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Please provide any definition changes to the LCC working definitions in the "suggested definitions" column. The ToC definitions are provided for your reference. Please make sure that if you provide a new definition or suggest edits to the old one that you provide your name so we can address these comments in our meeting next Monday, May 7. Thank you for your help!======

Hospitals (including short-term acute care hospitals and specialty hospitals (e.g., long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and psychiatric hospitals)), Ambulatory Centers, Provider Practices, Nursing Facilities, Home and Community-Based Service Providers (e.g., Home Health Agencies, Hospice, Adult Day Care Centers, etc. ), and human and social service providers (e.g., transportation). ||
 * **Member of Communities of Interest** || **LCC Working Definition** || **ToC Working Defintion** || **Suggested Definitions** ||
 * Caregiver || A person designated by the patient who provides physical, emotional, and/or financial support to a patient through activities are encouraged, guided, or informed by the patients Home Health Plan of Care. ||  || A caregiver is an individual who has been authorized by the patient to receive PHI that is used to inform the type, methods, and frequency of care activities provided in the home in keeping with the patient's wishes and/or directions. Typically focused on helping the patient carry out ADLs and IADLs, the caregiver can also include assisting the patient carry out medication self-administration and/or treatments intended to help heal or palliate health condition(s) and convey information about the patients response to the Plan of Care to the patient and/or providers. ||
 * Clinician || Healthcare providers with patient care responsibilities, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, therapists, and other licensed and credentialed personnel involved in treating patients.Includes an individual clinician in a care delivery setting who requests, submits or accepts the transfer of the clinical summary for the purposes of delivering care. || Healthcare providers with patient care responsibilities, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and other licensed and credentialed personnel involved in treating patients. || Healthcare providers with patient care responsibilities, including physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and other licensed and credentialed personnel involved in treating patients. ||
 * Provider || Includes a wide array of individual providers and provider organizations that are engaged in or support the delivery of health and human services. Includes but is not limited to Hospitals (including short-term acute care hospitals and specialty hospitals (e.g., long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and psychiatric hospitals)), Ambulatory Centers, Provider Practices, Nursing Facilities, Home and Community-Based Service Providers (e.g., Home Health Agencies, Hospice, Adult Day Care Centers, etc. ), and human and social service providers (e.g., transportation). || An individual clinician in a care delivery setting who requests, submits or accepts the transfer of the clinical summary for the purposes of delivering care. || A licensed/ credentialed person (e.g. clinician, etc...) who provides health and/ or human services. ||
 * Provider Organizations || Organizations that: are either vertically and/or horizontally integrated configurations of providers, typically sharing a common governance body, and are engaged in or support the payment, delivery, and/or management of healthcare and/or long-term care services. Examples of such organizations include: IDNs, ACOs, PCMH, etc… || Organizations that are engaged in or support the delivery of healthcare to include Hospitals, Ambulatory Centers and Provider Practices. || Organizations that are engaged in or support the delivery of healthcare including, but not limited to,
 * Provider Designation ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The term "home health agency" means a home care agency which is certified to receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for providing nursing care, therapy, medical social services, and home health aide services on a part-time, intermittent basis. We should also insert {Private Duty Home Care}; Private Duty home care organizations provide broad range of services from medical and nursing care to bill paying and transportation services. (Rich Brennan, 5/7) ||

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