2010 New York Code
PBH - Public Health
Article 40 - (4000 - 4015) HOSPICE
4002 - Definitions.

§  4002. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and
  phrases shall have the following meanings:
    1. "Hospice" means a coordinated program of home and  in-patient  care
  which  treats the terminally ill patient and family as a unit, employing
  an interdisciplinary team acting under the direction  of  an  autonomous
  hospice  administration.  The program provides palliative and supportive
  care to meet the special needs arising out of  physical,  psychological,
  spiritual, social and economic stresses which are experienced during the
  final stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement.
    2.  "Hospice  demonstration program participant" means a hospice which
  was  approved  to  participate  in  the  hospice  demonstration  program
  established  pursuant  to  chapter seven hundred eighteen of the laws of
  nineteen hundred seventy-eight and is operating on the thirtieth day  of
  June, nineteen hundred eighty-three.
    2-a.  "Home"  shall  include  a  hospice  patient's  home or a hospice
  residence.
    2-b. "Hospice residence"  means  a  hospice  operated  home  which  is
  residential  in  character  and  physical structure and operated for the
  purpose of providing more than two hospice patients but  not  more  than
  eight  hospice  patients  with  hospice  care,  which may include dually
  certified hospice in-patient beds.
    3. "Construction" means construction as defined in section  thirty-six
  hundred two of this chapter.
    * 4.  "Public  health council" and "state hospital review and planning
  council" shall mean the public health and health planning council.
    * NB Effective December 1, 2010