Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

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.

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