                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 15.2-5201)

As used in this chapter:
		&#8220;Bond&#8221; includes any interest-bearing obligation, including
promissory notes.
		&#8220;Hospital or health center&#8221; means any and all medical facilities
and approaches thereto and appurtenances thereof. Medical facilities shall
include any and all facilities suitable for providing hospital and medical care,
including any and all structures, buildings, improvements, additions,
extensions, replacements, appurtenances, lands, rights in lands, franchises,
machinery, equipment, furnishing, landscaping, approaches, roadways and other
facilities necessary or desirable in connection therewith or incidental thereto
(including, without limitation, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living
facilities, continuing care facilities, self-care facilities, medical office
facilities, clinics, out-patient surgical centers, alcohol, substance abuse and
drug treatment centers, laboratories, research facilities, sanitariums,
hospices, facilities for the residence or care of elderly or chronically ill
individuals or individuals with disabilities, residential facilities for nurses,
interns, and physicians and any other kind of facility for the diagnosis,
treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, or palliation of any human illness,
injury, disorder, or disability), together with all related and supporting
facilities and equipment necessary and desirable in connection therewith or
incidental thereto, or equipment alone, including, without limitation, kitchen,
laundry, laboratory, pharmaceutical, administrative, communications, computer
and recreational facilities and equipment, storage space, mobile medical
facilities, vehicles and other equipment necessary or desirable for the
transportation of medical equipment or the transportation of patients.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-276.1; 1975, c. 295, § 15.1-1515; 1979, c. 719; 1997,
c. 587; 2000, c. 468; 2006, c. 658; 2023, cc. 148, 149.