32.1-162.7 - Definitions.
§ 32.1-162.7. Definitions.
As used in this article:
"Health care professional" means any professional who is licensed,certified or registered to practice by a board within the Department ofHealth Professions under Title 54.1 or is licensed, certified or registeredby a nationally recognized professional organization specified in Boardregulations.
"Home care organization" means a public or private organization, whetheroperated for profit or not for profit, that provides, at the residence of apatient or individual in the Commonwealth of Virginia, one or more of thefollowing services:
1. Home health services, including services provided by or under the directsupervision of any health care professional under a medical plan of care in apatient's residence on a visit or hourly basis to patients who have or are atrisk of injury, illness, or a disabling condition and require short-term orlong-term interventions;
2. Personal care services, including assistance in personal care to includeactivities of daily living provided in an individual's residence on a visitor hourly basis to individuals who have or are at risk of an illness, injuryor disabling condition; or
3. Pharmaceutical services, including services provided in a patient'sresidence, which include the dispensing and administration of a drug ordrugs, and parenteral nutritional support, associated patient instruction,and such other services as identified by the Board of Health by regulation.
"Person" includes any partnership, corporation, association or other legalentity, public or private.
"Residence" means the place where the individual or patient makes his homesuch as his own apartment or house, a relative's home or an assisted livingfacility, but shall not include a hospital, nursing facility or nursing homeor other extended care facility.
(1986, c. 633; 1991, c. 695; 1993, cc. 957, 993.)