(11) means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, ‘Person’ a corporation including an association, joint stock company, insurance company, and a health maintenance organization, a health care facility, a state, a political subdivision, or an instrumentality including a municipal corporation of a state, or any legal entity recognized by the State. (12) treatment facility for children and ‘Residential adolescents’ means a facility operated for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care of two or more and adolescents in need of mental ‘children health which provides: treatment’ (a) a special education program with a minimum program defined by the South Carolina Department of Education; (b) recreational facilities with an organized youth development program; and (c) residential treatment for a child or adolescent in need of mental health treatment. (13) adolescents, and young adults in need of mental ‘Children, health in a residential treatment facility means a child, treatment’ adolescent, or young adult under age twentyone who manifests a substantial disorder of cognitive or emotional process, which lessens or impairs to a marked degree that or young child’s, adolescent’s, capacity either to develop or to exercise ageappropriate or adult’s ageadequate behavior including, but not limited to, marked disorders of mood or thought processes, severe difficulties with selfcontrol and judgment including behavior dangerous to self or others, and serious disturbances in the ability to care for and relate to others. (14) care facility for persons with intellectual ‘Intermediate means a facility that serves four or more persons with disability’ intellectual disability or persons with related conditions and provides health or rehabilitative services on a regular basis to individuals whose mental and physical conditions require services including room, board, and active treatment for their intellectual disability or related conditions. (15) are means a ‘Facilities wherein abortions performed’ facility, other than a hospital, in which any second trimester or five or more first trimester abortions are performed in a month. (16) therapy means a person or a health care ‘Radiation facility’ facility which provides or seeks to provide megavoltage therapeutic services to patients through the use of high energy radiation. (17) means a facility or other place where ‘Birthing center’ human births are planned to occur but does not include the usual
(11) ‘Person’ means an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, a corporation including an association, joint stock company, insurance company, and a health maintenance organization, a health care facility, a state, a political subdivision, or an instrumentality including a municipal corporation of a state, or any legal entity recognized by the State. (12) ‘Residential treatment facility for children and adolescents’ means a facility operated for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care of two or more ‘children and adolescents in need of mental health treatment’ which provides: (a) a special education program with a minimum program defined by the South Carolina Department of Education; (b) recreational facilities with an organized youth development program; and (c) residential treatment for a child or adolescent in need of mental health treatment. (13) ‘Children, adolescents, and young adults in need of mental health treatment’ in a residential treatment facility means a child, adolescent, or young adult under age twentyone who manifests a substantial disorder of cognitive or emotional process, which lessens or impairs to a marked degree that child’s, adolescent’s, or young adult’s capacity either to develop or to exercise ageappropriate or ageadequate behavior including, but not limited to, marked disorders of mood or thought processes, severe difficulties with selfcontrol and judgment including behavior dangerous to self or others, and serious disturbances in the ability to care for and relate to others. (14) ‘Intermediate care facility for persons with intellectual disability’ means a facility that serves four or more persons with intellectual disability or persons with related conditions and provides health or rehabilitative services on a regular basis to individuals whose mental and physical conditions require services including room, board, and active treatment for their intellectual disability or related conditions. (15) ‘Facilities wherein abortions are performed’ means a facility, other than a hospital, in which any second trimester or five or more first trimester abortions are performed in a month. (16) ‘Radiation therapy facility’ means a person or a health care facility which provides or seeks to provide megavoltage therapeutic services to patients through the use of high energy radiation. (17) ‘Birthing center’ means a facility or other place where human births are planned to occur but does not include the usual
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