RS 40:2115.32

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RS 40:2115.32

§2115.32. Definitions

For purposes of this Subpart, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)"Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.

(2)"Emergency medical services" means those medical services necessary to screen, evaluate, and stabilize an emergency medical condition of recent onset and severity, including severe pain, that would lead a prudent layperson, acting reasonably and possessing an average knowledge of health and medicine, to believe that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in placing the health of the individual in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily function, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.

(3)"Freestanding emergency department" means a healthcare facility that holds itself out to the public as providing emergency medical services and is not licensed as part of the main campus of a hospital or as an off-site campus of a hospital.

(4)"Healthcare facility" means a facility, including but not limited to a hospital, or an office where a healthcare provider furnishes care to patients for health needs or medical conditions.

(5)"Healthcare provider" means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state to provide healthcare or medical treatment in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.

(6)"Hospital" means an entity as defined in R.S. 40:2102.

(7)"Off-site campus" means all licensed premises where emergency, inpatient, or outpatient hospital services are provided and that are not a part of or adjoining to the main hospital building or grounds. For licensing purposes, an off-site campus shall be located within thirty-five miles of the main hospital campus.

(8)"Rural hospital" means an entity as defined in R.S. 40:1189.3 or, for purposes of this Subpart, a hospital that is in a parish with a population of greater than seventy thousand but less than ninety thousand as of the latest federal decennial census.

Acts 2019, No. 438, §1.