Maine Revised Statutes Title 22. Health and Welfare § 8752. Definitions

1. Division. “Division” means the department's division of licensing and certification.

2. Health care facility. “Health care facility” or “facility” means a general or specialty hospital including all facilities under the hospital's license, an ambulatory surgical facility, an end-stage renal disease facility and a state institution as defined under Title 34-B, chapter 1, except that it does not include a facility licensed as a nursing facility or licensed under chapter 1664.

2. Health care facility. “Health care facility” or “facility” means a general or specialty hospital including all facilities under the hospital's license, an ambulatory surgical facility, an end-stage renal disease facility and a state institution as defined under Title 34-B, chapter 1, except that it does not include a facility licensed as a nursing facility or licensed under chapter 1664.

2-A. Immediate jeopardy. “Immediate jeopardy” means a situation in which the provider's noncompliance with one or more conditions of participation in the federal Medicare program has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm or impairment to or death of a patient.

3. Major permanent loss of function. “Major permanent loss of function” means sensory, motor, physiological or intellectual impairment that was not present at the time of admission and requires continued treatment or imposes persistent major restrictions in activities of daily living.

3-A. Repealed. Laws 2025, c. 305, § B-3, eff. Sept. 24, 2025.

3-B. Root cause analysis. “Root cause analysis” means a structured process for identifying the causal or contributing factors underlying adverse events. The root cause analysis follows a predefined protocol for identifying these specific factors in causal categories.

4. Deleted.Laws 2009, c. 358, § 1.

4-A. Sentinel event. “Sentinel event” means: