§ 3618. Continuation of existing home health agencies. Any home health agency which, on March thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, possessed a valid certificate of approval issued under the provisions of article twenty-eight of this chapter shall be deemed a certified home health agency and such certificate of approval shall be deemed valid under the provisions of this article.

Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3618

  • Certified home health agency: means a home care services agency which possesses a valid certificate of approval issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, or a residential health care facility or hospital possessing a valid operating certificate issued under article twenty-eight of this chapter which is authorized under section thirty-six hundred ten of this article to provide a long term home health care program. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3602