§ 4002 — Definitions

§ 4002. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and\nphrases shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Hospice" means a coordinated program of home and in-patient care\nwhich treats the terminally ill patient and family as a unit, employing\nan interdisciplinary team acting under the direction of an autonomous\nhospice administration. The program provides palliative and supportive\ncare to meet the special needs arising out of physical, psychological,\nspiritual, social and economic stresses which are experienced during the\nfinal stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement.\n 2. "Hospice demonstration program participant" means a hospice which\nwas approved to participate in the hospice demonstration program\nestablished pursuant to chapter seven hundred eighteen of the laws of\nnineteen hundred seventy-eight and is operating on the thirtieth day of\nJune, nineteen hundred eighty-three.\n 2-a. "Home" shall include a hospice patient's home or a hospice\nresidence.\n 2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is\nresidential in character and physical structure and operated for the\npurpose of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than\nsixteen hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually\ncertified hospice in-patient beds up to one hundred percent of the\nhospice residence's patient capacity.\n 3. "Construction" means construction as defined in section thirty-six\nhundred two of this chapter.\n 4. "Public health council" and "state hospital review and planning\ncouncil" shall mean the public health and health planning council.\n 5. "Terminally ill" means an individual has a medical prognosis that\nthe individual's life expectancy is approximately one year or less if\nthe illness runs its normal course.\n