Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 048 - Health, Department of › Sub-Agency 0026 - Land Commissioners, Board of › Chapter 1 - HEALTH CARE FACILITIES LICENSURE FEES › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Adult Day Care Facility" means any
				facility not otherwise certified by the Department of Health, engaged in the
				business of providing activities of daily living support and supervision
				services programming based on a SOCIAL MODEL, to four (4) or more persons
				twenty-one (21) years of age or older with physical or mental
				disabilities.
(b) "Accrediting
				Agency" means an inspecting body nationally recognized and approved by federal
				regulations and having facility standards that meet or exceed the state
				standards for licensure;
(c) "Acute
				Care" means short term inpatient care provided in a hospital;
(d) "Ambulatory Surgical Center" means a
				facility which provides surgical treatment to patients not requiring
				hospitalization and is not part of a hospital or office of private physicians,
				dentists or podiatrists;
(e)
				"Assisted Living Facility" means a dwelling operated by any person, firm or
				corporation engaged in providing limited nursing care, personal care and
				boarding home care but not habilitative care, for persons not related to the
				owner of the facility;
(f) "Bed
				Capacity" means the number of beds the facility is requesting a license
				for;
(g) "Birthing Center" means a
				facility which operates for the primary purpose of performing deliveries and is
				not part of a hospital;
(h)
				"Boarding Home" means a dwelling or rooming house operated by any person, firm,
				or corporation engaged in the business of operating a home for the purpose of
				letting rooms for rent and providing meals and personal daily living care, but
				not habilitative or nursing care, for persons not related to the owner.
				Boarding home does not include a lodging facility or an apartment in which only
				room and board is provided;
(i)
				"Department" means the department of health;
(j) "Freestanding Diagnostic Testing Center"
				means a mobile or permanent facility which provides diagnostic testing but not
				treatment and is not part of the private offices of health care professionals
				operating within the scope of their licenses;
(k) "Freestanding Emergency Center" means a
				clinic built to provide emergency or routine treatment but does not include the
				private offices of health care professionals operating within the scope of
				their licenses;
(l) "Health Care
				Facility" means any ambulatory surgical center, assisted living facility,
				birthing center, boarding home, freestanding diagnostic testing center,
				freestanding emergency center, home health agency, hospice, hospital,
				intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, medical assistance
				facility, nursing care facility, rehabilitation facility or renal dialysis
				center;
(m) "Home Health Agency"
				means an agency primarily engaged in arranging and directly providing nursing
				or other health care services to persons at their residence;
(n) "Hospice" means a program of care for the
				terminally ill and their families given in a home or health facility which
				provides medical, palliative, psychological, spiritual and supportive care and
				treatment;
(o) "Hospital" means an
				institution or a unit in an institution providing one (1) or more of the
				following to patients by or under the supervision of an organized medical
				staff;
(i) Diagnostic and therapeutic
				services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled or sick
				persons;
(ii) Rehabilitation
				services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled or sick persons;
(iii) Acute care;
(iv) Psychiatric care;
(v) Swing beds.