As used in this article--

“Child care” means care in lieu of parental care given for part of the twenty-four hour day to a child under sixteen years of age, away from the child's home but does not include child care furnished in a place of worship during religious services.

“Children's institutions” means any incorporated or unincorporated organization, society, corporation or agency, public or private, which may receive or care for children, or place them in foster family homes, either at board, wages or free; or any individual who, for hire, gain or reward, receives for care a child, unless he is related to such child by blood or marriage within the second degree; or any individual, not in the regular employ of the court or of an organization, society, association or agency, duly certified by the department, who in any manner becomes a party to the placing of children in foster homes, unless he is related to such children by blood or marriage within the second degree, or is the duly appointed guardian thereof. The term shall not include a family child care home or child care center operated for profit and subject to the provisions of Article X.¹

“Institution for adults” means any incorporated or unincorporated public or private organization, society or association including any agency of a county, county institution district or municipality which provides for food, shelter and some service to adults, or which provides rehabilitation, training, guidance or counselling to the blind or visually handicapped, or to the physically or mentally handicapped, including but limited to the following: homes for the aged and infirm, nursing homes, convalescent homes, placement agencies for adults, general and special hospitals and institutions for mentally ill and defective adults, rehabilitation centers having living-in arrangements, workshops and facilities for the rehabilitation of the visually, mentally or physically handicapped, and all organizations for the prevention of blindness.

“Maternity home and hospital” means any house, home or place in which, within a period of six months, any person receives for care or treatment during pregnancy, or during or immediately after parturition, more than one woman, except women related to such person by blood or marriage within the second degree.

“State institutions” mean and include all hospitals for the mentally ill, or any other institutions for mentally retarded or epileptic persons, or for juvenile delinquents and dependents, and charitable institutions, within this Commonwealth, maintained in whole by the Commonwealth, and whose boards of trustees are departmental administrative boards within the department.

“Supervised institution” means any charitable institution within the Commonwealth which receives financial assistance from the Commonwealth, either directly or indirectly, and to which the Governor does not appoint any member of the board of inspectors, managers, trustees or directors; all houses or places within the Commonwealth in which any person of unsound mind is detained, whenever the occupant or owner of the house, or person having charge of such person of unsound mind, receives any compensation for custody, control or attendance, other than as an attendant or nurse; and also all institutions, houses, or places, in which more than one such person is detained, with or without compensation paid for custody or attendance; all children's institutions and maternity homes and hospitals within the Commonwealth; all homes or hospitals for crippled children within the Commonwealth, except the State Hospital for Crippled Children; all hospitals, almshouses, or poorhouses, maintained by any county, city, borough, township or poor district of this Commonwealth; and all institutions, associations and societies within this Commonwealth into whose care the custody of delinquent, dependent or neglected children may be committed, and all houses and places maintained by such institutions, associations or societies in which such children may be kept or detained.