Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 410 - REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSURE OF HOSPITALS IN VIRGINIA › Part I - Definitions and General Information and Procedures › Article 1 - Definitions › Section 12VAC5-410-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms
						shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
"Board" means the State Board of Health.
"Chief executive officer" means a job descriptive term
						used to identify the individual appointed by the governing body to act in its
						behalf in the overall management of the hospital. Job titles may include
						administrator, superintendent, director, executive director, president,
						vice-president, and executive vice-president.
"Commissioner" means the State Health
						Commissioner.
"Consultant" means one who provides services or advice
						upon request.
"Department" means an organized section of the hospital.
"Designated support person" means a person who is
						knowledgeable about the needs of a person with a disability and who is
						designated, orally or in writing, by the individual with a disability, the
						individual's guardian, or the individual's care provider to provide support and
						assistance, including physical assistance, emotional support, assistance with
						communication or decision-making, or any other assistance necessary as a result
						of the person's disability, to the person with a disability at any time during
						which health care services are provided.
"Direction" means authoritative policy or procedural
						guidance for the accomplishment of a function or activity.
"Facilities" means building(s), equipment, and supplies
						necessary for implementation of services by personnel.
"Full-time" means a 37-1/2 to 40 hour work week.
"General hospital" means institutions as defined by
						§
											32.1-123 of the Code
						of Virginia with an organized medical staff; with permanent facilities that
						include inpatient beds; and with medical services, including physician
						services, dentist services and continuous nursing services, to provide
						diagnosis and treatment for patients who have a variety of medical and dental
						conditions that may require various types of care, such as medical, surgical,
						and maternity.
"Home health care department/service/program" means a
						formally structured organizational unit of the hospital that is designed to
						provide health services to patients in their place of residence and meets Part
						II (12VAC5-381-150
						et seq.) of the regulations adopted by the board for the licensure of home care
						organizations in Virginia.
"Medical" means pertaining to or dealing with the healing
						art and the science of medicine.
"Nursing care unit" means an organized jurisdiction of
						nursing service in which nursing services are provided on a continuous basis.
"Nursing home" means an institution or any identifiable
						component of any institution as defined by §
											32.1-123 of the Code
						of Virginia with permanent facilities that include inpatient beds and whose
						primary function is the provision, on a continuing basis, of nursing and health
						related services for the treatment of patients who may require various types of
						long term care, such as skilled care and intermediate care.
"Nursing services" means patient care services pertaining
						to the curative, palliative, restorative, or preventive aspects of nursing that
						are prepared or supervised by a registered nurse.
"Office of Licensure and Certification" or "OLC" means
						the Office of Licensure and Certification of the Virginia Department of Health.
"Organized" means administratively and functionally
						structured.
"Organized medical staff" means a formal organization of
						physicians and dentists with the delegated responsibility and authority to
						maintain proper standards of medical care and to plan for continued betterment
						of that care.
"Outpatient hospital" means institutions as defined by
						§
											32.1-123 of the Code
						of Virginia that primarily provide facilities for the performance of surgical
						procedures on outpatients. Such patients may require treatment in a medical
						environment exceeding the normal capability found in a physician's office, but
						do not require inpatient hospitalization.
"Ownership/person" means any individual, partnership,
						association, trust, corporation, municipality, county, governmental agency, or
						any other legal or commercial entity that owns or controls the physical
						facilities and/or manages or operates a hospital.
"Rural hospital" means any general hospital in a county
						classified by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as rural, any
						hospital designated as a critical access hospital, any general hospital that is
						eligible to receive funds under the federal Small Rural Hospital Improvement
						Grant Program, or any general hospital that notifies the commissioner of its
						desire to retain its rural status when that hospital is in a county
						reclassified by the OMB as a metropolitan statistical area as of June 6, 2003.
"Service" means a functional division of the hospital.
						Also used to indicate the delivery of care.
"Special hospital" means institutions as defined by
						§
											32.1-123 of the Code
						of Virginia that provide care for a specialized group of patients or limit
						admissions to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients who have specific
						conditions (e.g., tuberculosis, orthopedic, pediatric, maternity).
"Special care unit" means an appropriately equipped area
						of the hospital where there is a concentration of physicians, nurses, and
						others who have special skills and experience to provide optimal medical care
						for patients assigned to the unit.
"Staff privileges" means authority to render medical care
						in the granting institution within well-defined limits, based on the
						individual's professional license and the individual's experience, competence,
						ability, and judgment.
"Unit" means a functional division or facility of the
						hospital.
Statutory Authority: §§
													32.1-12
						  and
						  32.1-127 of the Code
						  of Virginia.