Extended Care Facility (ECF) definition

Extended Care Facility (ECF) means a facility licensed in accordance with COMAR 10.07.02 that offers sub-acute care, providing treatment services for patients requiring inpatient care but who do not currently require continuous acute care services, and admitting patients who require convalescent or restorative services, or rehabilitative services, or patients with terminal disease requiring maximal nursing care.

Related to Extended Care Facility (ECF)

  • Child care facility or “facility” means a child care center, a preschool, or a registered child development home.

  • Day care facility means a child care facility that includes a day care home, preschool, child care center, school-age program or other facility of a type determined by the secretary to require regulation under the provisions of K.S.A. 65-501 et seq., and amendments thereto.

  • Group care facility means an agency, other than a foster-family home, which is maintained and operated for the care of a group of children on a twenty-four hour basis;

  • Adult foster care facility means an adult foster care facility licensed under the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 to 400.737.

  • Long-term care facility means a nursing home, retirement care, mental care, or other facility or institution that provides extended health care to resident patients.