3701-83-01 General definitions.

 

3701-83-01                  General definitions.

 

 

As used in this chapter:

 

(A)    "Accreditation inspection report" means the written survey findings concerning a health care facility prepared by an entity that the director has determined as having standards and a process for assessing compliance which equal or exceed the requirements of section 3702.30 of the Revised Code and the applicable requirements of Chapter 3701-83 of the Revised Code.

 

(B)   "Administrator" means the person responsible for the overall daily management of the health care facility.

 

(C)     "Advanced directives" means a written document executed in accordance with section 2133.02 or section 1337.12 of the Revised Code.

 

(D)    "Current procedural terminology" or "CPT" means the comprehensive listing of medical terms and codes published by the American medical association for the uniform designation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in surgery, medicine and the specialties.

 

(E)    "Dentist" means a person licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code to practice dentistry.

 

(F)   "Department" means the Ohio department of health.

 

(G)     "Dialysis station" or "station" means the equipment used to provide chronic maintenance dialysis for a single patient at a given time, including equipment used for self-dialysis and isolation stations but not including equipment used exclusively to train patients in self-dialysis.

 

(H)   "Director" means the director of health or any official or employee of the department designated by the director of health.

 

(I)  "Health care facility" or "HCF" means any of the following:

 

(1)      An  ambulatory  surgical  facility  as  defined  in  rule  3701-83-15  of  the Administrative Code;

 

 

 

(2)       A   freestanding   dialysis   center   as   defined   in   rule   3701-83-23   of   the Administrative Code;

(3)   A freestanding inpatient rehabilitation facility as defined in rule 3701-83-25 of the Administrative Code;

(4)       A   freestanding   birthing   center   as   defined   in   rule   3701-83-33   of   the Administrative Code;

(5)    A freestanding radiation therapy center as defined in rule 3701-83-43 of the Administrative Code; and

(6)      A  freestanding  or  mobile  diagnostic  imaging  center  as  defined  in  rule 3701-83-51 of the Administrative Code.

(J)   "Hospital" means an institution required to be registered under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code.

(K)   "Licensed practical nurse" or "LPN" means a person licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code to practice nursing as a licensed practical nurse.

(L)     "Medical director" means the physician who is responsible for managing and directing the provision of medical services at the health care facility unless otherwise indicated in Chapter 3701-83 of the Administrative Code.

(M) "Metropolitan statistical area" or "MSA" means an area of the state designated a metropolitan statistical area or primary metropolitan statistical area in United States office of management and budget bulletin no. 93-17, June 30, 1993, and its attachments.

(N)(M) "Nurse" means either a licensed practical nurse or a registered nurse.

(O)(N) "Owner" means any person who holds a legal, equitable, or possessory interest of any kind in a health care facility, including, without limitation, a trust, vendor, vendee, lessor, or lessee. Owner does not include a person who holds indicia of ownership primarily to protect the person's security interest in the health care facility.

(P)(O) "Patient" means any individual who receives services in a health care facility.

(Q)(P) "Patient representative" means either a person acting on behalf of a patient with

the consent of the patient or the patient's legal guardian.

(R)(Q) "Personnel" means all individuals working in the health care facility.

(S)(R) "Physician" means a person who is licensed under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery, or osteopathic medicine and surgery.

(T)(S) "Podiatrist" means a person licensed to practice podiatry under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code.

(U)(T) "Registered nurse" or "RN" means a person who is licensed under section 4723. of the Revised Code to practice nursing as a registered nurse.

(V)(U) "Staff member" or "staff" means the administrator and individuals providing direct care to patients on a full-time, part-time, temporary, contract or voluntary basis. "Staff member" does not include a volunteer who provides direct care only to a member of his or her family.

Effective:                                9/5/2002

R.C. 119.032 review dates:    2/28/2002 and 02/28/2006

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

08/26/2002 03:50 PM

Date

Promulgated Under:   119.03

Statutory Authority:   3702.13, 3702.30

Rule Amplifies:           3702.12, 3702.13, 3702.30

Prior Effective Dates: 1/13/96