Section 443.850 - Definitions for ORS 443.850 to 443.869As used in ORS 443.850 to 443.869:
(1) "Hospice program" means a coordinated program of home and inpatient care, available 24 hours a day, that utilizes an interdisciplinary team of personnel trained to provide palliative and supportive services to a patient-family unit experiencing a life threatening disease with a limited prognosis. A hospice program is an institution for purposes of ORS 146.100.(2) "Hospice services" means items and services provided to a patient-family unit by a hospice program or by other individuals or community agencies under a consulting or contractual arrangement with a hospice program. Hospice services include acute, respite, home care and bereavement services provided to meet the physical, psychosocial, spiritual and other special needs of a patient-family unit during the final stages of illness, dying and the bereavement period.(3) "Interdisciplinary team" means a group of individuals working together in a coordinated manner to provide hospice care. An interdisciplinary team includes, but is not limited to, the patient-family unit, the patient's attending physician or clinician and one or more of the following hospice program personnel:(f) Occupational therapist.(h) Trained lay volunteer.(i) Clergy or spiritual counselor.(j) Credentialed mental health professional such as psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse or social worker.(k) Naturopathic physician.(4) "Patient-family unit" includes an individual who has a life threatening disease with a limited prognosis and all others sharing housing, common ancestry or a common personal commitment with the individual.(5) "Person" includes individuals, organizations and groups of organizations.Amended by 2024 Ch. 73,§ 95, eff. 6/6/2024.Amended by 2017 Ch. 356, § 73, eff. 1/1/2018.Amended by 2014 Ch. 45, § 63, eff. 7/1/2014.1987 c.398 §1; 1989 c.697 §3; 2007 c. 474, § 1; 2009 c. 793, § 6