Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A private hospital is a facility at which health services are provided to persons who are discharged from the facility on a day other than the day on which the persons were admitted to the facility.
(2) However, a private hospital does not include the following--
(a) a hospital operated by the State;
(b) a nursing home, hostel, or other facility at which accommodation, and nursing or personal care, is provided to persons who, because of infirmity, illness, disease, incapacity or disability, have a permanent need for nursing or personal care.