Unit of care definition

Unit of care means the patient and the patient’s family within a hospice program.
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Unit of care means the patient and the patient's family within a hospice program.
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Unit of care means the individual to receive hospice services; since the term "unit" means a single, whole thing, hospice defines the patient and family to be the single whole, regardless of the degree of harmony or integration of the parts within that whole.
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Related to Unit of care

  • Level of care means the range of available services provided from the most integrated setting to the most restrictive and most intensive in an inpatient setting.

  • Emergency Care means management for an illness or injury which results in symptoms which occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and requires immediate care by a medical practitioner to prevent death or serious long term impairment of the insured person’s health.

  • Respite care means care anticipated to be provided for a period of 28 days or less for the purpose of temporarily relieving a family member or other caregiver from his or her daily caregiv- ing duties.

  • Charity care means care provided by a health care

  • Personal care means the provision of hands-on services to assist an individual with activities of daily living.

  • Maintenance With respect to any Cooperative Unit, the rent paid by the Mortgagor to the Cooperative Corporation pursuant to the Proprietary Lease.

  • Palliative care means medical service rendered to reduce or moderate temporarily the intensity of an otherwise stable medical condition, but does not include those medical services ren- dered to diagnose, heal or permanently alleviate or eliminate a medical condition.

  • Preventive Care means certain Preventive Care services.

  • Primary care giver" means a person who assumes the principal role of providing care and attention to a child.

  • Maintenance Services means SAP’s then-current maintenance and/or support services offered under and described in detail in the applicable SAP PartnerEdge Model.