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20-8-101. Definitions.
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20-8-101. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) [Repealed.]
(2) “Category of services” or “health services” means home healthcare services as defined by § 20-10-801;
(3) [Repealed.]
(4) “Conversion of services” means an alteration of the category of services offered by a health facility;
(5) [Repealed.]
(6)(A) “Health facility” means a long-term care facility as defined by § 20-10-101 or a home healthcare services agency as defined by § 20-10-801.
(B) “Health facility” shall not mean and nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to require a permit of approval for or to otherwise regulate in any manner the licensure of:
(i) A hospital as defined by and licensed pursuant to § 20-9-201, except when a hospital seeks to add long-term care beds or to convert acute beds to long-term care beds or to add home health services pursuant to a letter of intent filed with the Department of Health after February 15, 1993, or to expand home health services pursuant to a letter of intent filed with the department after February 15, 1993;
(ii) Offices of private physicians and surgeons;
(iii) Outpatient surgery or imaging centers;
(iv) Post-acute head injury retraining and residential care facilities or establishments operated by the United States Government or any agency thereof;
(v) Freestanding radiation therapy centers;
(vi) Expansion, not to exceed fifteen (15) beds, of the twenty-five-bed nonprofit intermediate care facility for individuals with developmental disabilities that provides transitional rehabilitation for pediatric patients;
(vii) Residences for four (4) or fewer individuals with developmental disabilities who receive support and services from nonprofit providers currently licensed by the Division of Developmental Disabilities Servic
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-8-101
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20-8-101. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) [Repealed.]
(2) “Category of services” or “health services” means home healthcare services as defined by § 20-10-801;
(3) [Repealed.]
(4) “Conversion of services” means an alteration of the category of services offered by a health facility;
(5) [Repealed.]
(6)(A) “Health facility” means a long-term care facility as defined by § 20-10-101 or a home healthcare services agency as defined by § 20-10-801.
(B) “Health facility” shall not mean and nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to require a permit of approval for or to otherwise regulate in any manner the licensure of:
(i) A hospital as defined by and licensed pursuant to § 20-9-201, except when a hospital seeks to add long-term care beds or to convert acute beds to long-term care beds or to add home health services pursuant to a letter of intent filed with the Department of Health after February 15, 1993, or to expand home health services pursuant to a letter of intent filed with the department after February 15, 1993;
(ii) Offices of private physicians and surgeons;
(iii) Outpatient surgery or imaging centers;
(iv) Post-acute head injury retraining and residential care facilities or establishments operated by the United States Government or any agency thereof;
(v) Freestanding radiation therapy centers;
(vi) Expansion, not to exceed fifteen (15) beds, of the twenty-five-bed nonprofit intermediate care facility for individuals with developmental disabilities that provides transitional rehabilitation for pediatric patients;
(vii) Residences for four (4) or fewer individuals with developmental disabilities who receive support and services from nonprofit providers currently licensed by the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services;
(viii) Any facility which is conducted by and for those who rely exclusively upon treatment by prayer for healing in accordance with the tenets or practices of any recognized religious denomination; or
(ix) Any bed or facility used to provide care to delinquent juveniles committed into the care of the Division of Youth Services.
(C) “Health facility” shall not include offices of private physicians and surgeons, outpatient surgery or imaging centers, establishments operated by the United States Government or any of its agencies, freestanding radiation therapy centers, or any facility which is conducted by and for those who rely exclusively upon treatment by prayer alone for healing in accordance with the tenets or practices of any recognized religious denomination; and
(7) “Transitional rehabilitation” means rehabilitation that typically results in discharge within twenty-four (24) months after the date of admission.
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20-10-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Administrative remedy” means temporary management, denial of payment for all new admissions, transfer of residents, termination or suspension of license, termination of provider agreement, directed plan of correction, directed in-service training, and remedies established by Arkansas law, including remedies provided in § 20-10-1408;
(2) “Administrator-in-training program” means a program for gaining supervised practical experience in long-term care administration;
(3) “Assisted living facility” means the same as in § 20-10-1703;
(4) “Clock hour” means a period of contact experience comprising the full sixty (60) minutes;
(5) “Department” means the Department of Human Services;
(6) [Repealed.]
(7) “Division” means the appropriate division as determined by the Secretary of the Department of Human Services;
(8) “Head injury” means a noncongenital injury to the brain or a neurological impairment caused by illness, accident, or nondegenerative etiology;
(9) “Head injury retraining and rehabilitation” means an individualized program of instruction designed to assist an individual suffering disability as a result of head injury to reduce the adverse effects of the disability and improve functioning in activities of daily living and work-related activities, but which does not include inpatient diagnostic care, and which may be offered in a residential or day program;
(10)(A) “Long-term care facility” means a nursing home, residential care facility, assisted living facility, post-acute head injury retraining and residential care facility, or any other facility which provides long-term medical or personal care.
(B) “Long-term care facility” does not include an adult day care program that:
(i) Provides
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-10-101
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20-10-801. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Agency” means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization, whether public or private, proprietary or nonprofit;
(2) “Class A license” means that the applicant is at the time of filing an application a Medicare-certified home health agency. If the applicant is not at the time of filing its application a certified home health agency, it shall be in the process of receiving its certification from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services;
(3) “Class B license” means that the application shall show proof of the services provided and the geographical territory in which those services have been provided as of July 20, 1987, and that the applicant shall have requested a survey for the purpose of confirming the services provided and territory covered;
(4) “Division” means the Division of Health Facilities Services;
(5) “Home healthcare services” means the providing or coordinating of acute, restorative, rehabilitative, maintenance, preventive, or health promotion services through professional nursing or by other therapeutic services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, home health aide, or personal services in a client's residence;
(6) “Home healthcare services agency” means an agency licensed to provide home healthcare services;
(7) “Place of business” means any office of a home health agency including subunits;
(8) “Residence” means a place where a person resides, including a home, nursing home, or convalescent home for the disabled or aged; and
(9) “Subunit” means an organization of an agency that provides home healthcare services and which serves patients in a geographic area different from that of the agency.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-10-801
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20-9-201. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Administrator” means the chief administrative officer in the Division of Health Facilities Services;
(2) “Alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment center” means a distinct unit within a hospital facility in which services are provided for the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of alcohol and drug abuse;
(3) “Federal act” means the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, Pub. L. No. 79-725;
(4)(A) “Hospital” means a public health center, a general, tuberculosis, mental, or chronic disease hospital, or a related facility such as a laboratory, outpatient department, nurses home or training facility, or a central service facility operated in connection with a hospital.
(B) “Hospital” does not include an establishment:
(i) Furnishing primarily domiciliary care; or
(ii) Licensed or certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services as an alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment center;
(5)(A) “Institution” means a place for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of two (2) or more persons not related to the proprietor, suffering from illness, injury, or deformity, or where obstetrical care or care of the aged, blind, or disabled is rendered over a period exceeding twenty-four (24) hours.
(B) “Institution” also includes an outpatient surgery center, outpatient psychiatric center, and infirmary.
(C) “Institution” does not include an establishment:
(i) Operated by the United States Government or by any of its agencies; or
(ii) Licensed or certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services as an alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment center;
(6) “Medical facility” means a dia
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-9-201
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-9-201. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.