RS 40:2120.42

§2120.42. Definitions As used in this Part: (1) "Adult day health care" means a medical model adult day health care program designed to provide services for medical, nursing, social, care management, and personal care needs to adults who are functionally impaired. Such services are rendered for a portion of a twenty-four-hour day by utilizing licensed professionals in a center-based nursing program. (2) "Adult day health care provider" or "provider" means any place owned or operated for profit or nonprofit by a person, society, agency, corporation, institution, or any other group wherein two or more functionally impaired adults who are not related to the owner or operator of such agency are provided with adult day health care services, as defined in this Section. (3) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health. (4) "Functionally impaired adults" means persons seventeen years of age or older who are physically or mentally impaired to a degree that they are in need of supervision. Acts 2006, No. 637, §1, eff. June 23, 2006; Acts 2008, No. 174, §1.