1372                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 866

(c)    Hospitals shall be classified as general or special hospitals as
follows:

(1)    General hospitals shall meet the definition in subsection (b)
above and shall maintain facilities and services necessary for (but not
limited to) the general medical and surgical care of patients.

(2)    Special hospitals shall meet the definition in subsection (b)
above but shall limit admission of patients to those having medical
or surgical needs which fall within the scope of the program defined
by the institution and maintain facilities and provide specialized
services such as obstetrical, mental, tuberculosis, orthopedic, chronic
disease, rehabilitation, or communicable disease to meet the needs of
the patients admitted.

(d)    "Related Institutions" as herein used is defined as any organ-
ized institution, environment, or home which falls within the juris-
diction of this subtitle and maintains conditions or facilities and
equipment for "domiciliary," "personal" or "nursing" services for
nonrelated individuals who are not gainfully employed and who are
dependent on the administrator, operator or proprietor for nursing
care or the subsistence of daily living in a safe, sanitary and healthful
environment.

(e)    Related Institutions shall be classified as nursing homes or
care homes as follows:

(1)    Nursing homes shall meet the definition in subsection (d)
above and shall provide nursing care for chronically ill or convales-
cent patients. Nursing homes shall include (but are not limited to)
convalescent homes, nursing units of homes for the aged, psychiatric
nursing homes, nursing facilities for the handicapped, homes for
alcoholics, halfway houses, or any other home-type facility which
admits patients and holds itself out as providing twenty-four (24)
hours per day nursing care for such patients.

(2)    Care homes shall meet the definition in subsection (d) above
and shall either (i) provide domiciliary or personal care services in
a protective institutional environment to persons who because of
advanced age, or physical or mental disability are not gainfully em-
ployed, or (ii) provide domiciliary care in a protective institutional
or home-type environment to persons who because of advanced age,
or physical or mental disability are not gainfully employed.

(f)    "Nonrelated Individual" shall mean anyone who is not a son,
daughter, grandson, granddaughter, father, mother, grandfather,
grandmother, brother, sister, stepmother, stepfather, stepson, step-
daughter, husband or wife of the owner or lessee, or not an in-law of
any one of the above persons.

(g)    "Patient" shall mean any individual suffering from disease or
disabilities or any individual who due to advanced age requires serv-
ices or care.

(h) "Nursing Care" shall mean services to patients requested or
ordered by physicians and provided or supervised by registered or
practical nurses licensed to practice in the State of Maryland.

(i) "Personal Care" shall mean those services which an individual
would normally perform for himself but for which he is personally