Terms Used In Ohio Code 3712.11

• Hospice care program: means a coordinated program of home, outpatient, and inpatient care and services that is operated by a person or public agency and that provides the following care and services to hospice patients, including services as indicated below to hospice patients' families, through a medically directed interdisciplinary team, under interdisciplinary plans of care established pursuant to section 3712. See Ohio Code 3712.01
• Palliative care: means specialized care for a patient of any age who has been diagnosed with a serious or life-threatening illness that is provided at any stage of the illness by an interdisciplinary team working in consultation with other health care professionals, including those who may be seeking to cure the illness, and that aims to do all of the following:

  (1) Relieve the symptoms, stress, and suffering resulting from the illness;

  (2) Improve the quality of life of the patient and the patient's family;

  (3) Address the patient's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs;

  (4) Facilitate patient autonomy, access to information, and medical decision making. See Ohio Code 3712.01

• Pediatric respite care program: means a program operated by a person or public agency that provides inpatient respite care and related services, including all of the following services, only to pediatric respite care patients and, as indicated below, pediatric respite care patients' families, in order to meet the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and other special needs that are experienced during or leading up to the final stages of illness, dying, and bereavement:

  (1) Short-term inpatient care, including both palliative and respite care and procedures;

  (2) Nursing care by or under the supervision of a registered nurse;

  (3) Physician's services;

  (4) Medical social services by a social worker under the direction of a physician;

  (5) Medical supplies, including drugs and biologicals, and the use of medical appliances;

  (6) Counseling for pediatric respite care patients and pediatric respite care patients' families;

  (7) Bereavement services for respite care patients' families. See Ohio Code 3712.01