State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Connecticut > Title19a > Chap368z > Sec19a-630Sec. 19a-630. (Formerly Sec. 19a-145). Definitions. As used in this chapter:
(1) "Health care facility or institution" means any facility or institution engaged primarily in providing services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human health conditions, including, but not limited to: Outpatient clinics; outpatient surgical facilities; imaging centers; home health agencies and mobile field hospitals, as defined in section 19a-490; clinical laboratory or central service facilities serving one or more health care facilities, practitioners or institutions; hospitals; nursing homes; rest homes; nonprofit health centers; diagnostic and treatment facilities; rehabilitation facilities; and mental health facilities. "Health care facility or institution" includes any parent company, subsidiary, affiliate or joint venture, or any combination thereof, of any such facility or institution, but does not include any health care facility operated by a nonprofit educational institution solely for the students, faculty and staff of such institution and their dependents, or any Christian Science sanatorium operated, or listed and certified, by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts.
(2) "State health care facility or institution" means a hospital or other such facility or institution operated by the state providing services which are eligible for reimbursement under Title XVIII or XIX of the federal Social Security Act, 42 USC Section 301 et seq., as amended.
(3) "Office" means the Office of Health Care Access.
(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health Care Access.
(5) "Person" has the meaning assigned to it in section 4-166.
(P.A. 73-117, S. 2, 31; 73-616, S. 59; P.A. 75-562, S. 1, 8; P.A. 77-192, S. 1, 13; 77-601, S. 6, 11; 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 78-109, S. 1, 2, 6; P.A. 86-374, S. 1, 6; P.A. 87-420, S. 13, 14; P.A. 89-72, S. 4, 5; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-174, S. 4, 12; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-3, S. 19, 28; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 39, 41, 58; P.A. 98-150, S. 1, 17; P.A. 99-172, S. 2, 7; P.A. 00-27, S. 23, 24; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 30; P.A. 04-249, S. 4; P.A. 05-280, S. 61; P.A. 06-196, S. 213; P.A. 07-252, S. 69.)
History: P.A. 73-616 excluded from consideration as health care facility or institution facilities operated by nonprofit educational institution solely for students, faculty and staff and their dependents; P.A. 75-562 defined "commission" and "commissioner" and extended applicability beyond chapter; P.A. 77-192 defined "state health care facility or institution"; P.A. 77-601 included homemaker-home health aide agencies as health care facilities and institutions; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-109 excluded Christian Science sanatoriums from consideration as health care facilities or institutions and specified that state health care facility or institution is one which provides services reimbursable under Title XVIII or XIX of Social Security Act; Sec. 19-73b transferred to Sec. 19a-145 in 1983; P.A. 86-374 deleted coordination, assessment and monitoring agencies from definition of health care facility or institution; P.A. 87-420 deleted an obsolete reference to Sec. 19a-7; P.A. 89-72 changed "diagnosis and treatment" to "diagnosis or treatment"; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-174 made technical changes in Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) defining "clinical laboratory" for certificate of need purposes, effective June 6, 1994; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-3 amended Subsec. (a) to add outpatient clinics, free-standing outpatient surgical facilities and imaging centers to the definition of health care facilities and to specify that such facilities include any parent company, subsidiary affiliate, joint venture or combination of such, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced reference to Secs. 17b-238 and 19a-114 with reference to chapter 368z, Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access and Commissioner of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; Sec. 19a-145 transferred to Sec. 19a-630 in 1997; P.A. 98-150 changed Subdiv. designations from letters to numbers, amended Subdiv. (1) to change "home health care agencies" to "home health agencies", delete "homemaker-home health aide agencies", change "personal care homes" to "residential care homes" add "rest homes" and delete reference to municipal outpatient clinics, added new Subdiv. (5) defining "affiliate" and deleted former Subsec. (b) defining "clinical laboratory", effective June 5, 1998; P.A. 99-172 replaced former Subdiv. (5) defining "affiliate" with new Subdiv. (5) defining "person", effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 00-27 made technical changes in Subdiv. (1), effective May 1, 2000; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3 amended Subdiv. (1) by deleting "residential care homes" from definition of "health care facility or institution", effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-249 amended Subdiv. (1) by changing "free standing outpatient surgical facilities" to "outpatient surgical facilities", effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-280 amended Subdiv. (1) by including critical access hospital in definition of "health care facility or institution", effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subdiv. (1), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-252 substituted "mobile field hospitals" for "critical access hospitals" in definition of "health care facility or institution", effective July 12, 2007.
See Sec. 19a-507 re New Horizons independent living facility for severely physically disabled adults.
Annotation to former section 19-73b:
Cited. 182 C. 314.
Annotation to former section 19a-145:
Cited. 214 C. 321.
