Definitions. — Guam Code § 25101

§ 25101. Definitions.

As used in this Chapter:

(a) “child care facility” means any person or place which receives or arranges placement of one

(1) or more children who are not related to such person, whether for gain or otherwise, apart from the

parents or guardian, with or without the transfer of the right of custody, for the purpose of providing

regular care or training for such child or children during either the day or night, or both. Except as

otherwise provided, the term “child care facility” includes, but is not limited to, all facilities defined

by the Department of Public Health and Social Services as family day care homes, foster family homes,

group day care homes, residential treatment facilities, day care center, day nurseries, nursery school,

kindergarten school, day care homes, intergenerational day care centers, or similar institutions or units

regardless of name;

(b) “penal institution” means any jail, detention center, prison, camp, home, juvenile detention

home or cottages or other facility operated by the government of Guam and used as a holding facility,

jail or residential custodial facility. This definition does not include hospitals or child care facilities;

(c) “school” means any establishment, public or private, for the care and education of students

from kindergarten through grade twelve (12) and any college or university or educational institution

of higher learning;

(d) “hospital” means any building, structure, institution or place, public or private, whether

organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the

diagnosis, treatment and provision of medical or surgical care for three (3) or more non-related

individuals, hereinafter designated patients, admitted for overnight stay or longer in order to obtain

medical, including obstetric, psychiatric and nursing care of illness, disease, injury or deformity,

whether physical or mental and regularly making available at least clinical laboratory services and

diagnostic x-ray services and treatment facilities for surgery or obstetrical care or other definitive

medical treatment;

(e) “clinic” means any building, structure, institution or place, public or private, whether

organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the

medical or dental diagnosis and treatment of human illness, injury or deformity or the veterinary

medical or veterinary dental diagnosis and treatment of animal illness, injury or deformity;

(f) “nursing home” means a facility established for profit or non-profit, which provides nursing

care and related medical services twenty-four (24) hours per day of two (2) or more individuals because

of illness, disease or mental infirmity. It provides care for those persons not in need of hospital care

but requiring nursing care or related medical services, which medical services shall be prescribed by a

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professional nurse or a physical therapist or an occupational therapist, depending upon the service

required. If children are cared for, they shall have a separate unit;

(g) “laboratory” means any building, structure, institution or place, public or private, whether

organized for profit or not, devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the

examination or testing of humans or animals, living or dead, or any parts or physiologic products

thereof, for the purpose of detecting or confirming the presence of illness or infirmity; and

(h) “client” means any person attending, residing, observed, examined, tested or treated, in any

child care facility, penal institution, school, hospital, clinic, nursing home or laboratory.