§ 20-10-501 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

20-10-501. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Committees" means the House Interim Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Interim Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor or appropriate subcommittees thereof to whom the state agencies in the long-term care network will report the progress of this effort;

(2) "Long-term care and related community-based services" means preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and maintenance services available in the home and a variety of protected environments, including institutions, provided to persons, regardless of age, whose capabilities have been impaired by physical, mental, or emotional disability; and

(3) "State agencies" means the Department of Health and Human Services and any other state agency which administers funds for long-term care and related community-based services.