As used in the Health Care Code:

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A. “authority” means the health care authority;

B. “crisis triage center” means a health facility that: (1)     is licensed by the authority; and

(2)     provides stabilization of behavioral health crises and may include residential and nonresidential stabilization;

C. “health care provider” means a person licensed to provide health care in the ordinary course of business, except as otherwise defined in the Health Care Code;

D. “health facility” means a public hospital; profit or nonprofit private hospital; general or special hospital; outpatient facility; crisis triage center; freestanding birth center; adult daycare facility; nursing home; intermediate care facility; assisted living facility; boarding home not under the control of an institution of higher learning; shelter care home; diagnostic and treatment center; rehabilitation center; infirmary; community mental health center that serves both children and adults or adults only; or a health service organization operating as a freestanding hospice or a home health agency. The designation of freestanding hospices or home health agencies as health facilities is only for the purposes of definition in the Health Care Code and does not imply that a freestanding hospice or a home health agency is considered a health facility for the purposes of other provisions of state or federal laws. “Health facility” includes those facilities that by federal regulation must be licensed by the state to obtain or maintain full or partial, permanent or temporary federal funding. “Health facility” does not include the offices and treatment rooms of licensed private practitioners; and

E. “secretary” means the secretary of health care authority.