                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 32.1-3)

As used in this title unless the context requires otherwise or it is otherwise
provided:
		&#8220;Board&#8221; or &#8220;State Board&#8221; means the State Board of
Health.
		&#8220;Commissioner&#8221; means the State Health Commissioner.
		&#8220;Department&#8221; means the State Department of Health.
		&#8220;Medical care facility&#8221; means any institution, place, building, or
agency, whether or not licensed or required to be licensed by the Board or the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, whether operated for
profit or nonprofit, and whether privately owned or privately operated or owned
or operated by a local governmental unit, (i) by or in which health services are
furnished, conducted, operated, or offered for the prevention, diagnosis, or
treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical condition,
whether medical or surgical, of two or more nonrelated persons who are injured
or physically sick or have mental illness, or for the care of two or more
nonrelated persons requiring or receiving medical, surgical, nursing, acute,
chronic, convalescent, or long-term care services, or services for individuals
with disabilities, or (ii) which is the recipient of reimbursements from
third-party health insurance programs or prepaid medical service plans.
		The term &#8220;medical care facility&#8221; does not include any facility of
(a) the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services; (b) any
nonhospital substance abuse residential treatment program operated by or
contracted primarily for the use of a community services board under the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services&#8217; Comprehensive
State Plan; (c) an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual
disability (ICF/IID) that has no more than 12 beds and is in an area identified
as in need of residential services for individuals with intellectual disability
in any plan of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services;
(d) a physician&#8217;s office, except that portion of a physician&#8217;s
office described in subdivision A 6 of § 32.1-102.1:3; (e) the Wilson Workforce
and Rehabilitation Center of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative
Services; (f) the Department of Corrections; or (g) the Department of Veterans
Services.
		&#8220;Person&#8221; means an individual, corporation, partnership, or
association or any other legal entity.

HISTORY: 1979, c. 711; 2020, c. 1271.