Abortion reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Accounting and bookkeeping
Accounting period
Changes, reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0112, 4650.0113
Defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Budget year, Minn. Rules 4650.0112
Accreditation, see Taxes, fees, and assessments under this topic
Additions, working drawings and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Administrators, appointment and change by governing bodies, Minn. Rules 4640.0700
Admissions
Chest x-rays, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Costs, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Records, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Admissions certification (public assistance)
Appeals, Minn. Rules 9505.0545
Definitions, Minn. Rules 9505.0505
Exclusions, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Medical records, review, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Medically necessary, Minn. Rules 9505.0505, 9505.0530
Payments, adjustments, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Physicians, duties, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Procedures, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Qualified staff, Minn. Rules 9505.0515
Readmissions criteria, Minn. Rules 9505.0540
Reconsideration of decision, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Requirements, generally, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Scope of rules, Minn. Rules 9505.0501
Adult day care, generally, Minn. Rules 9555.9600 to 9555.9730
Advertising, costs, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Affiliated clinics, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4650.0113, 4650.0138
Air conditioning, see AIR CONDITIONING
Alcoholic beverages, permits, expiration dates, Minn. Rules 7515.0220
Annual reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Architectural drawings, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Assessments, generally, see Taxes, fees, and assessments under this topic
Attorney fees, malpractice actions, defined as malpractice expenses, hospital and surgical reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Automated drug counting and dispensing systems, Minn. Rules 6800.2600
Automated medication management systems, Minn. Rules 6800.3100
Auxiliary workers, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Average length of stay, records, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Babies, see Infants under this topic
Bad debts
Charity care, exclusion, Minn. Rules 4650.0115
Classification, Minn. Rules 4650.0117
Costs, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Base hospitals (ambulance services), ambulance service license applications, Minn. Rules 4690.0200
Beds and bedding, available beds, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Benefits, resident salaries and benefits, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Bill of rights, veterans facilities, complying with, Minn. Rules 9050.0030
Billing, rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Birth and death records
Duties regarding, see Institutions under BIRTH AND DEATH RECORDS
Reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Births register, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Boarding of infants, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Boiler rooms, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Building conversions, Minn. Rules 4640.0600
Building permits, see BUILDING PERMITS
Business day, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Calls, nurses and emergency calls, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Cancer surveillance system, Minn. Rules 4606.3300 to 4606.3309
Capitol area
Parking areas, spaces, number, Minn. Rules 2400.2820
Use districts, Minn. Rules 2400.2205
Cats, pets in facilities, Minn. Rules 4638.0200
Certificates and certification, see Taxes, fees, and assessments under this topic
Charges, rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Charity care
Classification, Minn. Rules 4650.0115, 4650.0117
Exclusions, Minn. Rules 4650.0115
Policies, Minn. Rules 4650.0112, 4650.0115
Public funding for operations, exclusion, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Chest x-rays, admissions of patients, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Child labor, Minn. Rules 5200.0920
Child welfare reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Children, see Infants under this topic
Children placement, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Community programs, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Complaints of patients, Minn. Rules 4680.0100 to 4680.1300
Compliance
Approved plans of construction, Minn. Rules 4645.5800
Rules, Minn. Rules 4640.0300
Construction
Defined, Minn. Rules 4645.0200
Plans and specifications, see same under this topic
State Building Code, administration and enforcement, contracts, Minn. Rules 1302.0850
Conversion of nonhospital buildings, Minn. Rules 4640.0600
Costs
Nonoperating expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Operating expenses, see same under this topic
