Section He-Hea 1002.01 - Definitions(a) "Acute care facility" means a hospital which cares primarily for patients having conditions or undergoing procedures which could result in severe or serious injury or diseases.(b) "Adjusted Admission" means a calculation performed by hospitals to factor in outpatient and other hospital service activity to traditional inpatient admission totals to arrive at a total account of hospital business.(c) "Application" means a proposal prepared by a person and filed with board for a certificate of need.(d) "Applicant" means "applicant" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, II.(e) "Board" means "board" as defined in RSA 151-C:3.(f) "Capital expenditure" means a disbursement which, under generally accepted accounting principles is not properly chargeable as an expense of operation or maintenance, and includes acquisition by purchase, by transfer or by lease or comparable arrangement or through donation if the expenditure would have been considered a capital expenditure if the acquisition had been by purchase.(g) "Certificate of need (CON)" means "certificate of need" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, VIII.(h) "Length of stay" means the number of days a patient stays in a facility.(i) "Market share population" means the number and/or percent of patients in a given service area utilizing a specific acute care facility.(j) "Marshall Valuation Service (MVS)" means an appraisal guide for the development and reporting of replacement building and equipment costs used to determine construction costs of commercial buildings.(k) "Normile methodology" means a mathematical model used to determine bed need which assumes that the incidence of need for hospital care follows a normal distribution of occurrence.(l) "Occupancy" means the ratio of beds that is calculated by dividing the total beds occupied by the total licensed bed capacity of the hospital as licensed by the New Hampshire department of health and human services, bureau of health facilities administration.(m) "Operating revenue" means the revenue collected from the provision of patient care services.(n) "Patient charges" means the aggregate price charged for patient care services at a healthcare facility.(o) "Person" means "person" as defined in RSA 151-C: 2, XXVIII.(p) "Renovation" means a capital expenditure which repairs, remodels and/or reconfigures existing space.(q) "Replacement" means a capital expenditure which rebuilds in whole or in part an acute care facility on a new or the original site.(r) "Service area" means a geographic area which is served by each acute care hospital and is determined by service area boundaries extrapolated through hospital utilization patterns from a data base known as the uniform hospital discharge data system that is maintained in accordance with RSA 126:25.(s) "Story height multiplier" means the number by which the base cost of a building is multiplied to adjust for any variation in average story height from the base of 12 feet.(t) "Total patient days" means the sum of the number of days patients stay at a healthcare facility.(u) "Uniform hospital discharge data set (UHDDS)" means a dataset containing data from all New Hampshire hospitals that is maintained in accordance with RSA 126:25.N.H. Admin. Code § He-Hea 1002.01
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