Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Ambulatory surgical facility: means a facility with the primary purpose of providing elective surgical care to a patient who is admitted to and discharged from the facility within the same day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Client: means a person who receives services from a home health agency, personal care agency, long-term care facility, general and specialty hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, hospice agency or end-stage renal disease unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Critical access hospital: means a hospital that must first be designated and approved by the State, as long as the State also has established an approved rural hospital flexibility program, and that meets the conditions in effect on March 1, 2004 for critical access hospital status under the federal Medicare program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Emergency: means a situation, physical condition or one or more practices, methods or operations which presents imminent danger of death or serious physical or mental harm to residents, including, but not limited to, imminent or actual abandonment of an occupied facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- End-stage renal disease unit: means a facility that provides specialized services to assist individuals who have been diagnosed as having an irreversible and permanent kidney disease that requires dialysis or kidney transplantation to maintain life. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Facility: means any assisted living facility, residential care facility or assisted housing facility subject to licensure pursuant to chapters 1663 and 1664, any nursing facility or unit subject to licensure pursuant to chapter 405 and any private psychiatric hospital subject to licensure pursuant to chapter 405. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- General hospital: means an acute health care facility with permanent inpatient beds planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer on a continuous basis facilities and services for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, injury and deformity that has a governing board and an organized medical staff, offering a continuous 24-hour professional nursing care plan to provide continuous 24-hour emergency treatment and that includes the following services or organizational units:
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