                                 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.