[§328B-1]  Definitions.  For thepurposes of this chapter:

"Institutional facility" means an organization or facility whose primary purpose is toprovide a physical environment for patients to obtain health care services orat-home care services, and that uses the services of an on-sitepharmacy, an off-site pharmacy, or a pharmacist contractor at which medicationstorage is managed by personnel of the facility.  "Institutionalfacility" includes but is not limited to a:

(1)  Hospital;

(2)  Convalescent home;

(3)  Skilled nursing facility;

(4)  Intermediate care facility;

(5)  Extended care facility;

(6)  Rehabilitation center;

(7)  Health maintenance organization clinic;

(8)  Psychiatric center;

(9)  Mental retardation center;

(10)  Penal institution;

(11)  Hospice facility;

(12)  Supervised living group; or

(13)  Prescribing practitioner's office.

"Pharmacy" means a place of businessoperating as a pharmacy as permitted under chapter 461.

"Return-for-credit-and-reuse" as itpertains to prescription drugs means the process by which prescription drugsdispensed by the dispensing pharmacy of an institutional facility are safelyreturned to that pharmacy and redispensed for purposes of patient or residentcare, or both, which process includes the appropriate crediting of the cost ofreturned drugs to the payer, less handling fees to providers where applicable,recordkeeping, and the return of the drugs to pharmacy stock for redispensing.[L 2004, c 190, pt of §2]