Patients, costs to, rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Crime victims, hospital expenses, payment, Minn. Rules 3050.3700
Crowded conditions, alleviation, Minn. Rules 4640.0500
Data
Health care quality measures, see Health care quality measures under HEALTH CARE
Hospital voluntary, nonprofit reporting organizations, reporting, processing, and transmission, Minn. Rules 4650.0156, 4650.0158
Deaths register, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Definitions
Clean indoor air, Minn. Rules 4620.0100
Comprehensive health insurance plans, Minn. Rules 2740.0100
Construction (structures) approvals, Minn. Rules 1302.0400
Home care and hospice service, Minn. Rules 4664.0003
Hospital and surgical center reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments), Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Licensing and operation, Minn. Rules 4640.0100
Delayed construction, Minn. Rules 4645.5900
Design, plans and specifications, see Plans and specifications under this topic
Dietary departments
Definitions, food code, Minn. Rules 4626.0020
Food establishments, Minn. Rules 4626.0020
Discharge records, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Disease reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7030
Dogs, pets in facilities, Minn. Rules 4638.0200
Drainage, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Drugs and medicine, medicinal alcohol or ethyl alcohol purchases, permits, Minn. Rules 7515.0220
Dumbwaiters, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Electrical drawings, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Elevators
Plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Emergency calls
Medical staff availability, Minn. Rules 4640.0800
Plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Emergency lighting, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Emergency services
Admissions, see same under this topic
Generally, see EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Employees
Full-time equivalent employees (FTE), see same under this topic
Full-time equivalent residents, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Medical records custodians, Minn. Rules 4640.1000
Medical staff, Minn. Rules 4640.0800
Nurses, see NURSES
Personnel, licensing requirements, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Physicians and surgeons
Full-time equivalent residents, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Generally, see PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Equipment and supplies
Construction, Minn. Rules 4645.0200 to 4645.6000
Costs, see Operating expenses under this topic
Expansion, alleviation of overcrowding, Minn. Rules 4640.0500
Expenses, see Costs under this topic
Federal regulations
Incorporation by reference, Minn. Rules 4650.0104
Reports, compliance, Minn. Rules 4650.0111, 4650.0112
Final working drawings and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Financial, services, and utilization reports
Affiliates, Minn. Rules 4650.0113, 4650.0138
Aggregate reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0139
Alternative practices, Minn. Rules 4650.0139
Amended reports, Minn. Rules 4650.0141
Audited annual financial statements, Minn. Rules 4650.0110
Bad debts, Minn. Rules 4650.0115, 4650.0117
Charity care, Minn. Rules 4650.0115, 4650.0117
Compliance violations, fines, Minn. Rules 4650.0173, 4650.0174
Definitions, Minn. Rules 4650.0102, 4650.0150
Errors and corrections, Minn. Rules 4650.0150
Federal regulations, Minn. Rules 4650.0111, 4650.0112
Fees, Minn. Rules 4650.0158, 4650.0166, 4650.0167
Forms, Minn. Rules 4650.0130
Health Department, powers, Minn. Rules 4650.0141
Hospital voluntary, nonprofit reporting organizations,, Minn. Rules 4650.0130, 4650.0150, 4650.0154 to 4650.0160
Inspections, Minn. Rules 4650.0158
Multiple facilities operated by one organization, Minn. Rules 4650.0138
Reporting costs, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Reporting year, Minn. Rules 4650.0112
Requirements, Minn. Rules 4650.0104, 4650.0111 to 4650.0115
Review, Minn. Rules 4650.0150
Scope of rules, Minn. Rules 4650.0104
Submitting, Minn. Rules 4650.0130, 4650.0150, 4650.0158
Variances, Minn. Rules 4650.0139
Fines, defined as taxes, fees, and assessments, hospital and surgical center reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Fire alarm systems, Minn. Rules 7511.0907
Fire alarms
Building code amendments, Minn. Rules 1305.0907
Plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Fire protection, Minn. Rules 4645.6000
Floors, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Food
Prepared food, sales and use taxes, Minn. Rules 8130.5700
Sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Rules 8130.4700
Food preparation and service facilities, see Dietary departments under this topic
Food service operations, Minn. Rules 4626.0020
Foundations, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Full-time equivalent employees (FTE), Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Funding
