Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 10 - Public Health Administration › Subchapter 10 - Registries › Part 7 - Health Care Quality Program (216-RICR-10-10-7) › Section 216-RICR-10-10-7.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in these rules and
				  regulations, the following terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Clinical outcomes" means information
				  about the results of patient care and treatment.
2. "Core-staffing plan", as used herein,
				  shall mean the projected complement of non- managerial nursing staff that shall
				  be assigned on each shift to a specified patient care unit.
3. "Customer satisfaction" means the degree
				  to which the facility or provider meets or exceeds the
				  patient's/resident's/client's/family's or member's expectations as perceived by
				  the patient/resident/client/family or member by focusing on those aspects of
				  care that the patient/resident/client/family or member can judge.
4. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Health.
5. "Director"
				  means the Director of the Department of Health or his or her duly authorized
				  agent.
6. "Health care facility"
				  shall have the same meaning as contained in R.I. Gen. Laws 23-17, as amended,
				  and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
7. "Home care provider" means any person that
				  provides, arranges to provide, offers to provide, or in any other way provides
				  for the delivery of any direct health care services in the home requiring
				  supervision by a registered nurse (RN), but excludes the delivery of direct
				  nursing care by a registered (RN) or licensed practical (LPN) nurse on an
				  on-going basis; and includes services rendered by a licensed health care
				  professional, including but not limited to: a speech pathologist/audiologist,
				  physical, occupational, or respiratory therapist. Also as used herein, "home
				  care provider" includes homemaker services as defined in the Rules and
				  Regulations for the Licensing of Home Nursing Care Providers and Home Care
				  Providers.
8. "Home nursing care
				  provider" means any person that provides, arranges to provide, offers to
				  provide, or in any other way provides for the delivery of direct nursing
				  services in the home by a registered (RN) or practical (LPN) nurse, and
				  provided such services are rendered in accordance with the Rules and
				  Regulations for the Licensing of Home Nursing Care Providers and Home Care
				  Providers.
9. "Hospital" means a
				  health care facility with a governing body, an organized medical staff and a
				  nursing service, providing equipment and services primarily for inpatient care
				  to persons who require definitive diagnosis and treatment for injury, illness
				  or other disabilities or pregnancy. A hospital shall provide psychiatric and/or
				  medical and/or surgical care and at least the following services: dietetic,
				  infection control, medical records, laboratory, pharmaceutical and radiology,
				  except that a psychiatric facility need not provide radiology
				  services.
10. "Non-managerial
				  nursing staff" shall mean registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and/or
				  certified nursing assistants who perform non-managerial direct patient care
				  functions for more than fifty percent (50%) of their scheduled hours on a given
				  patient care unit.
11. "Nursing
				  facility" means a place, however named, or an identifiable unit or distinct
				  part thereof that provides twenty-four (24) hour in-resident nursing,
				  therapeutic, restorative or preventive and supportive nursing care services for
				  two (2) or more residents unrelated by blood or marriage whose condition
				  requires continuous nursing care and supervision.
12. "Patient care unit" shall mean a
				  designated area for assigning patients and staff for which discrete budget and
				  staffing plans exist.
13.
				  "Performance measure" means a quantitative tool that provides an indication of
				  an organization's performance in relation to a specified process or
				  outcome.
14. "Person" means any
				  individual, trust or estate, partnership, corporation (including associations,
				  joint stock companies) state or political subdivision or instrumentality of a
				  state.
15. "Quality of care" means
				  the result or outcome of health care efforts and is also measured using the
				  framework of structure and process.
16. "Reporting program" means an objective
				  feedback mechanism regarding individual or facility performance that can be
				  used internally to support performance improvement activities and externally to
				  demonstrate accountability to the public and other purchasers, payers, and
				  stakeholders.
17. "R.I. Gen. Laws"
				  means the General Laws of Rhode Island, as amended.
18. "Risk-adjusted" means the use of
				  statistically valid techniques to account for patient variables which may
				  include, but need not to be limited to, age, chronic disease history, and
				  physiologic data.