§ 35-2-302 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Commissioner" means the director of the state
department of health. The director of the state department of
health shall be, ex officio, the commissioner;
(ii) "The federal act" means title VI of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 291 et seq.) as is now and as
may hereafter be amended;
(iii) "The surgeon general" means the surgeon general
of the public health service of the United States;
(iv) "Hospital" includes public health centers and
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, but does not include any hospital furnishing
primarily domiciliary care;
(v) "Public health center" means a publicly owned
facility for the provision of public health services, including
related facilities such as laboratories, clinics and
administrative offices operated in connection with public health
centers;
(vi) "Nonprofit hospital" means any hospital or
medical facility owned and operated by a corporation or
association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may
lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or
individual;
(vii) "Medical facilities" means diagnostic or
diagnostic and treatment centers, rehabilitation facilities and
nursing homes as those terms are defined in the federal act and
such other medical facilities for which federal aid may be
authorized under the federal act.