Guam § 7102 - Definitions.
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 7102 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 7102. Definitions.
As used in this Chapter, unless the context requires a different
meaning:
(a) Nursing home means an institution, private home, other place or
part or unit thereof, however named, whether for profit or not, including
facilities operated by the government of Guam, which is advertised, offered,
maintained or operated for the express or implied purpose of providing
accommodations, nursing and/or related health care for two or more
individuals not related to the owner or administrator by blood or marriage
within the third degree of consanguinity, which accommodations and care
for a period of twenty-four (24) or more consecutive hours, but shall not
include any place providing care and treatment primarily for the acutely ill;
(b) Administrator of a nursing home means the individual in general
administrative charge of the nursing home; and
(c) Person means any individual, corporation, partnership, association,
territory or agency of the Territory or any other entity.
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