No person shall conduct or maintain a maternity
home or engage in conducting a business of attending women during
pregnancy, labor or lying-in period outside their several homes without
first having obtained a license therefor from the Board covering all
the premises intended to be so used.
Every application for such license shall state
the following:
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
The license fee for conducting a maternity home shall be as set forth in Chapter 145, Fees. The fee is intended to be an annual fee but, when paid, shall cover only the balance of the calendar year during which the same is so paid or payable.
A.
Every license granted under this article shall contain
a limitation upon the number of patients who may be cared for in the
licensed premises at any one time, and such limitations shall be determined
solely by the Division of Health, based upon the number of rooms available
in the licensed premises for the care of patients, their size, height
and such other factors as may bear upon the services contemplated
to be rendered.
B.
The number of women cared for during pregnancy, labor
or lying-in period shall at no time exceed the number authorized or
permitted by the terms of the license.
The licensee shall at all times keep and maintain
complete records in the form to be prescribed by the Board and covering
the name, age, color, religion, place of residence and such other
information concerning the care, maintenance, treatment and progress
of all customers, patrons and patients, together with full and complete
records of any and every kind concerning births, deaths, disease or
illness as are now or hereafter may be required by an regulation of
law, statute or ordinance.
All records required to be kept under this article
shall be open to inspection, check and audit by the Division of Health
or any of its duly authorized representatives.
The provisions of this article shall not apply
to any institution or department maintained or operated by the state
or by any county, municipality or subdivision thereof or a hospital
duly licensed by the State Board of Control of the Department of Institutions
and Agencies.
No maternity home shall be operated in conjunction
with a boarding home for children.
No women or infants shall be kept, cared for
or administered to within any place or building not designated in
the license.
In addition, the same regulations shall apply to the conduct and maintenance of a maternity home and the premises and buildings used in connection therewith as are provided in Article III regarding the conduct and maintenance of boarding homes for children.
