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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-901" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Hospice Care Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“General hospice care program” means a coordinated, interdisciplinary program of hospice care services for meeting the special physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs of dying individuals and their families, by providing palliative and supportive medical, nursing, and other health services through home or inpatient care during the illness and bereavement:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To individuals who have no reasonable prospect of cure as estimated by a physician; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To the families of those individuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“General license” means a license issued by the Secretary to operate a general hospice care program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Home–based hospice care program” means a program that directly or through a contractual arrangement provides a hospice care program in the residence of the patient.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Hospice facility” means a facility that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provides a hospice care program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is separate from any other facility; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Admits at least 2 individuals who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Are unrelated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Have no reasonable prospect of a cure.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Limited hospice care program” means a coordinated, interdisciplinary program of hospice care services for meeting the special physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs of dying individuals and their families, by providing palliative and supportive nonskilled services through a home–based hospice care program during illness and bereavement:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To individuals who have no reasonable prospect of cure as estimated by a physician; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To the families of those individuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Limited license” means a license issued by the Secretary to operate a limited hospice care program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
