Missouri Revised Statutes Title XII. Public Health and Welfare § 197.280. Order authorizing entry for survey, grounds for

Whenever the department has reasonable grounds to believe that a hospice required to be certificated under sections 197.250 to 197.280 is operating without a certificate, and the department is not permitted access to survey the hospice, or when a certificated hospice refuses to permit access to the department to survey the hospice, the department shall apply to the circuit court of the county in which the premises are located for an order authorizing entry for such survey. The court shall issue the order if it finds reasonable grounds for the survey or if it finds that a certificated hospice has refused to permit the department access to survey the hospice.