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(10) “hospice services” means a range of interdisciplinary palliative and supportive services (A) provided in a home or at an inpatient facility to persons who are terminally ill and to those persons' families in order to meet their physical, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs; and (B) based on hospice philosophy; for purposes of this subparagraph, “hospice philosophy” means a philosophy that is life affirming, recognizes dying as a normal process of living, focuses on maintaining the quality of remaining life, neither hastens nor postpones death, strengthens the client's role in making informed decisions about care, and stresses the delivery of services in the least restrictive setting possible and with the least amount of technology necessary by volunteers and professionals who are trained to help a client with the physical, social, psychological, spiritual, and emotional issues related to terminal illness so that the client can feel better prepared for the death that is to come; (11) “hospital” means a public or private institution or establishment devoted primarily to providing diagnosis, treatment, or care over a continuous period of 24 hours each day for two or more unrelated individuals suffering from illness, physical or mental disease, injury or deformity, or any other condition for which medical or surgical services would be appropriate; “hospital” does not include a frontier extended stay clinic; (12) “host care home” means a home in which the adult head of household resides and provides 24-hour care on a continuing basis under a license issued under AS 47.32.033 for an individual eligible under AS 47.07.048. (13) “intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability or related condition” has the meaning given in 42 C.F.R. 440.150; (14) “licensed entity” means an entity that has a license issued under this chapter; (15) “maternity home” means a place of residence the primary function of which is to give care, with or without compensation, to pregnant individuals, regardless of age, or that provides care, as needed, to mothers and their newborn infants; (16) “nursing facility” means a facility that is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing care or rehabilitative services and related services for those who, because of their mental or physical condition, require care and services above the level of room and board; “nursing facility” does not include a facility that is primarily for the care and treatment of mental diseases; (17) “residential child care facility” means a place, staffed by employees, where one or more children who are apart from their parents receive 24-hour care on a continuing basis; (18) “residential psychiatric treatment center” means a secure or semi-secure facility, or an inpatient program in another facility, that provides, under the direction of a physician, psychiatric diagnostic, evaluation, and treatment services on a 24-hour-a-day basis to children with severe emotional or behavioral disorders; (19) “runaway shelter” means a facility housing a runaway child; (20) “rural health clinic” (A) means a facility or clinic that is authorized to provide health care services and is located in a rural area; (B) includes a frontier extended stay clinic;