Chapter 111: Section 70E

Patients' and Residents' Rights

Section 70E. As used in this section, "facility'' shall mean any hospital, institution

for the care of unwed mothers, clinic, infirmary maintained in a town, convalescent or

nursing home, rest home, or charitable home for the aged, licensed or subject to licensing by the department; any state hospital operated by the department; any "facility'' as defined in section three of chapter one hundred and eleven B; any private, county or municipal facility, department or ward which is licensed or subject to licensing by the department of mental health pursuant to section nineteen of chapter nineteen; or by the department of mental retardation pursuant to section fifteen of chapter nineteen B; any "facility'' as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and twenty-three; the Soldiers Home in Holyoke, the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts; and any facility set forth in section one of chapter nineteen or section one of chapter nineteen B.

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