(b) is directed toward providing communitybased care for in need of a supportive setting for less than twentyfour hours a day to prevent unnecessary institutionalization; and (c) provides a minimum of four and a maximum of fourteen hours of operation a day. (5) means the Department of Health and ‘Department’ Environmental Control. (6) care facility’ means, at a minimum, acute care ‘Health hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, alcohol and substance abuse hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgical facilities, hospice facilities, radiation therapy facilities, rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents, intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disability, and narcotic treatment programs. (7) service’ means clinically related, diagnostic, ‘Health treatment, or rehabilitative services and includes alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health. (8) means a facility organized and administered to ‘Hospital’ provide overnight medical or surgical care or nursing care of illness, injury, or infirmity in which all diagnoses, treatment, or care is administered by or under the direction of persons currently licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathyand which may provide obstetrical care and include residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents in need of mental health treatment which are physically a part of a licensed psychiatric hospital, not including facilities which are licensed by the Department of Social Services. (9) home’ means a facility with an organized nursing ‘Nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twentyfour hours which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing intermediate or skilled nursing care for persons who are not in need of hospital care. (10) for chemically dependent or addicted persons’ ‘Facility means a facility organized to provide outpatient or residential services to chemically dependent or addicted persons and their families based on an individual treatment plan including diagnostic treatment, individual and group counseling, family therapy, vocational and educational development counseling, and referral services. (11) means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, ‘Person’ a corporation including an association, joint stock company, insurance
(b) is directed toward providing communitybased care for in need of a supportive setting for less than twentyfour hours a day to prevent unnecessary institutionalization; and (c) provides a minimum of four and a maximum of fourteen hours of operation a day. (5) ‘Department’ means the Department of Health and Environmental Control. (6) ‘Health care facility’ means, at a minimum, acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, alcohol and substance abuse hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgical facilities, hospice facilities, radiation therapy facilities, rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents, intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disability, and narcotic treatment programs. (7) ‘Health service’ means clinically related, diagnostic, treatment, or rehabilitative services and includes alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health. (8) ‘Hospital’ means a facility organized and administered to provide overnight medical or surgical care or nursing care of illness, injury, or infirmity in which all diagnoses, treatment, or care is administered by or under the direction of persons currently licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathyand which may provide obstetrical care and include residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents in need of mental health treatment which are physically a part of a licensed psychiatric hospital, not including facilities which are licensed by the Department of Social Services. (9) ‘Nursing home’ means a facility with an organized nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twentyfour hours which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing intermediate or skilled nursing care for persons who are not in need of hospital care. (10) ‘Facility for chemically dependent or addicted persons’ means a facility organized to provide outpatient or residential services to chemically dependent or addicted persons and their families based on an individual treatment plan including diagnostic treatment, individual and group counseling, family therapy, vocational and educational development counseling, and referral services. (11) ‘Person’ means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, a corporation including an association, joint stock company, insurance
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