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- Alaska Statutes.
- Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender
- Chapter 20. Hospitals and Nursing Facilities
- Section 210. Definitions.
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Section 220. Short Title.
AS 18.20.210. Definitions.
In AS 18.20.140
- 18.20.220,
(1) "community mental health center" means a facility providing services for the prevention or diagnosis of mental
illness, or care and treatment of mentally ill patients, or rehabilitation of mentally ill persons, which services are
provided principally for persons residing in a particular community or communities in or near which the facility is
situated;
(2) "department" means the Department of Health;
(3) "facility for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities" means a facility specially designed for the diagnosis,
treatment, education, training, or custodial care of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including facilities for
training specialists and sheltered workshops for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but only if the workshops are
part of facilities that provide or will provide comprehensive services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;
(4) "federal act" means Title VI of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 291 et seq.) concerning hospitals and medical facilities
and the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-164) concerning facilities for
persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and community mental health centers, both as now or hereafter amended;
(5) "hospital" includes a public health center and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other type of
hospital, and related facilities, including laboratory, outpatient department, nurses' homes, and training facilities,
and central services facilities operated in connection with a hospital, but does not include a hospital furnishing
primarily domiciliary care;
(6) "medical facilities" means diagnostic and treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes, as those
terms are defined in the federal act, and other medical facilities for which federal aid may be authorized under the
federal act;
(7) "nonprofit facility for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities" and "nonprofit community mental
health center" mean, respectively, a facility for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and a community mental
health center that is owned and operated by one 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; and the term "nonprofit private agency or
organization" means an agency or organization that is such a corporation or association or that is owned and operated by one or more
of such corporations or associations;
(8) "nonprofit hospital" and "nonprofit medical facility" mean a hospital or medical facility owned and operated by a
nonprofit corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the
benefit of a private shareholder or individual;
(9) "public health center" means a publicly owned facility providing public health services, including related facilities
such as laboratory, clinic, and administrative offices operated in connection with the public health center;
(10) "surgeon general" means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service or any other federal agency designated to
administer the federal act.
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