North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 14 - Director, Division of Health Service Regulation
Subchapter C - CERTIFICATE OF NEED REGULATIONS
Section .2100 - CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR SURGICAL SERVICES AND OPERATING ROOMS
Section 14C .2101 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
The following definitions apply to all rules in this Section:
(1) "Approved operating rooms" means those operating rooms that were approved for a certificate of need by the CON Section prior to the date on which the applicant's proposed project was submitted to the CON Section, but that have not been licensed.
(2) "Dedicated C-section operating room" means an operating room as defined in Chapter 6 in the annual State Medical Facilities Plan.
(3) "Existing operating rooms" means those operating rooms in ambulatory surgical facilities and hospitals that were reported in the Ambulatory Surgical Facility License Renewal Application Form or in the Hospital License Renewal Application Form submitted to the Acute and Home Care Licensure and Certification Section of the Division of Health Service Regulation, and that were licensed prior to the beginning of the review period.
(4) "Health System" shall have the same meaning as defined in Chapter 6 in the annual State Medical Facilities Plan.
(5) "Operating room" means a room as defined in G.S. 131E-176(18c).
(6) "Operating Room Need Methodology" means the Methodology for Projecting Operating Room Need in Chapter 6 in the annual State Medical Facilities Plan.
(7) "Service area" means the Operating Room Service Area as defined in Chapter 6 in the annual State Medical Facilities Plan.
Authority
G.S.
131E-177(1);
131E-183(b);
Eff. November 1, 1990;
Amended Eff. March 1, 1993;
Temporary Amendment Eff. September 1, 1993 for a period of 180 days or until
the permanent rule becomes effective, whichever is sooner;
Amended
Eff. January 4, 1994;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1,
1999;
Temporary Eff. January 1, 1999 Expired on October 12,
1999;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1, 2000;
Temporary Amendment effective January 1, 2000 amends and replaces a permanent
rulemaking originally proposed to be effective August 2000;
Amended
Eff. April 1, 2001;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1, 2002; July
1, 2001;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2002;
Temporary
Amendment effective January 1, 2002 amends and replaces the permanent rule
effective August 1, 2002;
Amended Eff. April 1, 2003;
Temporary Amendment Eff. January 1, 2005;
Amended Eff. November 1,
2005;
Temporary Rule Eff. February 1, 2006;
Amended
Eff. November 1, 2006;
Temporary Amendment Eff. February 1,
2008;
Amended Eff. November 1, 2008.
Temporary
Amendment Eff. February 1, 2018;
Amended Eff. December 1,
2018;
Readopted Eff. January 1,
2021.
