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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60864</law_id><section_number>37.2-403</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-57</reference><reference>19.2-389</reference><reference>2.2-309.1</reference><reference>32.1-102.1:3</reference><reference>32.1-276.3</reference><reference>32.1-373</reference><reference>38.2-2800</reference><reference>38.2-3412.1</reference><reference>4.1-1600</reference><reference>51.5-120</reference><reference>51.5-182</reference><reference>51.5-183</reference><reference>8.01-225.03</reference><reference>8.01-581.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="37.2">Behavioral Health and Developmental Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Protection of Consumers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Licensing Providers of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Brain injury</span>&#x201D; 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. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Brain injury</span>&#x201D; does not include hereditary, congenital, or degenerative brain disorders, or injuries induced by birth trauma.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Conditional license</span>&#x201D; means a license issued in accordance with the requirements of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Provisional and conditional licenses" href="/37.2-415/">37.2-415</a> to a <span class="dictionary">provider</span> for a new service for a period of time sufficient to allow the <span class="dictionary">provider</span> to demonstrate compliance with regulations of the Board governing licensure of <span class="dictionary">providers</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Full license</span>&#x201D; means a license issued in accordance with the requirements of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Authority of Commissioner to grant licenses" href="/37.2-404/">37.2-404</a> to a <span class="dictionary">provider</span> who demonstrates full compliance with the regulations of the Board governing licensure of <span class="dictionary">providers</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Provider</span>&#x201D; means any person, entity, or organization, excluding an agency of the federal government by whatever name or designation, that delivers (i) services to <span class="dictionary">individuals</span> with <span class="dictionary">mental illness</span>, developmental disabilities, or <span class="dictionary">substance abuse</span> or (ii) residential services for persons with <span class="dictionary">brain injury</span>. The person, entity, or organization shall include a hospital as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective January 1, 2026) Definitions" href="/32.1-123/">32.1-123</a>, <span class="dictionary">community services board</span>, <span class="dictionary">behavioral health authority</span>, private <span class="dictionary">provider</span>, and any other similar or related person, entity, or organization. It shall not include any <span class="dictionary">individual</span> practitioner who holds a license issued by a health regulatory board of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health Professions or who is exempt from licensing pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Exemption from requirements of licensure" href="/54.1-3501/">54.1-3501</a>, <a class="law" title="Exemption from requirements of licensure" href="/54.1-3601/">54.1-3601</a>, or <a class="law" title="Exemption from requirements of licensure" href="/54.1-3701/">54.1-3701</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Provisional license</span>&#x201D; means a license issued to a <span class="dictionary">provider</span> previously issued a <span class="dictionary">full license</span> 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 <span class="dictionary">provider</span> to continue operating for a limited time while addressing the inability or failure to comply with regulations.
		&#x201C;Service or services&#x201D; means:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Planned individualized interventions intended to reduce or ameliorate <span class="dictionary">mental illness</span>, developmental disabilities, or <span class="dictionary">substance abuse</span> through care, treatment, training, habilitation, or other supports that are delivered by a <span class="dictionary">provider</span> to persons with <span class="dictionary">mental illness</span>, developmental disabilities, or <span class="dictionary">substance abuse</span>. 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 <a id="paragraph-222515" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/37.2-403/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Planned individualized interventions intended to reduce or ameliorate the effects of <span class="dictionary">brain injury</span> through care, treatment, or other supports provided in residential services for persons with <span class="dictionary">brain injury</span>. <a id="paragraph-222516" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/37.2-403/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 37-254; 1950, p. 935; 1960, c. 496; 1964, c. 54; 1968, c. 477, &#xA7; 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.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
