New Mexico Statutes Chapter 24. Health and Safety § 24-37-2. Definitions

A. “affiliated with” means that a person is:

B. “campus” means:

C. “facility fee” means a fee charged or billed by a hospital or health system for outpatient hospital services that is:

D. “freestanding emergency department” means a facility licensed by the health care authority that is separate from an acute care hospital and that provides twenty-four-hour emergency care to patients at the same level of care that a hospital-based emergency department delivers;

E. “health facility” means a health facility or health agency required to be licensed by the health care authority pursuant to the Health Care Code;

F. “health system” means a:

G. “hospital” means a health facility that is licensed by the health care authority as a hospital;

H. “preventive health care service” means a service recommended by the United States preventive services task force;

I. “rural” means a rural county or an unincorporated area of a partially rural county, as designated by the health resources and services administration of the United States department of health and human services;  and

J. “telehealth” means the use of electronic information, imaging and communication technologies, including interactive audio, video, data communications and store-and-forward technologies, to provide and support health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data and education when distance separates the patient and the health care provider.