Section DHS 124.02 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1m) "Critical access hospital" means a hospital that is designated by the department as meeting the requirements of 42 USC 1395i-4(c) (2) (B) and is federally certified as meeting the requirements of 42 USC 1395i-4(e).(2) "Dentist" means a person licensed to practice dentistry under ch. 447, Stats.(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.(5) "Health physicist" means a person holding a masters degree or doctorate in an appropriate discipline of radiologic physics or who has equivalent education and experience.(6)(a) "Hospital" means any building, structure, institution or place that does all of the following: 1. Offers inpatient, overnight care on a 24-hour-a-day basis, or on an as-needed basis in the case of a critical access hospital.2. Devotes itself primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of, and medical or surgical care for, 3 or more nonrelated individuals, designated "patients" in this chapter, suffering from illness, disease, injury or disability, whether physical or mental, or who are pregnant.3. Regularly makes available at least clinical laboratory services, diagnostic x-ray services and treatment facilities for surgery, obstetrical care or other definitive medical treatment, except as otherwise provided for critical access hospitals in this chapter.(b) "Hospital" may include, but is not limited to, related facilities such as outpatient facilities, nurses', interns' and residents' quarters, training facilities and central service facilities operated in connection with the hospital.(c) "Hospital" includes a special hospital.(9) "Licensed practical nurse" means a person licensed as a trained practical nurse under ch. 441, Stats.(10) "Medical staff" means the hospital's organized component of physicians, podiatrists, dentists, and other practitioners eligible to be on the medical staff pursuant to the medical staff bylaws who are granted specific clinical privileges for the purposes of providing adequate medical, podiatric, dental care or other health care services for the patients of the hospital.(10m) "Medicare" means the health insurance program operated by the U.S. department of health and human services under 42 USC 1395 to 1395 ccc and 42 CFR ch. IV, subch. B.(11) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy under ch. 448, Stats.(12) "Physician assistant" means a person certified under ch. 448, Stats., to perform patient services under the supervision and direction of a licensed physician.(13) "Podiatrist" means a person licensed to practice podiatry or podiatric medicine and surgery under ch. 448, Stats.(14) "Practitioners" means physicians, dentists, podiatrists or other professions permitted by Wisconsin law to distribute, dispense and administer medications in the course of professional practice, admit patients to a hospital, or provide any other health care service that is within that profession's scope of practice and for which the governing body grants clinical privileges.(19) "Registered nurse" means a person who is licensed as a registered nurse under ch. 441, Stats.(22) "Tissue" means a substance consisting of cells and intercellular material that is removed from a patient's body during a surgical procedure.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 124.02
Cr. Register, January, 1988, No. 385, eff. 2-1-88; correction in (3) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 6, Stats., Register, August, 1996, No. 488; emerg. cr. (1m), am. (6), (12 and (19), r. and recr. (21), eff. 9-12-98; cr. (1m) and (10m), am. (6), (12) and (19) and r. and recr. (21), Register, January, 1999, No. 517, eff. 2-1-99; correction in (3) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6, Stats., Register January 2009 No. 637.Amended by, CR 19-135: r. (1), (4), (7), (8), r. and recr. (10), (14), r. (15) to (18), (20), (21) Register June 2020 No. 774, eff. 7-1-20; correction in (14) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register June 2020 No. 774, eff. 7/1/2020