Sec. 167. (a) "Health facility":
(1) except for purposes of IC 16-28-15, means a building, a structure, an institution, or other place for the reception, accommodation, board, care, or treatment extending beyond a continuous twenty-four (24) hour period in a week of more than four (4) individuals who need or desire such services because of physical or mental illness, infirmity, or impairment; and
(2) for purposes of IC 16-28-15, has the meaning set forth in IC 16-28-15-3.
(b) The term does not include the premises used for the reception, accommodation, board, care, or treatment in a household or family, for compensation, of a person related by blood to the head of the household or family (or to the spouse of the head of the household or family) within the degree of consanguinity of first cousins.
(c) The term does not include any of the following:
(1) Hotels, motels, or mobile homes when used as such.
(2) Hospitals or mental hospitals, except for that part of a hospital that provides long term care services and functions as a health facility, in which case that part of the hospital is licensed under IC 16-21-2, but in all other respects is subject to IC 16-28.
(3) Hospices that furnish inpatient care and are licensed under IC 16-25-3.
(4) Institutions operated by the federal government.
(5) Foster family homes or day care centers.
(6) Schools for individuals who are deaf or blind.
(7) Day schools for individuals with an intellectual disability.
(8) Day care centers.
(9) Children's homes and child placement agencies.
(10) Offices of practitioners of the healing arts.
(11) Any institution in which health care services and private duty nursing services are provided that is listed and certified by the Commission for Accreditation of Christian Science Nursing Organizations/Facilities, Inc.
(12) Industrial clinics providing only emergency medical services or first aid for employees.
(13) A residential facility (as defined in IC 12-7-2-165).
(14) Maternity homes.
(15) Offices of Christian Science practitioners.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-4-2.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.61-1993, SEC.62; P.L.111-1996, SEC.2; P.L.58-2000, SEC.1; P.L.99-2007, SEC.153; P.L.229-2011, SEC.157; P.L.117-2015, SEC.32.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 18. General Provisions and Definitions
16-18-2-1.5. "Abortion Clinic"
16-18-2-1.6. "Abortion Inducing Drug"
16-18-2-1.7. "Abortion Complication"
16-18-2-1.8. "Additional Forensic Services"
16-18-2-2. "Adjustment and Incentive Support"
16-18-2-3. "Administrative Adjudication, Decision, or Order"
16-18-2-5.5. "Adult Stem Cell"
16-18-2-6.1. "Advance Directive"
16-18-2-6.5. "Advanced Emergency Medical Technician"
16-18-2-7. "Advanced Life Support"
16-18-2-7.3. "Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-11. "Agricultural Labor Camp"
16-18-2-12. "Alcohol and Drug Abuse Records"
16-18-2-13.4. "Ambulance Service" or "Ambulance Services"
16-18-2-14. "Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Center"
16-18-2-14-b. "Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Center"
16-18-2-15. "Anabolic Steroid"
16-18-2-17.2. "Anatomic Pathology Service"
16-18-2-18.5. "Any Other Disability"
16-18-2-20. "Appropriate Facility"
16-18-2-22. "Approved Postsecondary Educational Institution"
