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(B) operates primarily for the purpose of providing surgical services to patients who do not require hospitalization; (2) “assisted living home” (A) means a residential facility that serves three or more adults who are not related to the owner by blood or marriage, or that receives state or federal payment for services regardless of the number of adults served; the Department of Health shall consider a facility to be an assisted living home if the facility (i) provides housing and food services to its residents; (ii) offers to provide or obtain for its residents assistance with activities of daily living; (iii) offers personal assistance as defined in AS 47.33.990; or (iv) provides or offers any combination of these services; (B) does not include (i) a correctional facility; (ii) an emergency shelter; (iii) a program licensed under AS 47.10.310 for runaway minors; (iv) a type of entity listed in AS 47.32.010(b)(6) — (11) or (c)(2); (3) “child placement agency” means an agency that arranges for placement of a child (A) in a foster home, residential child care facility, or adoptive home; or (B) for guardianship purposes; (4) “entity” means an entity listed in AS 47.32.010(b) or (c); (5) “foster home” means a place where the adult head of household provides 24-hour care on a continuing basis to one or more children who are apart from their parents; (6) “freestanding birth center” means a facility that is not a part of a hospital and that provides a birth service to maternal clients; (7) “frontier extended stay clinic” means a rural health clinic that is authorized to provide 24- hour care to one or more individuals; (8) “home health agency” means a public agency or private organization, or a subdivision of a public agency or private organization, that primarily engages in providing skilled nursing services in combination with physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, or services provided by a home health aide to an individual in the individual's home, an assisted living home, or another residential setting; in this paragraph, (A) “public agency” means an agency operated by the state or a local government; (B) “subdivision” means a component of a multi-function facility or home health agency, such as the home health care division of a hospital or the division of a public agency, that independently meets the requirements for licensure as a home health agency; (9) “hospice” or “agency providing hospice services or operating hospice programs” means a program that provides hospice services;