Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7937

  • Critical access hospital: means a hospital that must first be designated and approved by the State, as long as the State also has established an approved rural hospital flexibility program, and that meets the conditions in effect on March 1, 2004 for critical access hospital status under the federal Medicare program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
  • End-stage renal disease unit: means a facility that provides specialized services to assist individuals who have been diagnosed as having an irreversible and permanent kidney disease that requires dialysis or kidney transplantation to maintain life. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • Facility: means any assisted living facility, residential care facility or assisted housing facility subject to licensure pursuant to chapters 1663 and 1664, any nursing facility or unit subject to licensure pursuant to chapter 405 and any private psychiatric hospital subject to licensure pursuant to chapter 405. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • General hospital: means an acute health care facility with permanent inpatient beds planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer on a continuous basis facilities and services for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, injury and deformity that has a governing board and an organized medical staff, offering a continuous 24-hour professional nursing care plan to provide continuous 24-hour emergency treatment and that includes the following services or organizational units:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • home health care provider: includes any business entity or subdivision of a business entity, whether public or private, proprietary or nonprofit, that is engaged in providing speech pathology services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • Hospice agency: means a public agency or private organization that is primarily engaged in providing specified services to terminally ill individuals and their families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
  • Personal care agency: means an organization or other entity licensed under section 1717. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
    • An order appointing a receiver under section 7933 has the effect of a license for the duration of the receivership. The receiver is responsible to the court for the conduct of the long-term care facility, home health care provider, personal care agency, general hospital, specialty hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical center, hospice agency or end-stage renal disease unit during the receivership, and a violation of regulations governing the conduct of the long-term care facility, home health care provider, personal care agency, general hospital, specialty hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical center, hospice agency or end-stage renal disease unit, if not promptly corrected, must be reported by the department to the court. [PL 2023, c. 309, §40 (AMD).]
    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 1983, c. 454 (NEW). PL 1995, c. 620, §8 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 384, §16 (AMD). PL 2023, c. 309, §40 (AMD).
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