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1339.40
. For the purposes of this article, the following
definitions apply:
(a) "Bereavement services" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 1746.
(b) "Hospice care" means a specialized form of interdisciplinary
health care that is designed to provide palliative care, alleviate
the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual discomforts of an
individual who is experiencing the last phases of life due to the
existence of a terminal disease, and provide supportive care to the
primary caregiver and the family of the hospice patient, and that
meets all of the following criteria:
(1) Considers the patient and the patient's family, in addition to
the patient, as the unit of care.
(2) Utilizes an interdisciplinary team to assess the physical,
medical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the patient
and the patient's family.
(3) Requires the interdisciplinary team to develop an overall plan
of care and to provide coordinated care that emphasizes supportive
services, including, but not limited to, home care, pain control, and
limited inpatient services. Limited inpatient services are intended
to ensure both continuity of care and appropriateness of services for
those patients who cannot be managed at home because of acute
complications or the temporary absence of a capable primary
caregiver.
(4) Provides for the palliative medical treatment of pain and
other symptoms associated with a terminal disease, but does not
provide for efforts to cure the disease.
(5) Provides for bereavement services following death to assist
the family in coping with social and emotional needs associated with
the death of the patient.
(6) Actively utilizes volunteers in the delivery of hospice
services.
(7) To the extent appropriate, based on the medical needs of the
patient, provides services in the patient's home or primary place of
residence.
(c) "Hospice facility" means a health facility as defined in
subdivision (n) of Section 1250.
(d) "Inpatient hospice care" means hospice care that is provided
to patients in a hospice facility, including routine, continuous and
inpatient care directly as specified in Section 418.110 of Title 42
of the Code of Federal Regulations, and may include short-term
inpatient respite care as specified in Section 418.108 of Title 42 of
the Code of Federal Regulations.
(e) "Interdisciplinary team" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (g) of Section 1746.
(f) "Medical direction" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (h) of Section 1746.
(g) "Palliative care" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (j) of Section 1746.
(h) "Plan of care" has the same meaning as defined in subdivision
(l) of Section 1746.
(i) "Skilled nursing services" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (n) of Section 1746.
(j) "Social services/counseling services" has the same meaning as
defined in subdivision (o) of Section 1746.
(k) "Terminal disease" or "terminal illness" has the same meaning
as defined in subdivision (p) of Section 1746.
(l) "Volunteer services" has the same meaning as defined in
subdivision (q) of Section 1746.