(1) "Agency" means any person, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization, whether public or private, proprietary or nonprofit;

(2) "Class A license" means that the applicant is at the time of filing an application a Medicare-certified home health agency. If the applicant is not at the time of filing its application a certified home health agency, it shall be in the process of receiving its certification from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services;

(3) "Class B license" means that the application shall show proof of the services provided and the geographical territory in which those services have been provided as of July 20, 1987, and that the applicant shall have requested a survey for the purpose of confirming the services provided and territory covered;

(4) "Division" means the Division of Health Facilities Services;

(5) "Home healthcare services" means the providing or coordinating of acute, restorative, rehabilitative, maintenance, preventive, or health promotion services through professional nursing or by other therapeutic services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, home health aide, or personal services in a client's residence;

(6) "Home healthcare services agency" means an agency licensed to provide home healthcare services;

(7) "Place of business" means any office of a home health agency including subunits;

(8) "Residence" means a place where a person resides, including a home, nursing home, or convalescent home for the disabled or aged; and

(9) "Subunit" means an organization of an agency that provides home healthcare services and which serves patients in a geographic area different from that of the agency.