title: Ambulatory care services (HO).
abstract: This chapter is applicable to ambulatory care departments, services, or programs that comprise one or more organizational units, or components thereof, of the hospital--regardless of their location--that are under the responsibility of the governing body and through which nonemergency health care services are provided to patients who do not remain in the hospital overnight. The ambulatory care services covered by this chapter do not include individual diagnostic studies performed by the hospital as a service or those services performed by practitioners in their offices through a written agreement.
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards*; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States