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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-358" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Hospitals and Related Institutions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may not operate a hospital or related institution unless issued a registration permit or licensed by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A hospital may not provide or hold itself out as providing comprehensive physical rehabilitation services, as defined in § 19-1201 of this title, or operate as a special rehabilitation hospital unless the hospital is classified as a special rehabilitation hospital by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Unless a health care facility is classified as a special rehabilitation hospital by the Secretary, a health care facility may only offer those physical rehabilitation services which are appropriate and necessary to the care, treatment, or support of the acute, chronic disease, or long-term care patient.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 for the first offense and not exceeding $10,000 for each subsequent conviction for a violation of the same provision. Each day a violation is continued after the first conviction is a subsequent offense.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary may impose a civil money penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each offense under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
