Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 7. REGULATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE FACILITIES · Article 10. PATIENT CENTERED AND FAMILY FOCUSED PALLIATIVE CARE

31-7-191. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

As used in this article, the term:
(1)
“Department” means the Department of Community Health.#
(2)
“Healthcare facility” means hospitals; other special care units, including but not limited to podiatric facilities; skilled nursing facilities; intermediate care facilities; assisted living communities; personal care homes; ambulatory surgical or obstetrical facilities; health maintenance organizations; home health agencies; and diagnostic, treatment, or rehabilitation centers.#
(3)
“Palliative care” means those interventions which are intended to alleviate suffering and to achieve relief from, reduction of, or elimination of pain and of other physical, emotional, social, or spiritual symptoms of distress to achieve the best quality of life for the patients and their families.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-7-191, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 155, § 1/HB 509; Ga. L. 2025, p. 332, § 7-1/SB 96, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, deleted former paragraphs (1) and (3), which read: “(1) ‘Commissioner’ means the commissioner of community health.” and “(3) ‘Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council’ or ‘council’ means the advisory council created pursuant to Code Section 31-7-192.”; redesignated former paragraphs (2), (4), and (5) as present paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively; and, in paragraph (2), substituted “Healthcare facility” for “Health care facility”.

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