Section He-Hea 2101.01 - Definitions(a) "Acute care hospital" means a facility licensed as a general hospital under RSA 151.(b) "Applicant" means "applicant" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, II.(c) "Board" means "board" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, IV.(d) "Board-certified" means the confirmation given by a national or regional association to a physician as having passed special examinations for his or her medical specialty.(e) "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)" means the federal agency responsible for the management of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, 2 national health insurance programs for the economically disadvantaged and persons aged 65 and over.(f) "Certificate of need (CON)" means "certificate of need" as defined in RSA 151-C:2, VIII.(g) "Deeming authority" means the authority granted by CMS to an accrediting organization to enforce CMS standards relating to Medicare and Medicaid participation.(h) "Department" means the N.H. department of health and human services.(i) "Detrimental" means an adverse impact on the ability to maintain the accessibility, quality and cost of health care services in the area.(j) "Diagnosis Related Groups code (DRG)" means the statistical symbol used to categorize major diagnosis and procedures, age, sex and the presence of complications or co morbidities, of hospitalized patients for medical records and reimbursement purposes.(k) "Free-standing long-term acute care hospital (free-standing LTACH)" means a long-term acute care hospital that is owned, operated and located distinctly apart from any existing licensed facility.(l) "Hospital within a Hospital (HwH)" means a long-term acute care hospital that: (1) Is licensed pursuant to RSA 151;(2) Occupies space in a building or on the same campus also used by an existing licensed acute care hospital; and(3) Can certify that it will comply with CMS requirements to meet conditions of participation for an HwH.(m) "Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)" means a not-for-profit-accrediting organization that provides healthcare and accrediting performance standards to healthcare organizations. It includes the term "The Joint Commission (TJC)."(n) "Long-term acute care bed" means a bed in an LTACH reserved for patients receiving long-term acute care services.(o) "Long-term acute care hospital (LTACH)" means a facility that is certified by CMS as a long-term acute care hospital and licensed pursuant to RSA 151, and provides a broad spectrum of clinical services to acutely ill and medically complex patients requiring, on average, a length of stay of 25 days or greater.(p) "Marshall Valuation Service" means an appraisal guide for the development and reporting of replacement building and equipment costs used to determine construction/renovation costs of commercial buildings.(q) "Quality improvement program" means a comprehensive, ongoing facility-wide program designed to: (1) Assess the provision of long-term acute care services;(2) Identify quality improvement opportunities and system failures; and(3) Assure that remedial action is implemented and evaluated.(r) "Satellite long-term acute care hospital (satellite LTACH)" means an extension of an existing long-term acute care hospital that:(1) Is licensed pursuant to RSA 151;(2) Provides long term acute inpatient services to patients in the same building or on the same campus as an acute care hospital but is not operated under common ownership or control with the host acute care hospital; and(3) Can certify that it will comply with CMS requirements to meet conditions of participation for a satellite LTACH.(s) "Story height multiplier" means the number by which the base cost of a building is multiplied to adjust for any variation in average story height from the base of 12 feet.N.H. Admin. Code § He-Hea 2101.01