16-18-2-23. "Approved Laboratory"
16-18-2-24. "Armed Forces of the United States"
16-18-2-25. "Artificial Insemination"
16-18-2-27.5. "At Home Care Plan"
16-18-2-28.5. "Attendant Care Services"
16-18-2-29. "Attending Physician"
16-18-2-30.2. "Autism Spectrum Disorder"
16-18-2-31. "Autologous Donation"
16-18-2-33.5. "Basic Life Support"
16-18-2-34. "Bed and Breakfast Establishments"
16-18-2-35.5. "Best Interests"
16-18-2-35.8. "Biological Product"
16-18-2-36.5. "Birthing Center"
16-18-2-37.7. "Board of Commissioners"
16-18-2-37.8. "Board of Trustees"
16-18-2-38. "Branch Locker Plant"
16-18-2-48.5. "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation or Cpr"
16-18-2-51.5. "Certified Food Protection Manager"
16-18-2-52. "Certificate" or "Certification"
16-18-2-52.2. "Certificate of Free Sale"
16-18-2-52.5. "Charity Care"; "Financially Indigent"; "Medically Indigent"
16-18-2-54.5. "Childhood Hazards"
16-18-2-54.7. "Child-Occupied Facility"
16-18-2-55.5. "Chronic Disease"
16-18-2-56. "City Health Department"
16-18-2-56.2. "Clearance Examination"
16-18-2-58. "Cold Storage Warehouse"
16-18-2-64. "Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-64.5. "Community Benefits"
16-18-2-64.6. "Community Based Palliative Care"
16-18-2-65. "Community Health Services"
16-18-2-66. "Community or Migrant Health Center"
16-18-2-66.5. "Competent Witness"
16-18-2-67. "Comprehensive Care Bed"
16-18-2-67.1. "Comprehensive Care Health Facility"
16-18-2-67.5. "Comprehensive Plan"
16-18-2-68. "Confirmatory Test"
16-18-2-69.2. "Consumer Product"
16-18-2-69.3. "Continuing Care Retirement Community"
16-18-2-69.4. "Contractual Allowances"
16-18-2-70. "Construct, Erect, or Build"
16-18-2-70.1. "Construction Project"
16-18-2-72. "Consumer Commodity"
16-18-2-74. "Contaminated Sharp"
16-18-2-75. "Contaminated With Filth"
16-18-2-76. "Contracting County"
16-18-2-77. "Contributing County"
16-18-2-78. "Controlled Premises"
16-18-2-79. "Controlled Substance"
16-18-2-82.8. "Cost of Receivership"
16-18-2-83. "Cost of Construction"
16-18-2-85. "Counterfeit Drug"
16-18-2-86.5. "County Council"
16-18-2-87. "County Health Fund"
16-18-2-88. "County of Residence of the Child"
16-18-2-88.2. "Covered Entity"
16-18-2-88.5. "Crime of Domestic or Sexual Violence"
16-18-2-91.3. "Data Aggregation"
16-18-2-92.3. "De-Identified Maximum Negotiated Charge"; "De-Identified Minimum Negotiated Charge"
16-18-2-93. "Designated Health Official"
16-18-2-95. "Directed Donation"
16-18-2-96.1. "Discounted Cash Price"
16-18-2-96.4. "Dismemberment Abortion"
16-18-2-96.5. "Distributed for Use"
16-18-2-98. "Division Director and Director of a Division"
16-18-2-100. "Donor Insemination"
16-18-2-100.5. "Down Syndrome"
16-18-2-104.5. "Education Related Costs"
16-18-2-105. "Effective Treatment"
16-18-2-106. "Electronic Products"
16-18-2-106.2. "Electronic Record"
16-18-2-106.3. "Electronic Signature"
16-18-2-106.4. "Electronically Transmitted and Electronic Transmission"
16-18-2-106.5. "Eligible Medical Condition"
16-18-2-106.6. "Elevated Blood Lead Level"
16-18-2-107. "Emergency Ambulance Services"
16-18-2-109.1. "Emergency Medical Dispatch Agency"
16-18-2-109.5. "Emergency Medical Dispatching"
16-18-2-109.8. "Emergency Medical Responder"
16-18-2-110. "Emergency Medical Services"
16-18-2-111. "Emergency Medical Service Facility"
