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Substitute House Bill No. 6733
Public Act No. 23-31 4 of 74
(k) "Home health agency" means an agency licensed as a home health care agency or a home health aide agency; (l) "Assisted living services agency" means an agency that provides [, among other things] chronic and stable individuals with services that include, but need not limited to, nursing services and assistance with activities of daily living [to a population that is chronic and stable] and may have a dementia special care unit or program as defined in section 19a-562; (m) "Outpatient clinic" means an organization operated by a municipality or a corporation, other than a hospital, that provides (1) ambulatory medical care, including preventive and health promotion services, (2) dental care, or (3) mental health services in conjunction with medical or dental care for the purpose of diagnosing or treating a health condition that does not require the patient's overnight care; (n) "Multicare institution" means a hospital that provides outpatient behavioral health services or other health care services, psychiatric outpatient clinic for adults, free-standing facility for the care or treatment of substance abusive or dependent persons, hospital for psychiatric disabilities, as defined in section 17a-495, or a general acute care hospital that provides outpatient behavioral health services that (1) is licensed in accordance with this chapter, (2) has more than one facility or one or more satellite units owned and operated by a single licensee, and (3) offers complex patient health care services at each facility or satellite unit. For purposes of this subsection, "satellite unit" means a location where a segregated unit of services is provided by the multicare institution; (o) "Nursing home" or "nursing home facility" means (1) any chronic and convalescent nursing home or any rest home with nursing supervision that provides nursing supervision under a medical director twenty-four hours per day, or (2) any chronic and convalescent nursing