Rational area definition

Rational area means a geographic area for the delivery of primary health care services. In determining a rational area, one of the following conditions must be met: a county or a group of contiguous counties whose population centers are within 30 minutes travel time of each other; a portion of a county whose population has limited access to a contiguous area's resources, as measured by travel time greater than 30 minutes; or established communities within a metropolitan statistical area that have limited interaction with contiguous areas, and have a maximum population of 20,000.
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Rational area means the geographic area surrounding a physician's office, a hospital or a clinic, from which the residents of the geographic area may be reasonably expected to seek health care from the physician, hospital or clinic located within that geographic area.
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Related to Rational area

  • operational area means the geographical area wherein an operational activity is to take place;

  • Basal area means the effective surface area available to transmit the treated effluent from the filter media in a mound system into the in-situ receiving soils. The perimeter is measured at the interface of the imported fill material and in-situ soil. On sloping sites, only the area down-gradient from the up-slope edge of the distribution media may be included in this calculation.

  • Recreational area means areas, excluding private single family residential areas, designated for active play, recreation or public assembly in parks, sports fields, picnic grounds, amphitheaters or golf course tees, fairways, roughs, surrounds and greens.

  • local area means the geographical area for which the Club is responsible as recognised by the regional and/or state organisations for Football of which the Club is a Member.

  • Designated operational area means a geographic area designated by the combatant commander or subordinate joint force commander for the conduct or support of specified military operations.