Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 249L - Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Assessment Program

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
• Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Nonoperating revenue: means income from activities not relating directly to the day-to-day operations of a nursing facility such as gains on the disposal of a facility's assets, dividends, and interest from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Nursing facility: means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Other operating revenue: means income from nonpatient care services to patients and from sales to and activities for persons other than patients which may include but are not limited to such activities as providing personal laundry service for patients, providing meals to persons other than patients, gift shop sales, or vending machine commissions. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Patient day: means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1