(1) Home health agency means a person or any legal entity which provides skilled nursing care or a minimum of one other therapeutic service as defined by the department on a full-time, part-time, or intermittent basis to persons in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the person’s home.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-417

  • 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
  • Department: means the Division of Public Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-410
  • Home health agency: means a person or any legal entity which provides skilled nursing care or a minimum of one other therapeutic service as defined by the department on a full-time, part-time, or intermittent basis to persons in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the person's home. See Nebraska Statutes 71-417
  • Home health agency does not: include a PACE center. See Nebraska Statutes 71-417
  • PACE center: means a facility from which a PACE provider offers services within the scope of a PACE program pursuant to a written agreement between the provider, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-424.01
  • 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

(2) Home health agency does not include a PACE center.

(3) Home health agency does not include a person or legal entity that engages only in social work practice as defined in section 38-2119.

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