Nevada Code § 450.140

Meetings of board; quorum; closed meetings
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1. The board of hospital trustees shall
hold meetings at least once each month, and shall keep a complete record of all
its transactions.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 241.0355 :
(a) In counties where three county commissioners
are not members of the board, three members of the board constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business.
(b) And except as otherwise provided in paragraph
(c), in counties where three county commissioners are members of the board, any
five of the members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
(c) In counties where the board of county
commissioners is the board of hospital trustees, a majority of the board
constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
3. The board of hospital trustees or any
hospital governing board appointed pursuant to NRS 450.175 may hold a closed meeting
exempt from the provisions of chapter 241 of
NRS to discuss:
(a) Providing a new health care service at the
county hospital or materially expanding a health care service that is currently
provided by the county hospital;
(b) The acquisition of an additional facility by
the county hospital or the material expansion of an existing facility of the
county hospital;
(c) Matters before a review committee to
deliberate the character, alleged misconduct, professional competence or
physical or mental health of a provider of health care; or
(d) Matters related to a medical audit or the
quality assurance programs of the county hospital.
4. The provisions of subsection 3 must not
be construed to:
(a) Authorize the board of hospital trustees or
the hospital governing board to hold a closed meeting to discuss a change of
management or ownership or the dissolution of the county hospital; or
(b) Prohibit the public from obtaining a report
that is otherwise available to the public pursuant to state or federal law.
5. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, minutes of a closed meeting held pursuant to subsection 3, any
supporting material and any recording or transcript of the closed meeting
become public records 5 years after the date on which the meeting is held or
when the board of hospital trustees or hospital governing board, as applicable,
determines that the matters discussed no longer require confidentiality,
whichever occurs first. Minutes of a closed meeting held pursuant to subsection
3, any supporting material and any recording or transcript of the closed
meeting that contains privileged information are not public records. Nothing in
this section shall be construed to limit the disclosure of information that is
discoverable as part of a legal proceeding or pursuant to court order.
6. As used in this section:
(a) Provider of health care has the meaning
ascribed to it in NRS 629.031 .
(b) Review committee has the meaning ascribed
to it in NRS 49.117 .

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