(b) As used in this part:

1. (1) “Administrator” means the person responsible for the management of a hospice;

2. (2) “Attending physician” means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is:

   1. (A) Licensed in the State of Arkansas; and
   2. (B) Identified by the patient, at the time he or she elects to receive hospice care, as having the most significant role in the determination and delivery of the patient’s medical care;
3. (3) “Autonomous” means a separate and distinct entity that functions under its own administrations and bylaws either within or independently of a parent organization;
4. (4) “Bereavement counseling” means counseling services provided to the patient’s family after the patient’s death;
5. (5) “Clergy” or “pastoral counselor” means an individual with training in spiritual counseling;
6. (6) “Department” means the Department of Health;
7. (7) “Division of Health Facilities Services” is the facility licensing division of the Department of Health;
8. (8) “Election statement” means the initial election for hospice care signed by the patient or patient’s representative;

9. (9)

   1. (A) “Employee” means an individual paid either through a salary or on an hourly or per-visit basis and a Form W-2 is issued on his or her behalf.
   2. (B) An “employee” also refers to a volunteer under the jurisdiction of the hospice;
10. (10) “Functional program” describes those services to be provided by the hospice for the operation of the facility;
11. (11) “Hospice agency” means any agency, person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization, whether public or private, proprietary or nonprofit, that provides hospice service;

12. (12) “Hospice” or “hospice care” means an autonomous, centrally administered, medically directed, coordinated program providing a continuum of home, outpatient, and homelike inpatient care for the terminally ill patient and family, employing an interdisciplinary team to assist in providing palliative and supportive care to meet the special needs arising out of the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic stresses that are experienced during the final stages of illness and during dying and bereavement, with such care:

    1. (A) Being available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week; and
    2. (B) Provided on the basis of need regardless of ability to pay;
13. (13) “Informed consent” specifies the type of care and services agreed upon by the hospice patient or the patient’s representative;
14. (14) “Inpatient direct care hospice” means a licensed hospice facility that provides direct inpatient care to the terminally ill;
15. (15) “Registered nurse” (RN) means a person licensed in the State of Arkansas as a registered nurse;
16. (16) “Representative” means a person who is, because of the patient’s mental or physical incapacity, authorized in accordance with state law to execute or revoke an election for hospice care or terminate medical care on behalf of the terminally ill patient;
17. (17) “Satellite office” or “alternate delivery site” means an approved location or site from which a hospice provides services within a portion of the total geographic area served by the parent hospice agency;
18. (18) “Service area” means the geographic land area for which the agency shall be licensed consistent with the agency’s permit of approval (POA) or the service area of record prior to the requirement for a POA;

19. (19) “Social worker” means a person who:

    1. (A) Has at least a bachelor’s degree from a school accredited or approved by the Council on Social Work Education; and
    2. (B) Is licensed by the State of Arkansas as a social worker; and

20. (20) “Terminally ill” means that the patient:

    1. (A) Is in the last phases of an incurable illness or condition; and
    2. (B) Has a limited prognosis.