Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 6 > Part X - Strawberries

• Acquired brain injury: means an injury to the brain that has occurred after birth and is not hereditary, congenital, or degenerative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Adult: means an individual eighteen years of age or older. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Adult day health care: means a medical model adult day health care program designed to provide services for medical, nursing, social, care management, and personal care needs to adults who are functionally impaired. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.42
• Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Behavioral services: means services that identify maladaptive behaviors which interfere with the persons safe integration into the community and the formulation of an inclusive behavior management program to decrease identified maladaptive behaviors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Board: shall mean the Louisiana Strawberry Marketing Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:730.2
• Brain injury: means an acquired or traumatic injury to the brain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Certified nurse aide: means a certified nursing assistant or certified nurse aide employed by a nursing facility or contracted by a nursing facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.51
• Certified nurse aide: means an individual who has completed a Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program approved by the state as meeting the requirements of 42 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Client: means an individual receiving care from an adult brain injury facility and shall include only individuals who are medically stable and do not require an IV, feeding tube, or other artificial or mechanical supports for life sustaining processes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Cognitive rehabilitation: means a systematic, functionally oriented service of therapeutic cognitive activities based on an assessment and an understanding of the behavior of a client. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:730.2
• Community integration: means the participation in the mainstream of community life and maintaining social relationships with family members, peers, and others in the community who do not have brain injuries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.51
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.42
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Department: shall mean the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:730.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health or any office or agency thereof designated by the secretary of the department to administer the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Dialysis: means a process by which dissolved substances are removed from an individual's body by diffusion, osmosis, and convection (ultrafiltration) from one fluid compartment to another across a semipermeable membrane. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• End stage renal disease: means that stage of renal impairment that appears irreversible and permanent and that requires a regular course of dialysis or kidney transplantation to maintain life. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• ESRD facility: means a facility that provides dialysis treatment or dialysis training to individuals diagnosed with end stage renal disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Financial viability: means that the provider seeking a home- and community-based service provider license is able to provide verification and maintenance of:

              (a) A line of credit issued from a federally insured, licensed lending institution in the amount of at least fifty thousand dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2

• Functional limitations: means actual behaviors or mental or physical disabilities exhibited by adults with brain injuries or conditions presented by their environments, or both, that shall be modified or minimized in order for clients to fulfill their potential or maximize their functioning. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• functionally impaired adults: shall mean individuals aged seventeen years of age and older who are physically, mentally, or socially impaired to a degree that supervision is necessary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2
• Functionally impaired adults: means persons seventeen years of age or older who are physically or mentally impaired to a degree that they are in need of supervision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.42
• Healthcare facility: means any person, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity licensed pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Home- and community-based service provider: means an agency, institution, society, corporation, person or persons, or any other individual or group that provides one or more home- and community-based services as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2
• Home- and community-based services: means one or more of the following services:

              (a) Personal care attendant services, which are defined as services required by a person with a disability in order to become physically independent or to remain in or return to the community. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2

• Impairment: means any loss or abnormality of psychological, cognitive, physiological, or anatomical structure or functioning. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Infirm elderly: means an individual sixty years of age or older who requires continuous care and supervision due to the infirmities of old age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2
• Liability: means a debt arising out of a transaction where goods or services have been received or rendered which must be liquidated, renewed, or refunded at some future date. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Licensee: means any nursing agency properly licensed in accordance with this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Medical staffing agency: means any agency, institution, society, corporation, person or persons, or any other group that provides, for profit, the services of certified nurse aides to a nursing facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.51
• Medication management program: means a systematic, functionally oriented program formulated in consultation with the client's primary provider, and implemented by staff trained by a nursing director. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Membership service: means service as an employee rendered while a member of the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
• Nurse: means a registered nurse as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Nurse staffing agency: means any person, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity that employs, assigns, or refers nurses or certified nurse aides to render healthcare services in a healthcare facility for a fee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Nursing director: means a person who meets the legal requirement of a registered nurse in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Nursing facility: means a nursing home licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.51
• Official forecast: means the most recently adopted estimate of money available for appropriation by the Revenue Estimating Conference as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, company, association, corporation, limited liability company, and any other legal entity or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:730.2
• person with a disability: shall mean a person with a physical, mental, or medical condition or an adult who requires assistance with activities of daily living. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.2
• Personal care: means services and supports including but not limited to:

              (a) Bathing, hair care, skin care, shaving, nail care, oral hygiene, overall hygiene, and activities of daily living. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33

• Primary provider: means a provider board certified in his specialty who currently holds a valid license in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Prior service: means service rendered prior to July 1, 1947, for which credit is allowable under Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
• Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• provider: means any place owned or operated for profit or nonprofit by a person, society, agency, corporation, institution, or any other group wherein two or more functionally impaired adults who are not related to the owner or operator of such agency are provided with adult day health care services, as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.42
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Rehabilitation: means the process of providing those comprehensive services deemed appropriate to the needs of a client in a coordinated manner in a program designed to achieve functional objectives of improved health, welfare, maximum physical, cognitive, social, psychological, and community functioning. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Rehabilitative treatment environment: means a rehabilitation setting that provides for all of the following:

              (a) A provision of a range of choices, with personal preference, self-determination, and dignity of risk receiving full respect and consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33

• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health or his designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.51
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health or his designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.13
• Strawberries: means all strawberries of the grades as recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Market Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:730.2
• Support: means activities, materials, equipment, or other services designed and implemented to assist the client with a brain injury. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Therapeutic recreational services: means services that identify leisure activities and assistance in modifying and adapting identified leisure activities to allow safe participation by the client as a means to improve quality of life and aid in integration into the community. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33
• Transplantation services: means a process by which a kidney is excised from a live or cadaveric donor and is implanted in an end stage renal disease patient, and supportive care is furnished to the living donor and to the recipient following implantation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Vocational services: means services provided directly or through cooperating agencies to a client in accordance with his individualized plan and designed to improve or enhance skills and behaviors necessary for successful placement in a volunteer or work setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2120.33