PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

§323F-1  Definitions.  As used in thischapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Consumer" means any individual whomay utilize a Hawaii health systems facility for health services and is not aprovider.

"Corporation" means the bodycorporate and politic known as the Hawaii health systems corporation.

"Corporation board" means the boardof directors of the corporation.

"Department" means the department ofhealth.

"Director" means the director ofhealth.

"Division" means the programs,services, and facilities operated by the department of health, division ofcommunity hospitals, prior to the transfer date.

"Health facility" means any one ofthe facilities that constitute the division of community hospitals.

"Health systems assets" means allproperty or rights in property, real, personal and mixed, tangible orintangible, existing on the transfer date, used by or accruing to the divisionin the normal course of its operations.

"Provider" means any supplier ofmedical or health care goods and services of the type provided at a Hawaii health systems facility.

"Regional system board" means acommunity-based governing board of directors of a regional system of thecorporation.

"Transfer date" means a date agreedto by the department and the corporation for the transfer of health systemsassets to and the assumption of health systems liabilities, which includeswithout limitation, all debts or other obligations, contingent or certain,owing on such date, by the corporation. [L 1996, c 262, pt of §2; am L 2007, c290, §17]