Nonoperating public funding, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Private funding for operations, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Public funding for operations, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Garbage, disposal systems, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5600
General assistance, inpatient payment system, Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
Gifts to, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Governing bodies, Minn. Rules 4640.0700
Grants to, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Grievance mechanism, Minn. Rules 4680.0100 to 4680.1300
Gross revenues from patient care, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Health care quality measures, see Health care quality measures under HEALTH CARE
Health of employees, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Heating and cooling systems, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
High radiation areas, access control, exceptions, Minn. Rules 4731.2220
Hospices, see HOSPICES
Hospital administrators, appointment and change by governing bodies, Minn. Rules 4640.0700
Hospital cost index, inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments), Minn. Rules 9500.1100, 9500.1120
Hospital voluntary, nonprofit reporting organizations
Applications, review, Minn. Rules 4650.0160
Approval, Minn. Rules 4650.0154 to 4650.0160
Data collection, Minn. Rules 4650.0156, 4650.0158
Defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Fees, Minn. Rules 4650.0158
Illegitimate birth reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Incinerators, mercury emission standards, Minn. Rules 7011.1292
Incorporation by reference, federal regulations, Minn. Rules 4650.0104
Infants
Boarding, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Placement, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Infectious waste management, see INFECTIOUS WASTE
Inpatient facilities, definitions, home care and hospice service, Minn. Rules 4664.0003
Inpatient hospital services, see INPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES
Inspections
Pharmacists and pharmacies, Minn. Rules 6800.7400
State building official, duties, Minn. Rules 1302.0500
Investigation of need for hospitals, Minn. Rules 4640.0400
Ionizing radiation, see IONIZING RADIATION
Kitchens, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Laboratories, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Laundries, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Leases, see Operating expenses under this topic
Licenses
Fire marshal approval, Minn. Rules 4645.6000
Generally, Minn. Rules 4640.0200
Hospitals with segregated units for specialized care, Minn. Rules 4640.0100
Radioactive materials, see Licenses under RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Lighting, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Local trade area hospitals
Defined, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments),, Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
Location, Minn. Rules 4645.0200
Long-term care hospitals
Defined, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments),, Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
Maintenance and repair, see Operating expenses under this topic
Malpractice, expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Management information systems (MIS), expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Marketing, see Operating expenses under this topic
Meals, see Dietary departments under this topic
Mechanical drawings, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Medical assistance, participation, Minn. Rules 9505.0300
Medical care surcharge
Amount, Minn. Rules 9510.2020
Appeals, Minn. Rules 9510.2040
Civil penalties for nonpayment, Minn. Rules 9510.2050
Defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Definitions, Minn. Rules 9510.2010
Effective date, Minn. Rules 9510.2020
Enforcement, Minn. Rules 9510.2050
Notice of amount owed, Minn. Rules 9510.2030
Ownership changes, Minn. Rules 9510.2020
Purpose of rules, Minn. Rules 9510.2000
Scope of rules, Minn. Rules 9510.2000
Medical records, Minn. Rules 4640.1000
Medical staffs, Minn. Rules 4640.0800
Mental hospitals, see MENTAL AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Metropolitan statistical area hospitals
Defined, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments),, Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
MinnesotaCare tax, definitions, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Monthly reports, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Municipal lockup detainees, treatment of, Minn. Rules 2945.5420
Narcotic records and permits, Minn. Rules 4640.1200
Neonatal transfers
Diagnostic categories, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments), determinations, Minn. Rules 9500.1116, 9500.1124
Neurosurgical centers, Minn. Rules 9515.0200, 9515.0450
Noise, Minn. Rules 7030.0050
Nonmetropolitan statistical area hospitals
Defined, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments),, Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
