10 Guam Code Ann. § 5102
(a) >Charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization= means any organization which was organized and is operating on Guam for charitable or religious purposes or to promote social welfare, which is exempt from income taxation under 501(c) 3 of the United States Internal Revenue Code and which distributes pharmaceuticals and health care supplies at no cost to needy persons.
(b) >Director= shall mean the Director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services. The Director shall also serve as the Medicine Bank Director or if he is unable to do so, he shall authorize a licensed pharmacist or another individual with the qualifications and knowledge of receiving, distributing, or storing pharmaceuticals, to administer the Medicine Bank.
(c) >Institutional facility= means a government owned and operated: (1) Hospital;
(2) Convalescent home;
(3) Nursing home;
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(4) Extended care facility; (5) Mental institution;
(6) Rehabilitation center;
(7) Health maintenance organization; (8) Psychiatric center;
(9) Mental retardation center; (10) Penal institution; or
(11) Any other government-owned organization or facility whose primary purpose is to provide a physical environment for patients to obtain health care services or at-home care services, except those places where physicians, dentists, veterinarians, osteopaths, podiatrists, or other prescribers are duly licensed to engage in exclusively private practice.
(d) >Eligible Person= means any person as defined by the Medically
Indigent Program (AMIP@) for Guam and the Medicaid Poverty Guidelines.
(e) >Pharmaceuticals and health care supplies= means any medicine prescription or nonprescription, excluding all controlled substances listed in Title 9, GCA Chapter 67, the Uniform Controlled Substance Act; or health care supplies such as soap, personal sanitary products, baby formula, dietary supplement, health care aids such as thermometers, surgical gloves, or bandages, or any other item which is fit for human consumption or external use, before the expiration date stamped on the product.
(f) >Pharmaceutical company= means any company that manufactures pharmaceuticals and health care supplies or distributes such items.
(g) >Pharmacy= means any place on Guam where drugs are dispensed and pharmaceutical care is provided to residents of Guam, or as further defined in the Guam Code Annotated Title 10, The Guam Pharmacy Practice Act.
(h) >Pharmacist= means an individual licensed on Guam to practice his/her profession and any other person (e.g., pharmacist intern) authorized by Guam law to practice under the supervision of a pharmacist licensed on Guam and in the practice of pharmacy as defined in the Guam Code Annotated Title 10, The Guam Pharmacy Act.
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(i) >Licensed Practitioner=, for purposes of this Act, shall mean a
physician, nurse, dentist, pharmacist, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted by Guam law, to distribute, dispense, administer or prescribe drugs in accordance with the Guam Code Annotated Title 10, The Guam Pharmacy Practice Act and other applicable Guam law(s).
(j) >Prescription=, means an order for medication which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user, but does not include an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user (e.g. an order to dispense a drug to a bed patient for immediate administration in a hospital is not a prescription) and as defined by Guam Code Annotated Title
10, The Guam Pharmacy Act.