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 .4000 - CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR HOSPICE INPATIENT FACILITIES AND HOSPICE RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES
Section 14C .4001 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this Section:
(1) "Approved beds" means hospice inpatient facility or hospice residential care facility beds that were issued a certificate of need but are not licensed as of the application deadline for the review period.
(2) "Average daily census (ADC)" means the total number of days of care provided in the hospice inpatient facility or hospice residential care facility beds during a full fiscal year of operation divided by 365 days.
(3) "Existing beds" means hospice inpatient facility or hospice residential care facility beds that are licensed as of the application deadline for the review period.
(4) "Hospice inpatient facility beds" means inpatient beds in a facility licensed in accordance with the rules in Subchapter 10A NCAC 13K which are hereby incorporated by reference including subsequent amendments.
(5) "Hospice residential care facility beds" means group residential care beds in a facility licensed in accordance with the rules in Subchapter 10A NCAC 13K.
(6) "Occupancy rate" means the ADC divided by the total number of existing, approved, and proposed hospice inpatient facility or hospice residential care facility beds expressed as a percentage.
(7) "Proposed beds" means the hospice inpatient facility or hospice residential care facility beds proposed in the application under review.
Authority
G.S.
131E-177(1);
131E-183(b);
Temporary Adoption Eff. February 1, 2006;
Eff. November 1,
2006;
Readopted Eff. January 1,
2023.
