2018 Indiana Code
TITLE 16. Health
ARTICLE 18. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 2. Definitions
16-18-2-167. "Health facility"

     Sec. 167. (a) "Health facility":

(1) except for purposes of IC 16-28-15, means a building, a structure, an institution, or other place for the reception, accommodation, board, care, or treatment extending beyond a continuous twenty-four (24) hour period in a week of more than four (4) individuals who need or desire such services because of physical or mental illness, infirmity, or impairment; and

(2) for purposes of IC 16-28-15, has the meaning set forth in IC 16-28-15-3.

     (b) The term does not include the premises used for the reception, accommodation, board, care, or treatment in a household or family, for compensation, of a person related by blood to the head of the household or family (or to the spouse of the head of the household or family) within the degree of consanguinity of first cousins.

     (c) The term does not include any of the following:

(1) Hotels, motels, or mobile homes when used as such.

(2) Hospitals or mental hospitals, except for that part of a hospital that provides long term care services and functions as a health facility, in which case that part of the hospital is licensed under IC 16-21-2, but in all other respects is subject to IC 16-28.

(3) Hospices that furnish inpatient care and are licensed under IC 16-25-3.

(4) Institutions operated by the federal government.

(5) Foster family homes or day care centers.

(6) Schools for individuals who are deaf or blind.

(7) Day schools for individuals with an intellectual disability.

(8) Day care centers.

(9) Children's homes and child placement agencies.

(10) Offices of practitioners of the healing arts.

(11) Any institution in which health care services and private duty nursing services are provided that is listed and certified by the Commission for Accreditation of Christian Science Nursing Organizations/Facilities, Inc.

(12) Industrial clinics providing only emergency medical services or first aid for employees.

(13) A residential facility (as defined in IC 12-7-2-165).

(14) Maternity homes.

(15) Offices of Christian Science practitioners.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-4-2.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.61-1993, SEC.62; P.L.111-1996, SEC.2; P.L.58-2000, SEC.1; P.L.99-2007, SEC.153; P.L.229-2011, SEC.157; P.L.117-2015, SEC.32.