GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 182
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 131E-165(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) The purpose of this
Article is to provide for the development, establishment, and enforcement of basic
rules and certification:
(1) For the care and
treatment of individuals in out-of-hospital outpatient cardiac
rehabilitation programs; and
(2) For the maintenance and operation of cardiac rehabilitation programs to ensure safe and adequate treatment of individuals in cardiac rehabilitation programs."
Sec. 2. G.S. 131E-166(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1) 'Cardiac
Rehabilitation Program' means a program certified under this Article for the
delivery of cardiac rehabilitation services to clients in environments other
than hospitals outpatients and includes, but shall not be limited
to, coordinated, physician- directed, individualized programs of therapeutic
activity and adaption designed to assist the cardiac patient in attaining the
highest rehabilitative potential."
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives