34-6-201 - Part definitions.
34-6-201. Part definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Durable power of attorney for health care means a durable power of attorney to the extent that it authorizes an attorney in fact to make health care decisions for the principal;
(2) Health care means any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or treat an individual's physical or mental condition, and includes medical care as defined in § 32-11-103(5);
(3) Health care decision means consent, refusal of consent or withdrawal of consent to health care;
(4) Health care institution means a health care institution as defined in § 68-11-1602;
(5) Health care provider means a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or permitted by the laws of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession; and
(6) Person includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, the state, a city, county, city and county, or other public entity or governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal entity.
[Acts 1990, ch. 831, § 2.]