Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R432 - Health Care Facility Licensing
Rule R432-750 - Hospice Rule
Section R432-750-3 - Definitions

(1) Section R432-1-3 additionally applies.

(2) "Appropriate" means especially suitable, compatible, or fitting.

(3) "Bereavement" means the period, usually occurring within the first year after the loss, when a person or group of people experiences, responds emotionally to, and adjusts to the loss by death of another person.

(4) "Care" means to perceive and respond to the needs of another.

(5) "Certification in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" (CPR) refers to certification issued after completion of an in-person course, to include skills testing and evaluation on-site with a licensed instructor.

(6) "Department" means the Department of Health and Human Services

(7) "Family" means a group of individuals who:

(8) "Grief" means the response to loss that often occurs in stages of varying length. Stages are differentiated by changes in feeling, thought, and behavior.

(9) "Hospice" means an entity that is primarily engaged in providing care to terminally ill individuals and their families and includes institutionally based hospice programs, freestanding public and proprietary hospice agencies, and any subdivision of an organization, public agency, hospital, or nursing home licensed to provide hospice services.

(10) "Hospice Administrator" means a person who the governing body appoints in writing by the governing body of the hospice organization and who shall be accountable and responsible for implementing the policies and programs approved by the governing body.

(11) "Hospice Care" means the care given to the terminally ill and their family that occurs in a home or in a health facility and includes medical, palliative, psychosocial, spiritual, bereavement, supportive care, and treatment.

(12) "Hospice Inpatient Facility" means a freestanding licensed hospice facility or designated hospice licensed hospice unit in an existing health care facility.

(13) "Interdisciplinary Team" means a team composed of an attending physician, medical director, nurse, social worker, pastoral care provider, volunteer, patient, patient's family, and any other professionals as indicated.

(14) "Palliative Treatment" means treatment and comfort measures directed toward relief of symptoms and pain management rather than treatment to cure.

(15) "Palliative Care" means the care given to the terminally ill, focusing on relief of distressing symptoms.

(16) "Pastoral Care Provider" means an individual who has experience in pastoral duties and is capable of providing for hospice patient and patient family spiritual needs, and is an individual who:

(17) "Primary Care Giver" means the family member or other person designated by the family who assumes the overall responsibility for the care of the patient in the home.

(18) "Spiritual" means patient and patient's family beliefs and practices as they relate to the meaning of their life, death, and their connection to humanity that may or may not be of a religious nature.

(19) "Terminal" means a state of disease characterized by a progressive deterioration with impairment of function that without aggressive intervention, survival is anticipated to be six months or less.

(20) "Volunteer" means an individual who has received appropriate orientation and training consistent with acceptable standards of hospice philosophy and practice and who contributes time and talent to the hospice program without economic remuneration.