Eight modules, plus two bonus lessons included at no extra charge · ten quizzes and a final assessment · about five hours · Rs. 6,999
Before the First Admission: Opening a Nursing Home or Hospital in Maharashtra
What the law asks before a nursing home or hospital in Maharashtra admits its first patient: registration, the building and fire, licences, equipment, people, money, quality marks and the first year.
In short
Who it is for. Doctors, and owners, investors, trustees and managers of nursing homes and hospitals. The law taught is Maharashtra’s; Sheet 6 helps you find your own State’s law if you are elsewhere.
What you learn. What the law asks before the first admission: registration and who may manage, the building and fire, licences by service, equipment, people, schemes and insurers, quality marks, and opening day and the first year.
What you get. Eight modules, course sheets that are demonstration templates for learning, two bonus lessons included at no extra charge, ten quizzes and a final assessment, and a certificate of completion. One payment, twelve months of access from the day you enrol.
Free, without enrolling.The Day-One Checklist for a new nursing home in Maharashtra.
Module one and its quiz open without payment and without a card. The course is general education about the law, not advice on your own project.
For doctors, and owners, investors, trustees and managers of nursing homes and hospitals. It is about opening a nursing home or hospital in Maharashtra. The course takes the law in the order a project meets it: what you are opening, and who may own and manage it; whether the building can be used at all, and fire; the licences each service needs; equipment, before you buy; the people you employ and what you owe them; schemes, insurers and finance; what a quality mark is and what it is not; and opening day and the first year. Two bonus lessons follow, included at no extra charge: taking over an existing nursing home, and consent, records and the first complaint. The law taught is the law as it applies in Maharashtra. If you are in another State, Sheet 6 helps you find your own State’s law; it points the way only, and does not teach that law. Every module says where the law we read is not settled, and lists the law read for it. The course sheets are demonstration templates for learning. The examples are invented for teaching; names and figures are illustrative. It is general education about the law. It is not advice on your own project, it does not review your documents, and it gives no tax, GST or foreign investment view: those questions go to your own chartered accountant and advocate.
Prepared and taught by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, Medicolegal Consultant and Founder, DoctorLawyer™, in consultation with a High Court advocate.
8modules
2bonus lessons, included at no extra charge
10quizzes and a final assessment
8course sheets (Sheets 1, 1A and 2 to 7), plus the Day-One Checklist
4.9hours in total
Twelvemonths of access from the day you enrol
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 6,999
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, every quiz, the final assessment and the certificate. A change of price never applies to a course you have already paid for.
Read module one first, freeNo card, nothing charged
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What you will be able to do when you have finished
Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.
Explain why the Maharashtra nursing homes law, not the Central Clinical Establishments Act, registers nursing homes in Maharashtra, and how to check your own State; who the local supervising authority is; and why the bed count is not the test.
Put the land, building and fire approvals in the order the law asks for them, and know what to ask before you sign a lease.
Find the licence or registration each service needs before it is first used: pharmacy, imaging, sonography, termination of pregnancy, blood, bio-medical waste and more.
Read a dealer’s quotation for the points the law speaks to: X-ray, ultrasound, implants and their ceiling prices.
Check who may treat, the staffing norms, and your first duties as an employer.
Tell what scheme empanelment and insurers require, and what the law does and does not promise about payment.
Explain what a quality mark is, and why it is not a licence.
Prepare for opening day and the first year: what to display, what to give patients, and a renewal calendar.
How much of your time this takes
About five hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on whichever device you open it on, one device at a time.
Eight modules, 18,925 words
about 105 minutes
The handouts: eight course sheets (Sheets 1, 1A and 2 to 7) and the Day-One Checklist, with each module’s checklist for learning, 7,164 words, to read now and use later
about 36 minutes
Ten quizzes and a final assessment: 51 questions in the module and bonus quizzes, and 20 in the final assessment, with the reason explained on every answer
about 118 minutes
The questions to think through, and the law read for each module
about 14 minutes
The two bonus lessons, included at no extra charge: taking over a nursing home; consent, records and the first complaint
about 22 minutes
Everything, 36,247 words
about 4 hours 55 minutes
The law taught is the law as it applies in Maharashtra; Sheet 6 helps a learner in another State find that State’s own law, as signposting only. Every module says where the law is not settled. Each sheet is a demonstration template for learning.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About five to twenty minutes of reading each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Legal rules are tied to the case, section or regulation they rest on, and our own readings are marked as such. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: Sheet 1, which law registers you, and Sheet 1A, the fee grades; Sheet 2, questions before you sign a lease; Sheet 3, a service to licence finder; Sheet 4, an opening-day file in four parts (equipment, people, payers and the first day); Sheet 5, a renewal calendar; Sheet 6, check your State; Sheet 7, questions for your chartered accountant and advocate; and the Day-One Checklist.
2
A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five or six applied questions on modules one to eight, and three or five on each bonus lesson: a situation, and what the law says. The pass mark is on each quiz: four out of five, or five out of six; two out of three on Bonus 1, and four out of five on Bonus 2. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.
