1. Any person or entity, including, without limitation, the Division, that determines the placement of a person with a mental illness or a person with a developmental disability in a mental health facility, medical facility or facility for the dependent, with a provider of community-based living arrangement services or any other placement shall, when making such a determination, consider whether the mental health facility, medical facility, facility for the dependent, provider of community-based living arrangement services or other placement is capable of:
(a) Adequately addressing the needs of the person for care and services, including, without limitation, the administration of medication; and
(b) Ensuring the safety of the person in the event of a fire or other emergency.
2. As used in this section:
(a) “Community-based living arrangement services” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433.605.
(b) “Facility for the dependent” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0045.
(c) “Medical facility” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0151.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1408)
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