Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 40, § 2009.2. Definitions

(1) “Department” shall mean the Louisiana Department of Health.

(2) “Health care facility” means any provider of health services which is approved to receive Medicaid payments or which is a licensed nursing home.

(3) “Nursing facility”, “nursing home”, or “home” means a private home, institution, building, residence, or other place serving two or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage to the operator, whether operated for profit or not, and including those places operated by a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana, which undertakes, through its ownership or management, to provide maintenance, personal care, or nursing for persons who, by reason of illness, physical infirmity, or age, are unable to properly care for themselves. The term does not include the following:

(4) “Office” means either the office of licensing and certification or the office of family services to which the complaint has been referred by the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.

(5) “Person” means a natural person or persons, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

Such regulations shall require that nursing homes for which plans are approved, constructed after January 1, 1978, shall comply with the applicable Life Safety Code, in accordance with such federal regulations promulgated pursuant of Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) as may be in force at the time the plans are approved.

(6) “Secretary” means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.

(7) “Unit” means the Medicaid fraud control unit created within the office of criminal law of the Department of Justice and which is certified by the secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare or its successor.