Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 323D > Part I - General Provisions

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Assisted living facility: means a combination of housing, health care services, and personalized support services designed to respond to individual needs, and to promote choice, responsibility, independence, privacy, dignity, and individuality. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Board: means the board of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Capital expenditure: means any purchase or transfer of money or anything of value or enforceable promise or agreement to purchase or transfer money or anything of value incurred by or in behalf of any person for construction, expansion, alteration, conversion, development, initiation, or modification as defined in this section. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Certificate of need: means an authorization, when required pursuant to § 323D-43, to construct, expand, alter, or convert a health care facility or to initiate, expand, develop, or modify a health care service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Continuing education: means courses approved by the American Psychological Association, the Hawaii Psychological Association, or other state or provincial psychological associations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Expenditure minimum: means $4,000,000 for capital expenditures, $1,000,000 for new or replacement medical equipment and $400,000 for used medical equipment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Extended care adult residential care home: means an adult residential care home providing twenty-four-hour living accommodation for a fee, for adults unrelated to the licensee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Health: includes physical and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care service: include any program, institution, place, building, or agency, or portion thereof, private or public, other than federal facilities or services, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• health care services: means the provision of services in an assisted living facility that assists the resident in achieving and maintaining the highest state of positive well-being (i. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Licensed: means the authority to engage in the autonomous practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• modify: includes the erection, building, reconstruction, modernization, improvement, purchase, acquisition, or establishment of a health care facility or health care service; the purchase or acquisition of equipment attendant to the delivery of health care service and the instruction or supervision therefor; the arrangement or commitment for financing the offering or development of a health care facility or health care service; any obligation for a capital expenditure by a health care facility; and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other actions necessary for any such undertaking, which will:

  (1) Result in a total capital expenditure in excess of the expenditure minimum,

  (2) Substantially modify, decrease, or increase the scope or type of health service rendered, or

  (3) Increase, decrease, or change the class of usage of the bed complement of a health care facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2

• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is legally authorized to practice medicine and surgery by the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Primary care clinic: means a clinic for outpatient services providing all preventive and routine health care services, management of chronic diseases, consultation with specialists when necessary, and coordination of care across health care settings or multiple providers or both. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Psychologist: means a person who offers to the public or renders to individuals or to groups of individuals services defined as the practice of psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 465-1
• State agency: means the state health planning and development agency established in § 323D-11. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Statewide council: means the statewide health coordinating council established in § 323D-13. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
• Subarea: means one of the geographic subareas designated by the state agency pursuant to section 323D-21. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2