2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-7702 — Terms, defined.

Section 71-7702
Terms, defined.

For purposes of the Health Care Facility-Provider Cooperation Act:

(1) Community planning shall mean a plan which identifies (a) health-care-related resources, facilities, and services within the community, (b) the health care needs of the community, (c) gaps in services, (d) duplication of services, and (e) ways to meet health care needs;

(2) Cooperative agreement shall mean an agreement among two or more health care facilities or other providers for the sharing, allocation, or referral of patients, personnel, instructional programs, equipment, support services and facilities, or medical, diagnostic, or laboratory facilities or procedures or other services traditionally offered or purchased by health care facilities or other providers;

(3) Department shall mean the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure;

(4) Health care facility shall mean:

(a) Any facility required to be licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act or, if in another state, licensed in such state; and

(b) Any parent of a health care facility, health care facility subsidiary, or health care facility affiliate that provides medical or medically related diagnostic and laboratory services or engages in ancillary activities supporting those services; and

(5) Provider shall mean any person licensed to provide health care services under Chapter 71 and engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, physical therapy, or nursing.

Source:

Laws 1994, LB 1223, § 112

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 786

Laws 2000, LB 819, § 144

Cross References:

Health Care Facility Licensure Act,see section 71-401.

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska