Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 594 - DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PAYBACK FUNDS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 594.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Illinois Family Practice Residency Act [110
				  ILCS 935 ].
"Advanced practice nurse" means a nurse licensed under Title
				  15 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act [225 ILCS 65 ].
"Authority" means the Illinois Development Finance
				  Authority.
"Community Based Organization" means a locally organized and
				  recognized group of individuals whose goals include efforts to maintain or
				  increase the availability or accessibility of necessary health care for the
				  citizens of the community.
"Community health center" means community/migrant health
				  centers or health care for the homeless projects supported under Section 254b,
				  254c or 256 of the federal Public Health Service Act (
				  42 USC 254
				  b, 254c and 256 ) or federally qualified health center look-alikes, as
				  designated by the U.S. Public Health Service.
"Center" means the Center for Rural Health of the Illinois
				  Department of Public Health.
"Dentist" means a person licensed to practice dentistry under
				  the Illinois Dental Practice Act [225 ILCS 25 ].
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.
"Downstate" means those Illinois counties other than Cook,
				  Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Will and Kane.
"Family practice residency program" means a training program
				  meeting the requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
				  Education of the American Medical Association or the Committee on Postdoctoral
				  Training of the American Osteopathic Association.
"Full time practice" means maintaining office hours for
				  patient care that equal or exceed the mean number of office hours per week
				  reported by physicians, by specialty, and published in the American Medical
				  Association's "Socioeconomic Characteristics of Medical Practice, 1992."
				  Physician assistants and advanced practice nurses will meet the same minimum
				  time requirements as their supervising or collaborating physician.
"Fund" means the Community Health Center Care Fund.
"Local health department" means a county, multi-county,
				  municipal or district public health agency recognized by the Department.
"Medically underserved population" means individuals who
				  reside in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designated health
				  professional shortage area or medically underserved area; or who are designated
				  a medically underserved population by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
				  Services; or who reside in an area designated by the Department as
				  underserved.
"Physician assistant" means an individual licensed under the
				  Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 95 ].
"Primary care" means health care that encompasses prevention
				  services, basic diagnostic and treatment services, and support services such as
				  laboratory, radiologic, transportation, and pharmacy. Primary care is
				  comprehensive in nature and not organ or problem specific; is oriented toward
				  the longitudinal care of the patient; and includes responsibility for
				  coordination of other health and social services as they relate to the
				  patients' needs.
"Primary care physician" means a person licensed to practice
				  medicine in all its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS
				  60 ] with a specialty in family practice, general internal medicine,
				  obstetrics/gynecology, general pediatrics, or combined internal
				  medicine/pediatrics and as defined by recognized standards for professional
				  medical practices.
"Psychiatrist" means a physician licensed to practice
				  medicine in all its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS
				  60] who has successfully completed an accredited residency program in
				  psychiatry.
"Rural" means any geographic area not located in a U.S.
				  Bureau of the Census Metropolitan Statistical Area or a county located within a
				  Metropolitan Statistical Area but having a population of 60,000 or
				  less.