SECTION .1400 ‑ HOSPITALS: OTHER HEALTH FACILITIES

21 NCAC 46 .1401             REGISTRATION AND PERMITS

(a)  All Health Care Facilities providing services within the practice of pharmacy shall apply for and receive a pharmacy permit as provided in G.S. 90-85.21.

(b)  Physically separate dispensing areas operated by a Health Care Facility are not required to secure separate permits if those dispensing areas are contained in the same building as the permitted pharmacy or contained in a building located on property contiguous to the permitted pharmacy. However, even as to dispensing areas otherwise within the coverage of this Paragraph, a separate permit is required for a physically separate dispensing area for which the majority of its activity is dispensing drugs to or compounding drugs for a patient's use outside the Health Care Facility.

(c)  Nothing in these rules shall be construed to require the registration with the Board of those Health Care Facilities in which there occurs only the administration of drugs.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 90‑85.6; 90‑85.21;

Eff. April 1, 1983;

Amended Eff. May 1, 1997; May 1, 1989; March 1, 1984;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 3, 2017;

Amended Eff. November 1, 2024.