16-18-2-112. "Emergency Medical Technician"
16-18-2-113. "Emergency Patient"
16-18-2-114.6. "Encapsulation"
16-18-2-114.8. "Enforcement Action"
16-18-2-116. "Environmental Commissioner"
16-18-2-116.2. "Environmental Investigation"
16-18-2-116.4. "Environmental Rules Board"
16-18-2-117. "Established Name"
16-18-2-120. "Executive Board"
16-18-2-121. "Executive Director"
16-18-2-121.3. "Expanded Criminal History Check"
16-18-2-121.5. "Extended Length of Stay"
16-18-2-121.6. "Eyelash Extensions"
16-18-2-126. "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
16-18-2-127. "Federal Meat Inspection Act"
16-18-2-128. "Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act"
16-18-2-128.3. "Fertilization"
16-18-2-128.5. "Fetal Stem Cell"
16-18-2-129. "Filling Material"
16-18-2-130. "Financial Institution"
16-18-2-137. "Food Establishment"
16-18-2-138.2. "Food Handling Machinery"
16-18-2-138.5. "Food Instrument"
16-18-2-139. "Food Service Establishment"
16-18-2-139.5. "Forensic Medical Exam"
16-18-2-140. "Foundation Support"
16-18-2-145. "General Hospital"
16-18-2-146. "General Hospital Services"
16-18-2-148. "Generically Equivalent Drug Product"
16-18-2-149. "Governing Board"
16-18-2-150.4. "Government Sponsored Indigent Health Care"
16-18-2-151. "Governmental Unit"
16-18-2-153.7. "Grant Program"
16-18-2-154. "Gross Patient Revenue"
16-18-2-159.1. "Health Benefit Plan"
16-18-2-160.3. "Health Care Decision"
16-18-2-160.5. "Health Care Entity"
16-18-2-161. "Health Care Facility"
16-18-2-161.5. "Health Care Interpreter"
16-18-2-162. "Health Care Professional"
16-18-2-163. "Health Care Provider"
16-18-2-163-b. "Health Care Provider"
16-18-2-163.3. "Health Care Quality Indicator Data"
16-18-2-163.4. "Health Care Representative"
16-18-2-163.5. "Health Care Translator"
16-18-2-164.6. "Health Coverage Provider"
16-18-2-166. "Health Directive"
16-18-2-167. "Health Facility"
16-18-2-167.5. "Health Information"
16-18-2-168.5. "Health System"
16-18-2-170. "High Risk Activity"
16-18-2-173. "Home Health Agency"
16-18-2-174. "Home Health Aide"
16-18-2-175. "Home Health Aide Services"
16-18-2-176. "Home Health Services"
16-18-2-177.2. "Hospice Program"
16-18-2-177.3. "Hospice Program Patient"
16-18-2-177.4. "Hospice Services"
16-18-2-180. "Hospital Based Health Facility"
16-18-2-181. "Hospital Fund or Hospital Funds"
16-18-2-182. "Hospital Purposes"
16-18-2-183.2. "Human Cells, Tissues, or Cellular or Tissue-Based Products"
16-18-2-186. "Immediate Container"
16-18-2-186.3. "Immunization Passport"
16-18-2-186.4. "Immunization Status"
16-18-2-186.5. "Incapacity"; "Incapacitated"
16-18-2-187.2. "Incremental Fee"
16-18-2-187.5. "Indiana Birth Registration System"
16-18-2-187.6. "Indiana Death Registration System"
16-18-2-187.8. "Indiana Governmental Entity"
16-18-2-188.1. "Indiana University Hospitals"
16-18-2-188.3. "Individual With a Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-188.5. "Individual With a Disability"
16-18-2-188.7. "Industrialized Residential Structure"
16-18-2-189. "Infectious Waste"
16-18-2-190. "Informed Consent"
16-18-2-191.2. "Interchangeable"
16-18-2-191.5. "Interdisciplinary Team"
16-18-2-192. "Intrastate Commerce"
16-18-2-193. "Invasive Medical Care"
16-18-2-193.5. "Investigational Drug"
16-18-2-194. "Investigational or New Drug"
16-18-2-194.7. "Item or Service"
