PRINTER'S NO. 1579
No. 1264 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, BELFANTI, BOYD, CAPPELLI, GEIST,
GINGRICH, GRUCELA, KULA, MAHONEY, MOYER, PAYNE, SONNEY,
STABACK, J. WHITE, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND MUNDY,
MAY 18, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MAY 18, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), entitled "An
2 act relating to health care; prescribing the powers and
3 duties of the Department of Health; establishing and
4 providing the powers and duties of the State Health
5 Coordinating Council, health systems agencies and Health Care
6 Policy Board in the Department of Health, and State Health
7 Facility Hearing Board in the Department of Justice;
8 providing for certification of need of health care providers
9 and prescribing penalties," further providing for
10 definitions.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. The definition of "health care facility" in
14 section 103 of the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48), known
15 as the Health Care Facilities Act, amended October 16, 1998
16 (P.L.777, No.95), is amended and the section is amended by
17 adding a definition to read:
18 Section 103. Definitions.
19 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
20 have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
1 meanings given to them in this section:
2 * * *
3 "Health care facility." For purposes of Chapter 7, any
4 health care facility providing clinically related health
5 services, including, but not limited to, a general or special
6 hospital, including psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation
7 hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, long-term care
8 nursing facilities, cancer treatment centers using radiation
9 therapy on an ambulatory basis and inpatient drug and alcohol
10 treatment facilities, both profit and nonprofit and including
11 those operated by an agency or State or local government. The
12 term shall also include a hospice and a sleep center, regardless
13 of whether the sleep center is operated for profit. The term
14 shall not include an office used primarily for the private or
15 group practice by health care practitioners where no reviewable
16 clinically related health service is offered, a facility
17 providing treatment solely on the basis of prayer or spiritual
18 means in accordance with the tenets of any church or religious
19 denomination or a facility conducted by a religious organization
20 for the purpose of providing health care services exclusively to
21 clergy or other persons in a religious profession who are
22 members of the religious denominations conducting the facility.
23 * * *
24 "Sleep center." Any sleep disorder center, sleep laboratory
25 or other facility, which provides testing and treatment for
26 sleep disorders or which otherwise focuses on sleep-related
27 breathing disorders.
28 * * *
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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