Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 32.1 > Chapter 4 > Article 4.1 - . Health Planning and Resources Development.

• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Board: means the State Board of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Commissioner: means the State Health Commissioner. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Consumer: means a person who is not a provider of health care services. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Virginia Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Health planning region: means a contiguous geographical area of the Commonwealth with a population base of at least 500,000 persons, which is characterized by the availability of multiple levels of medical care services, reasonable travel time for tertiary care, and congruence with planning districts. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Medical care facility: means any institution, place, building, or agency, whether or not licensed or required to be licensed by the Board or the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, whether operated for profit or nonprofit, and whether privately owned or privately operated or owned or operated by a local governmental unit, (i) by or in which health services are furnished, conducted, operated, or offered for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical condition, whether medical or surgical, of two or more nonrelated persons who are injured or physically sick or have mental illness, or for the care of two or more nonrelated persons requiring or receiving medical, surgical, nursing, acute, chronic, convalescent, or long-term care services, or services for individuals with disabilities, or (ii) which is the recipient of reimbursements from third-party health insurance programs or prepaid medical service plans. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, or association or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• Provider: means a licensed or certified health care practitioner, a licensed health care facility or service administrator, or an individual who has a personal interest in a health care facility or service as defined in the Virginia Conflict of Interests Act (§ Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Regional health planning agency: means the regional agency, including the regional health planning board, its staff and any component thereof, designated by the Board to perform the health planning activities set forth in this chapter within a health planning region. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Regional health planning board: means the governing board of the regional health planning agency as described in § Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Health and Human Resources of the Commonwealth of Virginia. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• State Board: means the State Board of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
• State Health Plan: means the document so designated by the Board, which may include analysis of priority health issues, policies, needs, methodologies for assessing statewide health care needs, and such other matters as the Board shall deem appropriate. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tertiary care: means health care delivered by facilities that provide specialty acute care including, but not limited to, trauma care, neonatal intensive care and cardiac services. See Virginia Code 32.1-122.01
• United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255