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Adult Day Care Centers provide therapeutic programs of social and health services and activities for adults in a non-institutional setting. Participants may use the services offered daily, for periods less than a 24-hour. 

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 An Assisted Living Facility provides personal care services in the least restrictive and most home-like environment.  ALFs can range in size from one resident to several hundreds and may offer a wide variety of personal and nursing services designed specifically to meet and individual's personal needs. An ALF is any building or buildings, section or distinct part of a building, private home, boarding home, home for the aged, or other residential facility, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes to provide housing, meals and one or more personal services for a period exceeding 24 hours to one or more adults who are not relatives of the owner or administrator. Click here for a free startup guide to help you.

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In Florida a health care clinic means any entity at which health care services are provided to individuals and which tenders charges for reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic and portable equipment provider. Hospitals and some other facilities are excluded.   

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Florida Statutes, §§ 400.692(12) states: "Home Health Agency" means an organization that provides home health services and staffing services. Home health services are health and medical services and medical supplies furnished by an organization to an individual in his or her home or place of residence.  

A Home Health Agency can be "non-skilled" which means it does not provide nursing or therapy services. It can be "skilled/accredited" which means that it usually provides skilled nursing and therapy services. It can be Medicare/Medicaid Certified; which means that it is accredited to provide skilled nursing and therapy services and can provide those services to Medicare/Medicaid patients and can bill Medicare/Medicaid for providing the services.

Home medical equipment includes any product as defined by the Federal Drug Administration's Drugs, Devices and Cosmetic Act; any product reimbursed under the Medicare Part B Durable Medical Equipment benefits; or any product reimbursed under the Florida Medicaid durable medical equipment program. Home medical equipment includes oxygen and related respiratory equipment, manual, motorized, or customized wheelchair and related seating and positioning devices, but does not include prosthetics or orthotics or any splints, braces, or aids custom fabricated by a licensed health care practitioner; it includes motorized scooters; personal transfer systems; and specialty beds, for use by a person with a medical need.  

A Hospice is a centrally administered corporation or a limited liability company that provides a continuum of palliative and supportive care for the terminally ill patient and his or her family. Palliative care is a set of services or interventions which are not curative but are provided for the reduction or abatement of pain and human suffering. The care is provided by a hospice care team which is an interdisciplinary team of qualified professionals and volunteers who, in consultation with the patient, the patient’s family, and the patient’s primary or attending physician, collectively assess, coordinate, and provide the appropriate palliative and supportive care to hospice patients and their families. The care is provided in a hospice residential unit which is a homelike living facility that is operated by a hospice for the benefit of its patients and is considered by a patient who lives there to be his or her primary residence. In summary, hospice services mean items and services furnished to a patient and family by a hospice, or by others under arrangements with such a program, in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the patient’s home for the purpose of maintaining the patient at home; or, if the patient needs short-term institutionalization, the services shall be furnished in cooperation with those contracted institutions or in the hospice inpatient facility.

An intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled means a residential facility licensed and certified in accordance state law, and certified by the Federal Government, pursuant to the Social Security Act, as a provider of Medicaid services to personas with developmental disabilities.    

A prescribe pediatric extended care center (a PPEC center) is any building or buildings, or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide basic nonresidential services to three or more medically dependent or technologically dependent children who are not related to the owner or operator by blood, marriage or adoption and who require such services. Infants and children considered for admission to a PPEC center must have complex medical condition that require continual care. Prerequisite for admission are a prescription from the child's attending physicians and consent of a parent or guardian. Click here for a free startup guide.

 F.S. § 400.462(21) states that a nurse registry means any person that procures, offers, promises, or attempts to secure health-care-related contracts for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions or homemakers, who are compensated by fees as independent contractors, including, but not limited to, contracts to provide private duty or staffing services to health care facilities licensed under chapter 395, this chapter, or chapter 429 or other business entities. 

A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facilities, seniors’ homes, rest homes, convalescent homes or convalescent care. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the homes are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living or nursing care and emergency medical care.

Nursing homes are used by people who do not need to be in a hospital, but cannot be cared for at home. The nursing home facility nurses have the responsibilities of caring for the patients’ medical needs and also the responsibility of being in charge of other employees, depending on their ranks. Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day.