2005 Idaho Code - 39-1402 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 14
                              HEALTH FACILITIES
    39-1402.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this act:
    (a)  "Agency" means the department of health and welfare;
    (b)  "The federal act" shall mean, when applicable, either (1) Public Law
725 of the 79th Congress, approved August 13, 1946, entitled the Hospital
Survey and Construction Act and amendments thereto or (2) Mental Retardation
Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963,
Public Law 88-164, and amendments thereto or (3) Public Law 91-517 of the 91st
Congress, and amendments thereto;
    (c)  "The surgeon general" means the surgeon general of the public health
service of the United States;
    (d)  "Health facilities" shall mean any of the following:
    (1)  "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and
    operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less
    than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of two (2) or more nonrelated
    individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or
    requiring care because of old age, or a place devoted primarily to
    providing for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of
    obstetrical or other medical or nursing care for two (2) or more
    nonrelated individuals. The term hospital includes public health centers
    in general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease and other types of
    hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient
    departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service
    facilities operated in connection with hospitals;
    (2)  A facility for the provision of public health services, including
    related facilities such as laboratories, clinics, and administrative
    offices operated in connection with said facility;
    (3)  A facility specially designed for the diagnosis, treatment,
    education, training, or custodial care of the mentally retarded, including
    facilities for training specialists and sheltered workshops for the
    mentally retarded, but only if such workshops are part of facilities which
    provide or will provide comprehensive services for the mentally retarded;
    (4)  A facility providing services for the prevention or diagnosis of
    mental illness, or care and treatment of mentally ill patients, or
    rehabilitation of such persons, which services are provided principally
    for persons residing in a particular community or communities in or near
    which the facility is situated or at a statewide facility;
    (e)  "The secretary" means the secretary of health, education and welfare
of the United States, or his delegate to administer the federal act;
    (f)  "Nonprofit facility" means a facility which is owned and operated by
one (1) or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net
earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private
shareholder or individual.