File a Health Facility Complaint," giving the agency's mailing address and toll-free Complaint Hotline for consumers to report concerns about a licensed nur… msdh.ms.gov