16-18-2-198.3. "Lay Caregiver"
16-18-2-198.5. "Lead-Based Paint"
16-18-2-198.7. "Lead-Based Paint Activities"
16-18-2-200. "Legislative Body"
16-18-2-201.5. "Lethal Fetal Anomaly"
16-18-2-202. "Licensed Physician"
16-18-2-203. "Life Prolonging Procedure"
16-18-2-204. "Life Prolonging Procedures Will Declarant"
16-18-2-205. "Live Birth or Birth"
16-18-2-208. "Living Will Declarant"
16-18-2-210. "Local Board of Health"
16-18-2-210.5. "Local Fetal-Infant Mortality Review Team"
16-18-2-211. "Local Health Department"
16-18-2-212. "Local Health Officer"
16-18-2-214.9. "Mandatory Reporter"
16-18-2-215.5. "Manufactured Home"
16-18-2-218. "Maternal and Child Health Clinic"
16-18-2-218.3. "Maternal Morbidity"
16-18-2-218.5. "Maternal Mortality"
16-18-2-220. "Maternity Home Operator"
16-18-2-223. "Mechanical Device"
16-18-2-223.4. "Medical Center"
16-18-2-223.5. "Medical Emergency"
16-18-2-223.6. "Medical Director"
16-18-2-223.7. "Medically Contraindicated"
16-18-2-224.1. "Medication Assisted Treatment"
16-18-2-225. "Member of the Armed Forces"
16-18-2-225.8. "Mental Health Provider"
16-18-2-226. "Mental Health Records"
16-18-2-226.2. "Merger"; "Merger Agreement"
16-18-2-226.5. "Micro Market Display"
16-18-2-227. "Migratory Temporary Increase in Population"
16-18-2-230.5. "Military Service Applicant"
16-18-2-237.1. "Miscarried Fetus"
16-18-2-238.5. "Mobile Home Community"
16-18-2-239.2. "Mobile Integrated Healthcare"
16-18-2-242. "Motor Fuel Outlet"
16-18-2-243. "Municipal Corporation"
16-18-2-244. "Narrative Report"
16-18-2-244.5. "National Criminal History Background Check"
16-18-2-244.8. "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome" and "Nas"
16-18-2-245. "Net Operating Revenue"
16-18-2-246. "Net Patient Revenue"
16-18-2-250. "Noncompliant Behavior"
16-18-2-251. "Nonprofit Hospital"
16-18-2-252. "Nonprofit Hospital Corporation"
16-18-2-253.2. "Nonresidential Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-253.5. "Nontransporting Emergency Medical Services Vehicle"
16-18-2-253.6. Nsf/ansi Standards
16-18-2-253.7. "Nursing Facility"
16-18-2-253.8. "Notarial Officer"
16-18-2-254.2. "Objective Scientific Information"
16-18-2-256. "Official Compendium"
16-18-2-263.5. "Onsite Residential Sewage Discharging Disposal System"
16-18-2-263.6. "Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-263.9. "Overdose Intervention Drug"
16-18-2-264.1. "Operational Canine"
16-18-2-264.5. "Other Unlicensed Employee"
16-18-2-264.7. "Out of Hospital"
16-18-2-264.8. "Out of Hospital Dnr Declaration and Order"
16-18-2-264.9. "Out of Hospital Dnr Identification Device"
16-18-2-265.5. "Palliative Care"
16-18-2-266.4. "Parent or Legal Guardian or Custodian"
16-18-2-266.5. "Parent Personal Services Agency"
16-18-2-267. "Parental Consent"
16-18-2-267.5. "Partial Birth Abortion"
16-18-2-268. "Partnership Responsibility"
16-18-2-271. "Pathological Waste"
16-18-2-272.5. "Payer-Specific Negotiated Charge"
16-18-2-273.5. "Perinatal Hospice"
16-18-2-276. "Person in Attendance at Birth"
16-18-2-277. "Person in Charge of Interment"
16-18-2-277.5. "Person With a Disability"
16-18-2-277.6. "Personal Representative"
16-18-2-277.7. "Personal Services"
16-18-2-277.8. "Personal Services Agency"
16-18-2-277.9. "Personal Information"
16-18-2-279. "Pesticide Chemical"
16-18-2-280. "Petroleum Products"
