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Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 400
NURSING HOMES AND RELATED HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

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F.S. 400.601

400.601 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:

(1) “Agency” means the Agency for Health Care Administration.

(2) “Department” means the Department of Elderly Affairs.

(3) “Hospice” means a centrally administered corporation or a limited liability company that provides a continuum of palliative and supportive care for the terminally ill patient and his or her family.

(4) “Hospice care team” means an interdisciplinary team of qualified professionals and volunteers who, in consultation with the patient, the patient’s family, and the patient’s primary or attending physician, collectively assess, coordinate, and provide the appropriate palliative and supportive care to hospice patients and their families.

(5) “Hospice residential unit” means a homelike living facility, other than a facility licensed under other parts of this chapter, under chapter 395, or under chapter 429, that is operated by a hospice for the benefit of its patients and is considered by a patient who lives there to be his or her primary residence.

(6) “Hospice services” means items and services furnished to a patient and family by a hospice, or by others under arrangements with such a program, in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the patient’s home for the purpose of maintaining the patient at home; or, if the patient needs short-term institutionalization, the services shall be furnished in cooperation with those contracted institutions or in the hospice inpatient facility.

(7) “Palliative care” means services or interventions which are not curative but are provided for the reduction or abatement of pain and human suffering.

(8) “Patient” means the terminally ill individual receiving hospice services.

(9) “Plan of care” means a written assessment by the hospice of each patient’s and family’s needs and preferences, and the services to be provided by the hospice to meet those needs.

(10) “Terminally ill” means that the patient has a medical prognosis that his or her life expectancy is 1 year or less if the illness runs its normal course.

History.—s. 1, ch. 79-186; s. 1, ch. 80-64; s. 256, ch. 81-259; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 79, 83, ch. 83-181; ss. 2, 14, ch. 93-179; s. 788, ch. 95-148; s. 57, ch. 95-418; s. 1, ch. 2006-155; s. 65, ch. 2006-197; s. 14, ch. 2012-160.

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Amendments to 400.601

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 400.601

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 400.601.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 400.601

Total Results: 4

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 2011-06-16

Snippet: s. 25.5-5-304 et seq., Colo. Rev. Stat.; ss. 400.601 et. seq., Mich. Comp. Laws; s. 63-5053 et seq.

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Court: Florida Attorney General Reports | Date Filed: 1994-12-13

Snippet: unexpected circumstances are present." 7 See, s. 400.601(2), Fla. Stat. (1993), defining "[h]ospice" to

Herbert ex rel. Browning v. State

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1989-04-10

Citation: 543 So. 2d 258, 14 Fla. L. Weekly 956, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 1960

Snippet: the full array of treatment in a hospital. §§ 400.601-.614, Fla.Stat. (1987). For purposes of hospice

In Re Guardianship of Browning

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1989-04-10

Citation: 543 So. 2d 258, 1989 WL 34840

Snippet: the full array of treatment in a hospital. §§ 400.601-.614, Fla. Stat. (1987). For purposes of hospice