N.J. Admin. Code § 8:39-47.2
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Hospital-based subacute care unit" means a distinct unit located within an acute care general hospital that utilizes licensed long-term care beds to provide subacute care.
"Subacute care" in an acute care general hospital means a comprehensive inpatient program for patients who have had an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease process, have a determined course of treatment prescribed, and do not require intensive diagnostic or intensive invasive procedures, but the patient's condition requires physician direction, intensive nursing care, frequent recurrent patient assessment and review of the clinical course and treatment plan for a period of time, significant use of ancillary medical services and an interdisciplinary approach using professional teams of physicians, nurses and other relevant professional disciplines to deliver complex clinical interventions.
N.J. Admin. Code § 8:39-47.2