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Ambulatory care facility: means
a health care facility or a distinct part of a health care facility which
provides preventative, diagnostic, and treatment services to persons who
come to the facility to receive services and depart from the facility on
the same day. (8:43A-1.3)
Home
Health Agency: means a facility which is licensed by the New Jersey
State Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventative,
rehabilitative, and therapeutic services to patients in the patient's
home or place of residence. All home health agencies shall provide nursing,
homemaker-home health aide, and physical therapy services. (8:42-1.2)
Home Health
Agency Search by County will only yield facilities that are physically
located in a specific county. In order to locate all counties served by
specific home health agencies, click on the facility listing.
Hospice: means a program which is licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health
and Senior Services to provide palliative services to terminally ill patients
in the patients home or place of residence, including medical, nursing,
social work, volunteer and counseling services. (8:42C-1.2)
Hospital: means an institution, whether operated for profit or not, whether maintained,
supervised or controlled by an agency of the Government of the State or
any county or municipality or not, which maintains and operates facilities
for the diagnosis, treatment or care of two or more non-related individuals
suffering from illness, injury or deformity and where emergency, out-patient,
surgical, obstetrical, convalescent or other medical and nursing care
is rendered for periods exceeding 24 hours. (8:43G-1.2)
Hospitals
shall be further classified as: (8:43G-1.3)
- General
Acute Care hospital,
which shall include any hospital which maintains and operates organized
facilities and services for the diagnosis, treatment or care of persons
suffering from acute illness, injury or deformity and in which all diagnosis,
treatment and care are administered by or performed under the direction
of persons licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State
of New Jersey;
- Special
hospital,
which shall include any hospital which assures provision of comprehensive
specialized diagnosis, care, treatment and rehabilitation where applicable
on an in-patient basis for one or more specific categories of patients;
and
- Psychiatric
hospital,
which shall include any hospital which assures provision of comprehensive
specialized diagnosis, care, treatment and rehabilitation where applicable
on an in-patient basis for patients with primary psychiatric diagnoses.
Hospital-based
off-site ambulatory care service facility: means an ambulatory care
service facility which has met the criteria as set forth in N.J.A.C. 8:43G-2.11
( c) to be classified as same and which has applied for and received a
license authorizing the facility to operate as a hospital-based off-site
ambulatory care service facility. (8:43G-1.2)
Maternal
and Child Health Consortium (MCHC): means a voluntarily formed non-profit
organization, incorporated under Section 501( c) (3) of the United States
Internal Revenue Code, consisting of all inpatient, ambulatory perinatal
and pediatric care providers and related community organizations in a
maternal and child health service region, licensed as a central service
facility by the Department of Health and Senior Services. (8:35A-1.2
Rehabilitation Hospital: means a facility licensed by the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services to provide comprehensive rehabilitation
services to patients for the alleviation or amelioration of the disabling
effects of illness. Comprehensive rehabilitation services are characterized
by the coordinated delivery of multidisciplinary care intended to achieve
the goal of maximizing the self-sufficiency of the patient. A rehabilitation
hospital is a facility licensed to provide only comprehensive rehabilitation
services or is a distinct unit providing only comprehensive rehabilitation
services located in a licensed health care facility. (8:43H-1.3)
Drug abuse treatment facility [hospital based and ambulatory primary care facilities with additional services]: Please note: the Department of Human Services, Division of Addiction Services, licenses all residential and most ambulatory substance abuse treatment facilities.
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