Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 6 > Chapter 1666-A – Appointment of Receivers
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- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Ambulatory surgical facility: means a facility with the primary purpose of providing elective surgical care to a patient who is admitted to and discharged from the facility within the same day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Client: means a person who receives services from a home health agency, personal care agency, long-term care facility, general and specialty hospital, critical access hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, hospice agency or end-stage renal disease unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Emergency: means a situation, physical condition or one or more practices, methods or operations which presents imminent danger of death or serious physical or mental harm to residents, including, but not limited to, imminent or actual abandonment of an occupied facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932
- 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
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- 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. 7932Habitual violation: means a violation of state or federal law which, due to its repetition, presents a reasonable likelihood of serious physical or mental harm to residents. 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 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Licensee: means any person or any other legal entity, other than a receiver appointed under section 7933, who is licensed or required to be licensed to operate a facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Owner: means the holder of the title to the real estate in which the facility is maintained. 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 Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Resident: means any person who lives in and receives services or care in a long-term care facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932 Substantial violation: means a violation of state or federal law that presents a reasonable likelihood of serious physical or mental harm to residents or clients. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932 Transfer trauma: means the combination of medical and psychological reactions to abrupt physical transfer that may increase the risk of grave illness or death. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7932 Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.