Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 40 > Chapter 11 > Part VII - Hospices

• 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.
• Autonomous: refers to a separate and distinct operational entity which functions under its own administration and bylaws, either within or independently of a parent organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• 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.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• Hospice: means an autonomous, centrally administered, medically directed program providing a continuum of home, outpatient, and homelike inpatient care for the terminally ill patient and his family. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• Interdisciplinary team: includes representatives from all of the core services as evidenced by documentation, planning, and team meetings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• 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.
• Terminally ill: refers to a medical prognosis of limited expected survival, of approximately six months or less at the time of referral to a hospice, of an individual who is experiencing an illness for which therapeutic strategies directed toward cure and control of the disease alone are no longer appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.