3
A final assessment across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Twenty questions from across the course, fifteen out of twenty to pass. Retake it as often as you need.
4
A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final assessment are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion: not a diploma, not a certification, not recognised by any Medical Council, the National Medical Commission, any university or any Bar body, and it carries no continuing medical education credit.
The modules
01What are you opening, and who may own it?You will be able to say how the Maharashtra Act and the Central Act define what they register, and why the bed count is not the test in Maharashtra; tell whether the Central Clinical Establishments Act or a State law registers you, and find out for your own State; name the local supervising authority for a Maharashtra address, the steps of the first application, its one-month minimum notice, and that we found no rule fixing a decision time; state what the Maharashtra Act asks about the person who manages a nursing home, and what, in the two Acts we read, we did not find on ownership; spot the professional-conduct rules that bind doctors who own, manage or work in a nursing home, and list what investors and owners should take to their chartered accountant and advocate.Open first
02Can it be here? Land, building and fireYou will be able to say which planning rules govern a site in Maharashtra, and why Mumbai's rules and the rest of the State's are never mixed; put the approvals for a new building in their legal order, and tell what the law says from what happens in practice; list the questions that matter most when renting or converting an existing building; name the fire duties of the owner and of the occupier that continue after opening, and what the Act says when they are not met; spot the building-side items (lifts, oxygen, generator, electricity, pollution consent) that need their own check.30 min
03Which licences does each service need?You will be able to name the approvals that commonly arise for a bedded nursing home, and the bio-medical waste duties that start on the first day; match a planned service (ultrasound, X-ray, pharmacy, blood, narcotic painkillers, transplant, fertility, mental health, food) to the law that licenses it, and know which services this module could not read at an official source; tell which approvals the texts require before a service starts, and which duties recur; know where this course has not read a law at an official source, and what to ask instead.30 min
04Equipment: what the law asks before you buyYou will be able to spot, in a dealer's quotation, the points the law speaks to before you buy; explain why stocking devices, and stocking and billing implants, may bring a hospital within the seller's rules, and why that is unsettled; state what the X-ray safety code asks of the person who procures X-ray equipment; explain what the ceiling price orders for coronary stents and knee implants say, and what is unsettled about how they reach a hospital's bill.25 min
05People: who may do what, and what you owe your staffYou will be able to spot, in a staffing plan, the points the law speaks to before the first admission; name the registration each kind of clinician must hold, and the work it bars others from doing; state the Maharashtra staffing norms for a nursing home of ten beds and above, and for an ICU; explain what the sexual harassment law asks of every employer, and what the Maharashtra law on violence against medicare staff does and does not do; know which employment questions this course sends to a labour adviser or CA.25 min
06Money: schemes, insurers and financeYou will be able to spot, in a business plan, the assumptions about payers and loans that the texts read do not support; state the minimum criteria the national health assurance scheme sets for empanelling a private hospital, and the point Maharashtra hospitals must check; explain what the insurance regulator's cashless timelines bind, and whom; know what this course leaves to your bank and your CA.25 min
07Quality marks: what accreditation is, and what it is notYou will be able to tell a licence from a quality mark; describe the two NABH routes for hospitals, their cycles and the published entry-level fees, as read; explain what accreditation may change under the national health assurance scheme, and why that depends on the State.15 min
08Opening day and the first yearYou will be able to list what the Maharashtra rules require a nursing home to display and give patients from the first admission; state the rules on emergencies, discharge and the body when a bill is unpaid; name the reporting duties that start with the first admission: free treatment and police intimation for listed offences, notifiable diseases, and cause-of-death certificates; explain what the national medical regulator's 2026 guidelines allow a new hospital to announce; know what the course leaves open on liability, insurance and data.30 min
B1Taking over an existing nursing home: what transfers, and what does not Bonus 1, includedAfter this lesson you will be able to explain why buying a running nursing home does not buy its registrations; name the approvals the texts read say cannot pass to a new owner without the authority, and those where the texts are silent; know which questions about a takeover belong to your advocate, your CA and your labour adviser.Bonus, included · 15 min
B2Consent, records and the first complaint Bonus 2, includedAfter this lesson you will be able to explain why a signed form is evidence of consent, not consent itself, and who may consent for whom; keep treatment consent, photograph permission and data consent apart; answer a request for records lawfully and on time; take the first steps when a complaint arrives, without making it worse.Bonus, included · 20 min
About the two bonus lessons
The two bonus lessons are included and cost nothing extra. Bonus 1 explains what transfers, and what does not, when you take over an existing nursing home. Bonus 2 covers consent, records and the first complaint. Each has its own short scored quiz if you want one. They sit outside the eight modules: they are not in the final assessment and they are not needed for the certificate.
The small printEducation, not advice on your matter. Not clinical teaching. No outcome promised.
This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the primer is advice about any particular patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.
It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to treat anybody.
Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.
Where a matter needs a lawyer, we say so. Representation before any forum, and any formal legal opinion, is arranged separately with a High Court advocate and is charged separately.
The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.
