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R9-10-101. Definitions In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. §§ 36-401(A) and 36-439, the following definitions apply in this Chapter unless otherwise specified: 1. "Abortion clinic" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. § 36-449.01. 2. "Abuse" means: a. The same: i. For an individual 18 years of age or older, as in A.R.S. § 46-451; and ii. For an individual less than 18 years of age, as in A.R.S. § 8-201; b. A pattern of ridiculing or demeaning a patient; c. Making derogatory remarks or verbally harassing a patient; or d. Threatening to inflict physical harm on a patient. 3. "Accredited" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. § 36-422. 4. "Active malignancy" means a cancer for which: a. A patient is undergoing treatment, such as through: i. One or more surgical procedures to remove the cancer; ii. Chemotherapy, as defined in A.A.C. R9-4-401; or iii. Radiation treatment, as defined in A.A.C. R9-4-401; b. There is no treatment; or c. A patient is refusing treatment. 5. "Activities of daily living" means ambulating, bathing, toileting, grooming, eating, and getting in or out of a bed or a chair. 6. "Acuity" means a patient's need for medical services, nursing services, or behavioral health services based on the patient's medical condition or behavioral health issue. 7. "Acuity plan" means a method for establishing nursing personnel requirements by unit based on a patient's acuity. 8. "Adjacent" means not intersected by: a. Property owned, operated, or controlled by a person other than the applicant or licensee; or b. A public thoroughfare. 9. "Administrative completeness review time-frame" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. § 41-1072. 10. "Administrative office" means a location used by personnel for recordkeeping and record retention but not for providing medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, or health-related services. 11. "Admission" or "admitted" means, after completion of an individual's screening or registration by a health care institution, the individual begins receiving physical health services or behavioral health services and is accepted as a patient of the health care institution. 12. "Adult" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. § 1-215. 13. "Adult behavioral health therapeutic home" means a residence that provides room and board, assists in acquiring daily living skills, coordinates transportation to scheduled appointments, monitors behaviors, assists in the self-administration of medication, and provides feedback to a case manager related to behavior for an individual 18 years of age or older based on the individual's behavioral health issue and need for behavioral health services and may provide behavioral health services under the clinical oversight of a behavioral health professional. 14. "Adult residential care institution" means a subclass of behavioral health residential facility that only admits residents 18 years of age and older and provides recidivism reduction services. 15. "Adverse reaction" means an unexpected outcome that threatens the health or safety of a patient as a result of a medical service, nursing service, or health-related service provided to the patient. 16. "Affiliated counseling facility" means a counseling facility that shares administrative support with one or more other counseling facilities that operate under the same governing authority. 17. "Affiliated outpatient treatment center" means an outpatient treatment center authorized by the Department to provide behavioral health services that provides administrative support to a counseling facility or counseling facilities that operate under the same governing authority as the outpatient treatment center. 18. "Alternate licensing fee due date" means the last calendar day in a month each year, other than the anniversary date of a facility's health care institution license, by which a licensee is required to pay the applicable fees in R9-10-106. 19. "Ancillary services"

R9-10-102. Health Care Institution Classes and Subclasses; Requirements D. A health care institution shall comply with the requirements in Article 17 of this Chapter if: 1. There are no specific rules in another Article of this Chapter for the health care institution's class or subclass, or 2. The Department determines that the health care institution is an unclassified health care institution.