Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 40 > Chapter 11 > Part II-C - End Stage Renal Disease Facilities

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2117.1
• 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
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• 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