N.Y. Public Health Law § 4002: Definitions

§ 4002. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and

phrases shall have the following meanings:

1. "Hospice" means a coordinated program of home and in-patient care

which treats the terminally ill patient and family as a unit, employing

an interdisciplinary team acting under the direction of an autonomous

hospice administration. The program provides palliative and supportive

care to meet the special needs arising out of physical, psychological,

spiritual, social and economic stresses which are experienced during the

final stages of illness, and during dying and bereavement.

2. "Hospice demonstration program participant" means a hospice which

was approved to participate in the hospice demonstration program

established pursuant to chapter seven hundred eighteen of the laws of

nineteen hundred seventy-eight and is operating on the thirtieth day of

June, nineteen hundred eighty-three.

2-a. "Home" shall include a hospice patient's home or a hospice

residence.

2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is

residential in character and physical structure and operated for the

purpose of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than

sixteen hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually

certified hospice in-patient beds up to one hundred percent of the

hospice residence's patient capacity.

3. "Construction" means construction as defined in section thirty-six

hundred two of this chapter.

4. "Public health council" and "state hospital review and planning

council" shall mean the public health and health planning council.

5. "Terminally ill" means an individual has a medical prognosis that

the individual's life expectancy is approximately one year or less if

the illness runs its normal course.