Arizona Laws 36-439.04. Colocation; outpatient treatment centers; health care providers
A. The governing authority of a licensed collaborating outpatient treatment center or a collaborating exempt outpatient treatment center, by agreement, may share common areas and may share nontreatment personnel with one or more exempt health care providers or one or more licensed counseling facilities pursuant to Section 36-439.02.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-439.04
- Collaborating outpatient treatment center: means a licensed outpatient treatment center or an exempt outpatient treatment center that has a written agreement with one or more outpatient treatment centers or exempt health care providers or licensed counseling facilities that requires the collaborating outpatient treatment center to be liable and responsible pursuant to written policies for all common areas that one or more colocators use. See Arizona Laws 36-439
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Exempt health care provider: means a health care provider who is licensed pursuant to title 32, who holds an active license and whose private office or clinic is exempt from licensure pursuant to section 36-402, subsection A, paragraph 3. See Arizona Laws 36-439
- Exempt outpatient treatment center: means a facility with the same direct owner or indirect owner as a hospital that is licensed pursuant to this chapter, that does not have inpatient beds, that provides physical health services or behavioral health services for the diagnosis and treatment of patients and that is exempt from licensure pursuant to section 36-402, subsection A, paragraph 12. See Arizona Laws 36-439
- Facilities: means buildings that are used by a health care institution for providing any of the types of services as defined in this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Governing authority: means the individual, agency, partners, group or corporation, whether appointed, elected or otherwise designated, in which the ultimate responsibility and authority for the conduct of the health care institution are vested. See Arizona Laws 36-401
- Nontreatment personnel: means employees, agents, students, interns or independent contractors who provide services to an outpatient treatment center colocator that do not entail medical, nursing or behavioral health assessment or treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-439
- Treatment areas: means portions of licensed outpatient treatment center premises that are used for the provision of health care assessment and treatment of patients. See Arizona Laws 36-439
B. Treatment areas that are licensed under an outpatient treatment center may also be used by an exempt health care provider or an exempt outpatient treatment center if the provider’s treatment areas and hours of operation are clearly identified by signage to the public and notice to the department.
C. Notwithstanding subsections A and B of this section, a licensed or exempt outpatient treatment center may contract with or employ an exempt health care provider to provide health care services to the licensed or exempt outpatient treatment center’s patients.