Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 20 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE (§§ 20-2-101 — 20-86-113) › Subtitle 2 - HEALTH AND SAFETY (§§ 20-6-101 — 20-38-113) › Chapter 8 - STATE HEALTH AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS (§§ 20-8-101 — 20-8-1104) › Subchapter 1 - HEALTH SERVICES PERMIT AGENCY (§§ 20-8-101 — 20-8-114) › Section 20-8-101 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1)
"Category of services" or "health services" means home healthcare services as defined by §
20-10-801
;
(2)
"Conversion of services" means an alteration of the category of services offered by a health facility;
(3)
(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
(4)
"Transitional rehabilitation" means rehabilitation that typically results in discharge within twenty-four (24) months after the date of admission.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 389,§ 9, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 389,§ 8, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 389,§ 7, eff. 7/24/2019.
Acts 1987, No. 593, § 1; 1987 (1st Ex. Sess.), No. 40, §§ 1, 2; 1989, No. 422, §§ 1, 2, 7; 1993, No. 472, § 1; 1997, No. 1025, § 1; 2001, No. 1583, § 2; 2001, No. 1800, § 6.