Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 40 - Hospice

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Construction: means construction as defined in section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Home: shall include a hospice patient's home or a hospice residence. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Hospice: means a coordinated program of home and in-patient care which treats the terminally ill patient and family as a unit, employing an interdisciplinary team acting under the direction of an autonomous hospice administration. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Hospice demonstration program participant: means a hospice which was approved to participate in the hospice demonstration program established pursuant to chapter seven hundred eighteen of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-eight and is operating on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred eighty-three. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Hospice residence: means a hospice operated home which is residential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually certified hospice in-patient beds up to one hundred percent of the hospice residence's patient capacity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• state hospital review and planning council: shall mean the public health and health planning council. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Terminally ill: means an individual has a medical prognosis that the individual's life expectancy is approximately one year or less if the illness runs its normal course. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4002
• Testify: Answer questions in court.