Nonoperating donations and grants, definitions, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Nonoperating expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Nonoperating public funding, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Nonoperating revenue, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Notice received
Hospital admissions certification (public assistance), reconsideration decisions, Minn. Rules 9505.0520
Infant medical neglect, Minn. Rules 9560.0218
Patients grievance mechanism, Minn. Rules 4680.0100 to 4680.1300
Nurses
Calls, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Responsibilities, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Obstetrical nurses, limitations on services, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Occupancy rates, excessively high, alleviation, Minn. Rules 4640.0500
Oil, set-aside program, evaluation criteria, Minn. Rules 7615.0310
Operating expenses
Generally, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Medical care surcharge, see same under this topic
Reporting, Medicare cost reports, Minn. Rules 4650.0104, 4650.0111
Operating revenue, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Operations or surgery register, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Out-of-area hospitals
Defined, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments), Minn. Rules 9500.1090 to 9500.1140
Outpatient registration, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Outpatients register, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Overcrowding, alleviation, Minn. Rules 4640.0500
Parking facilities, disability access, Minn. Rules 1341.0403
Patient days records, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Patient medical records, Minn. Rules 4640.1000
Patient services
Charity care, see same under this topic
Cost to hospitals, see Operating expenses under this topic
Cost to patients, rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Emergency medical services, see EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Revenue, see same under this topic
Patients
Admissions, see same under this topic
Hospice patients, short-term inpatient care, Minn. Rules 4664.0330
Outpatient registration, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Services for, see Patient services under this topic
Patients grievance mechanism
Applicability of rules, Minn. Rules 4680.0200
Complaints, Minn. Rules 4680.0500, 4680.1000
Definitions, Minn. Rules 4680.0100
Fines, Minn. Rules 4680.1200, 4680.1300
Generally, Minn. Rules 4680.0100 to 4680.1300
Minimum standards, Minn. Rules 4680.0300
Notice
Existence and availability of system, Minn. Rules 4680.0900
Violations, fines, Minn. Rules 4680.1200
Patients bill of rights, notice, Minn. Rules 4680.0900
Person operating system, Minn. Rules 4680.0400
Persons authorized to receive complaints, Minn. Rules 4680.0400
Records, complaints, Minn. Rules 4680.0800
Reports, Minn. Rules 4680.1100
Time for response, Minn. Rules 4680.0600, 4680.0700
Veterans facilities, complying with, Minn. Rules 9050.0030
Permits, narcotics purchases, Minn. Rules 4640.1200
Personnel, see Employees under this topic
Pets, permitted on premises, Minn. Rules 4638.0200
Pharmacies in, patient consultation, exception, Minn. Rules 6800.0910
Pharmacists and pharmacies, Minn. Rules 6800.0100 to 6800.9954
Physicians and surgeons
Call and in-and-out systems, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Medical staff, Minn. Rules 4640.0800
Responsibility for medical records, Minn. Rules 4640.1000
Piping, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Placement of children, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Planning, Minn. Rules 4640.0400
Plans and specifications
Changes in plans, approval, Minn. Rules 4645.5800
Compliance with approved plans, Minn. Rules 4645.5800
Fire marshal approval, Minn. Rules 4645.6000
Generally, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Preliminary plans, Minn. Rules 4645.5300
Preparation and certification by registered engineers or architects, Minn. Rules 4645.5700
Resubmission, construction commenced one year or more after approval, Minn. Rules 4645.5900
Specifications supplementing drawings, Minn. Rules 4645.5500
Water supply, Minn. Rules 4645.5600
Plant, equipment, and occupancy expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Plumbing, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Practical nurses, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Preliminary plans, Minn. Rules 4645.5300
Preparation of plans and specifications by registered architects or engineers, Minn. Rules 4645.5700
Prices, rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Private donations and grants for operations, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Professional care, medical staff responsibilities, Minn. Rules 4640.0800
Promotion, costs, see Operating expenses under this topic
Property taxes, see Taxes, fees, and assessments under this topic
