(1) Children’s day health service means a person or any legal entity which provides specialized care and treatment, including an array of social, medical, rehabilitation, or other support services for a period of less than twenty-four consecutive hours in a community-based group program to twenty or more persons under twenty-one years of age who require such services due to medical dependence, birth trauma, congenital anomalies, developmental disorders, or functional impairment.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-408.01

  • Care: means the exercise of concern or responsibility for the comfort, welfare, and habilitation of persons, including a minimum amount of supervision and assistance with or the provision of personal care, activities of daily living, health maintenance activities, or other supportive services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-407
  • Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Treatment: means a therapy, modality, product, device, or other intervention used to maintain well being or to diagnose, assess, alleviate, or prevent a disability, injury, illness, disease, or other similar condition. See Nebraska Statutes 71-431

(2) Children’s day health service does not include services provided under the Developmental Disabilities Services Act.