16-18-2-281.5. "Phase Out Period"
16-18-2-282.1. "Physician Assistant Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-282.2. "Physician Last in Attendance"
16-18-2-287.5. "Postfertilization Age"
16-18-2-287.7. "Post-Organ Transplant Program"
16-18-2-287.8. "Potentially Hazardous Food Product"
16-18-2-287.9. "Potential Diagnosis"
16-18-2-292.5. "Primary Caregiver"
16-18-2-292.7. "Primary Prevention"
16-18-2-293. "Principal Display Panel"
16-18-2-293.3. "Presence"; "Present"; "To Be Present"
16-18-2-293.5. "Probable Gestational Age of the Fetus"
16-18-2-296. "Provider Organization"
16-18-2-296.3. "Psychiatric Advance Directive"
16-18-2-297. "Public Accommodation"
16-18-2-298.5. "Public Health Authority"
16-18-2-299.1. "Publicly Owned Treatment Works"
16-18-2-301. "Publish"; "Published"; "Cause to Be Published"
16-18-2-301.7. "Qualified Entity"
16-18-2-302. "Qualified Patient"
16-18-2-302.3. "Qualified Person"
16-18-2-302.5. "Qualified Recipient"
16-18-2-304. "Radiation Machine"
16-18-2-306. "Radioactive Material"
16-18-2-306.7. "Rape or Incest"
16-18-2-308. "Real Property or Land"
16-18-2-308.2. "Reasonably Available"
16-18-2-308.5. "Recognized Accrediting Organization"
16-18-2-312. "Recording Officer"
16-18-2-313. "Reduction in License"
16-18-2-316.6. "Replacement Facility"
16-18-2-317.3. "Reproductive Health Care Facility"
16-18-2-317.7. "Residential Care Facility"
16-18-2-317.8. "Residential Onsite Sewage System"
16-18-2-318. "Responsible Head"
16-18-2-324.7. "Second Opinion"
16-18-2-326.5. "Secured Storage"
16-18-2-327.5. "Serious Communicable Disease"
16-18-2-327.9. "Serious Health Risk"
16-18-2-327.9-b. "Serious Health Risk"
16-18-2-328. "Serious and Present Risk to the Health of Others"
16-18-2-328.2. "Service Animal"
16-18-2-328.3. "Sexual Assault Examination Kit"
16-18-2-328.4. "Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner"
16-18-2-328.5. "Shaken Baby Syndrome"
16-18-2-328.6. "Sex Selective Abortion"
16-18-2-331.8. "Small Employer"
16-18-2-331.9. "Small House Health Facility"
16-18-2-337. "Sponsoring or Supervising Hospital"
16-18-2-337.5. "Standard Charge"
16-18-2-337.8. "Standard Licensed Diagnostic Test for Hiv"
16-18-2-338. "Standard Serological Test for Syphilis"
16-18-2-338.3. "Standing Order"
16-18-2-338.5. "State Authority"
16-18-2-339. "State Department"
16-18-2-340. "State Health Commissioner"; "Commissioner"
16-18-2-342. "Storage Facility"
16-18-2-342.4. "Subsidized Health Services"
16-18-2-346.3. "Target Housing"
16-18-2-348.7. "Telephonic Interaction"
16-18-2-349. "Temporary Residence"
16-18-2-351. "Terminal Condition"
16-18-2-351.5. "Terminal Illness"
16-18-2-352.5. "Total Comprehensive Care Bed Days Available at Comprehensive Care Health Facilities"
16-18-2-352.7. "Total Statewide Inpatient Days"
16-18-2-353.5. "Training or Educational Purposes"
16-18-2-354. "Transfer Station"
16-18-2-354.8. "Treating Physician"
16-18-2-358. "Unfit for Human Habitation"
16-18-2-360. "Universal Precautions"
16-18-2-361. "Unnecessary Radiation"
16-18-2-362.1. "Urgent Care Facility"
16-18-2-363.3. "Vending Machine"
16-18-2-366. "Vital Statistics"
16-18-2-367. "Volunteer Fire Department"
16-18-2-368. "Volunteer Firefighter"
16-18-2-370. "Waste Blood Specimen"
16-18-2-376. "Wic Participant"
16-18-2-378. "Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program"