10 Guam Code Ann. § 25101
Terms Used In 10 Guam Code Ann. § 25101
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
(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 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
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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 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.