65-425. Definitions. As used in this act:
(a) "General hospital" means an establishment with an organized medical staff of physicians; with permanent facilities that include inpatient beds; and with medical services, including physician services, and continuous registered professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day, to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients who have a variety of medical conditions.
(b) "Special hospital" means an establishment with an organized medical staff of physicians; with permanent facilities that include inpatient beds; and with medical services, including physician services, and continuous registered professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day, to provide diagnosis and treatment for patients who have specified medical conditions.
(c) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint-stock association, and the legal successor thereof.
(d) "Governmental unit" means the state, or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision thereof; or any department, division, board or other agency of any of the foregoing.
(e) "Licensing agency" means the department of health and environment.
(f) "Ambulatory surgical center" means an establishment with an organized medical staff of one or more physicians; with permanent facilities that are equipped and operated primarily for the purpose of performing surgical procedures; with continuous physician services during surgical procedures and until the patient has recovered from the obvious effects of anesthetic and at all other times with physician services available whenever a patient is in the facility; with continuous registered professional nursing services whenever a patient is in the facility; and which does not provide services or other accommodations for patient to stay more than 24 hours. Before discharge from an ambulatory surgical center, each patient shall be evaluated by a physician for proper anesthesia recovery. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the office of a physician or physicians to be licensed under this act as an ambulatory surgical center.
(g) "Recuperation center" means an establishment with an organized medical staff of physicians, permanent facilities that include inpatient beds, medical services, including physician services, and continuous registered professional nursing services for not less than 24 hours of every day, to provide treatment for patients who require inpatient care but are not in an acute phase of illness, who currently require primary convalescent or restorative services and who have a variety of medical conditions.
(h) "Medical care facility" means a hospital, ambulatory surgical center or recuperation center, except that "medical care facility" does not include a hospice that is certified to participate in the medicare program under 42 C.F.R. § 418.1 et seq. and that provides services only to hospice patients.
(i) "Critical access hospital" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 65-468 and amendments thereto.
(j) "Hospital" means general hospital, critical access hospital or special hospital.
(k) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this state.
(l) "Rural emergency hospital" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 65-482, and amendments thereto.
History: L. 1947, ch. 329, § 1; L. 1949, ch. 328, § 1; L. 1971, ch. 204, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 248, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 83; L. 1992, ch. 158, § 8; L. 1993, ch. 255, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 6, § 3; L. 1998, ch. 53, § 1; L. 2021, ch. 88, § 12; May 6.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 4 - Hospitals And Other Facilities
65-407 Same; notices and statement of claims; requirements.
65-408 Same; persons liable to hospital; limitation of actions.
65-409 Hospital lien; fee for filing; authorized only by legislative enactment.
65-412 Administration of act by secretary of health and environment; state medical facilities plan.
65-413 General powers and duties.
65-415 Survey and planning activities.
65-416 State medical facilities plan; provisions.
65-417 Application for federal funds for survey and planning; expenditure.
65-419 Same; priority of projects.
65-420 Medical facility projects; application for funds.
65-421 Consideration and forwarding of applications; hearing.
65-422 Inspection of projects; certification.
65-423 Medical facilities project fund established; deposit of federal moneys; uses.
65-424a Medical facilities; definition.
65-424b Same; construction, operation and leasing by certain municipalities authorized.
65-428 Application for license; contents.
65-430 Denial, suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing.
65-432 Time for compliance with rules, regulations and standards.
65-433 Inspections and investigations; rules and regulations; consultations.
65-435a Development of contents of annual report and inspection form; rules and regulations.
65-436 Information confidential; exceptions.
65-437 Annual report of licensing agency.
65-438 Appeal from decision of licensing agency.
65-442a Same; act inapplicable to adult care home licensed under chapter 39.
65-444 Same; medical care facility refusal to permit; establishment of criteria and procedures.
65-451 Construction or modification of certain hospitals prohibited until July 1, 1986.
65-453 Same; emergency waiver, when; secretary of health and environment.
65-454 Same; action to enjoin violation.
65-469 Same; state policy to encourage rural health networks.
65-470 Same; participation in or affiliation with a rural health network; contracts.
65-473 Same; rules and regulations; minimum standards for rural health networks.
65-481 Rural emergency hospital act; citation of act.
65-485 Same; authorization to contract for federal reimbursement.
65-487 Same; rules and regulations.
65-488 Same; insurance coverage parity for services performance by a rural emergency hospital.