                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 37.2-403)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different
meaning:		&#8220;Brain injury&#8221; means any injury to the brain that occurs
after birth that is acquired through traumatic or non-traumatic insults.
Non-traumatic insults may include but are not limited to anoxia, hypoxia,
aneurysm, toxic exposure, encephalopathy, surgical interventions, tumor, and
stroke. &#8220;Brain injury&#8221; does not include hereditary, congenital, or
degenerative brain disorders, or injuries induced by birth
trauma.		&#8220;Conditional license&#8221; means a license issued in accordance
with the requirements of § 37.2-415 to a provider for a new service for a
period of time sufficient to allow the provider to demonstrate compliance with
regulations of the Board governing licensure of providers.		&#8220;Full
license&#8221; means a license issued in accordance with the requirements of §
37.2-404 to a provider who demonstrates full compliance with the regulations of
the Board governing licensure of providers.		&#8220;Provider&#8221; means any
person, entity, or organization, excluding an agency of the federal government
by whatever name or designation, that delivers (i) services to individuals with
mental illness, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse or (ii)
residential services for persons with brain injury. The person, entity, or
organization shall include a hospital as defined in § 32.1-123, community
services board, behavioral health authority, private provider, and any other
similar or related person, entity, or organization. It shall not include any
individual practitioner who holds a license issued by a health regulatory board
of the Department of Health Professions or who is exempt from licensing pursuant
to § 54.1-3501, 54.1-3601, or 54.1-3701.		&#8220;Provisional license&#8221;
means a license issued to a provider previously issued a full license that has
demonstrated a temporary inability to maintain compliance with licensing or
human rights regulations or that has failed to comply with a previous corrective
action plan, and that allows the provider to continue operating for a limited
time while addressing the inability or failure to comply with
regulations.		&#8220;Service or services&#8221; means:

1. Planned individualized interventions intended to reduce or ameliorate mental
illness, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse through care, treatment,
training, habilitation, or other supports that are delivered by a provider to
persons with mental illness, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse.
Services include outpatient services, intensive in-home services, opioid
treatment services, inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, community
gero-psychiatric residential services, assertive community treatment, and other
clinical services; day support, day treatment, partial hospitalization,
psychosocial rehabilitation, and habilitation services; case management
services; and supportive residential, special school, halfway house, in-home
services, crisis stabilization, and other residential services; and

2. Planned individualized interventions intended to reduce or ameliorate the
effects of brain injury through care, treatment, or other supports provided in
residential services for persons with brain injury.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 37-254; 1950, p. 935; 1960, c. 496; 1964, c. 54; 1968, c.
477, § 37.1-179; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 182; 1976, c. 671; 1977, cc. 89, 346;
1979, c. 54; 1980, c. 582; 2001, cc. 486, 506; 2002, c. 56; 2005, cc. 716, 718,
725; 2012, cc. 476, 507; 2014, c. 497; 2017, c. 458; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 3,
257.