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Substitute House Bill No. 6733

Public Act No. 23-31 5 of 74

home that provides skilled nursing care under medical supervision and direction to carry out nonsurgical treatment and dietary procedures for chronic diseases, convalescent stages, acute diseases or injuries; (p) "Outpatient dialysis unit" means (1) an out-of-hospital out-patient dialysis unit that is licensed by the department to provide (A) services on an out-patient basis to persons requiring dialysis on a short-term basis or for a chronic condition, or (B) training for home dialysis, or (2) an in-hospital dialysis unit that is a special unit of a licensed hospital designed, equipped and staffed to (A) offer dialysis therapy on an out- patient basis, (B) provide training for home dialysis, and (C) perform renal transplantations; (q) "Hospice agency" means a public or private organization that provides home care and hospice services to terminally ill patients; (r) "Psychiatric residential treatment facility" means a nonhospital facility with a provider agreement with the Department of Social Services to provide inpatient services to Medicaid-eligible individuals under the age of twenty-one; [and] (s) "Chronic disease hospital" means a long-term hospital having facilities, medical staff and all necessary personnel for the diagnosis, care and treatment of chronic diseases; (t) "Blood collection facility" means a facility that performs blood component collection activities where blood is removed from a human being for the purpose of administering such blood or any of its components to any human being. "Blood collection facility" does not include a facility that performs blood component collection activities to collect source plasma or perform testing that would require licensure as a clinical laboratory. For the purposes of this subsection, "source plasma" means the liquid portion of human blood collected by plasmapheresis and intended as source material for further