Psychiatric hospitals, see MENTAL AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Public funding for operations, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Public information and education programs, costs, definitions, hospital and surgical center reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Public places, hospitals defined as, clean indoor air, Minn. Rules 4620.0100
Quality assurance and utilization management program or activity expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Radiation hazard caution signs, Minn. Rules 4731.2320
Radiation-producing equipment, see RADIATION-PRODUCING EQUIPMENT
Radioactive materials
Generally, see RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Nuclear medicine, see NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Rates, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Records
Complaints by patients, grievance mechanism, Minn. Rules 4680.0800
Medical records, Minn. Rules 4640.1000
Narcotics, Minn. Rules 4640.1200
Personnel records, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Requirements, generally, Minn. Rules 4640.1100
Regulatory and compliance reporting expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Rehabilitation hospitals, diagnostic categories, Minn. Rules 9500.1100
Rents, see Operating expenses under this topic
Reports given
Audited annual financial statements, Minn. Rules 4650.0110
Births in hospital, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Deaths in hospital, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Disciplinary action, Minn. Rules 6321.0500
Grievances, Minn. Rules 4680.1100
Illegitimate births, Minn. Rules 4640.1400
Medicare cost reports, Minn. Rules 4650.0104, 4650.0111
Patient service data, Minn. Rules 4640.1300
Vital statistics, see Institutions under BIRTH AND DEATH RECORDS
Research, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Research expenses, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Residents (physicians), full-time equivalent residents, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Revenue, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Rights of patients, Minn. Rules 4680.0100 to 4680.1300
Roofs
Drainage, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Rooms, radiation hazard caution signs, Minn. Rules 4731.2320
Rural hospital planning and transition grant program, defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Sales and use taxes
Exemptions, Minn. Rules 8130.6200
Prepared food, candy, and soft drinks, Minn. Rules 8130.5700
Services, see Patient services under this topic
Set-up beds, see Beds and bedding under this topic
Sewage disposal, Minn. Rules 4645.5600
Sites, selection, Minn. Rules 4645.0200
Sleeping rooms, smoke detectors, building code amendments, Minn. Rules 1305.0907
Smoking regulations, generally, see Public places under SMOKING
Soft drinks, sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Rules 8130.4700
Special education
Early childhood intervention, Minn. Rules 3525.1351, 3525.2335, 3525.2340
Infant and toddler intervention, Minn. Rules 3525.1350
Residential facilities and programs, see under SPECIAL EDUCATION
Specialized hospitals
Accounting and bookkeeping, see same under this topic
Defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Psychiatric hospitals, see MENTAL AND PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Specifications, see Plans and specifications under this topic
Spinal cord injury registry, see under PERSONAL INJURIES
Standpipe and sprinkler systems, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
State Building Code, classification, Minn. Rules 1305.0302
State hospitals, see REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTERS
State licensed facilities, hospitals defined as, construction (structures) approvals, Minn. Rules 1302.0400
Structural drawings, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Submission of plans before construction, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Surcharges
Financial statements, annual reporting, Minn. Rules 4650.0112
Medical care surcharge, see same under this topic
Taxes, fees, and assessments
Costs, see same under this topic
Defined, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
MinnesotaCare tax, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Property taxes, generally, see PROPERTY TAXES
Tax liability, health care gross revenues taxes, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Telephones, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Tests and testing, radioactive materials, in vitro clinical or laboratory testing, Minn. Rules 4731.3245
Toilets and toilet facilities, disability access, Minn. Rules 1341.0610
Transfers
Inpatient hospital payment system (assistance payments), limitation, Minn. Rules 9500.1129
Neonatal transfers, see same under this topic
Traumatic brain injury registry, Minn. Rules 4643.0010 to 4643.0040
Utilization, review, costs, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Ventilation, plans and specifications, Minn. Rules 4645.5400
Volunteers, generally, Minn. Rules 4640.0900
Wellness education, Minn. Rules 4650.0102
Workplace accident and injury reduction, compliance, Minn. Rules 5208.1500
X-rays, regulations on use, see IONIZING RADIATION