§1185.3. Definitions

As used in this Part, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.

(2) "Federally qualified health center" means a facility which is engaged in furnishing primary health services to outpatients by physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners, including but not limited to health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology and such services and supplies incident thereto. Such facility shall serve a medically underserved population, meaning the population of an urban or rural area designated by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services as an area with a shortage of personal health services or a population group designated by the secretary as having a shortage of such services, such as migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, the homeless, residents of public housing, or students and other family members of students of a particular school or schools. Such a facility shall have been designated as a federally qualified health center by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and shall be receiving grants or loans as may be granted by the secretary under 42 U.S.C. 254b.

(3) "Rural health clinic" means a facility which is engaged in furnishing primary health services to outpatients by physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners, including but not limited to health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology and such services and supplies incident thereto. Such facility shall be located in an area that is not an urbanized area, as defined by the Bureau of the Census, in which there are insufficient numbers of needed health care practitioners, as determined by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and which has been determined to be a rural health clinic by the secretary of said department under 42 U.S.C. 1395aa(a).

Acts 2004, No. 36, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1300.233 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.