Admission Agreement
Includes all documents that a resident
or his or her representative must sign at the time of, or as a condition of, admission to
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residential care facility for the elderly licensed under this chapter.
Advance Health Care Directive
A written instruction that relates to the provision of health care when the individual is incapacitated. Advance directives include, but are not limited to, a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, an Individual Health Care Instruction, a Request to Forego Resuscitative Measures, or a Do Not Resuscitate Form.
Allowable Health Condition
Any health condition that the licensee is allowed to care for either in accordance with a specific regulation, or with an exception approved by the licensing agency. This includes restricted health conditions as specified in Section 87612, Restricted Health Conditions.
Ambulatory Person
A person who is capable of demonstrating the mental competence and physical ability to leave a building without assistance of any other person or without the use of any mechanical aid in case of an emergency.
AED
Automated External Defibrillators - portable electronic device that analyzes the heart's rhythm and can deliver an electrical shock, which helps the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm known as defibrillation
ASP
Appropriately Skilled Professional - An individual that has training and is licensed to perform the necessary medical procedures prescribed by a physician. This includes but is not limited to the following: Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational Therapist (OT) and Respiratory Therapist (RT). T
Basic Rate
as defined in Health and Safety Code section 1569.312, means those services required (that meet the needs of residents) to be provided by the facility in order to obtain and maintain a license; safe and healthful living accommodations; personal assistance and care; observation and supervision; planned activities; food service; and arrangements for obtaining incidental medical and dental care.
Basic Services
Services required to be provided by the facility in order to obtain and maintain a license and include, in such combinations as may meet the needs of the residents and be applicable to the type of facility to be operated, the following: safe and healthful living accommodations; personal assistance and care; observation and supervision; planned activities; food service; and arrangements for obtaining incidental medical and dental care.
California Clearance
Individual has no felony or misdemeanor convictions reported by the California Department of Justice. However, the individual may have been arrested with no criminal conviction, convicted of a minor traffic offense or adjudicated as a juvenile.
Capacity
Maximum number of persons authorized to be provided services at any one time in any licensed facility.
Care and Supervision
Activities which if provided shall require the facility to be licensed. (A) Assistance in dressing, grooming, bathing and other personal hygiene; (B) Assistance with taking medication (C) Central storing and distribution of medications & Incidental Medical and Dental Care Services; (D) Arrangement of and assistance with medical and dental care; may include transportation (E) Maintenance of house rules for the protection of residents; (F) Supervision of resident schedules and activities; (G) Maintenance and supervision of resident monies or property; (H) Monitoring food intake or special diets
Certificate Holder
A person who has a current administrator's certificate issued by the Department regardless of whether the person is employed as an administrator in a residential care facility for the elderly.
Certified Administrator
An administrator who has been issued a residential care facility for the elderly administrator certificate by the Department and whose certificate is current.
Community Care Facility
Any facility, place or building providing nonmedical care and supervision, as defined in Section 87101(c)(3).
Conservator
Person appointed by the Superior Court pursuant to Probate Code section 1800 et. seq. or Welfare and Institutions Code section 5350, to care for the person, or estate, or person and estate, of an adult.
Continuing Care Contract
A contract that includes a continuing care promise made, in exchange for an entrance fee, the payment of periodic charges, or both types of payments. A continuing care contract may consist of one agreement or a series of agreements and other writings incorporated by reference.
Control of Property
The right to enter, occupy, and maintain the operation of the facility property within regulatory requirements. Evidence of control of property: (A) A Grant Deed showing ownership; (B) The Lease Agreement or Rental Agreement; or (C) A court order or similar document which shows the authority to control the property pending outcome of probate proceeding or estate settlement.
Criminal Record Clearance
An individual has a California clearance and a FBI clearance.
Deficiency
Any failure to comply with any provision of the Residential Care Facilities Act for the Elderly and regulations adopted by the Department pursuant to the Act.
Delayed Egress Device
A special egress-control device of the time delay type as specified in Health and Safety Code section 1569.699(a). (T22, pg. 11)
Dementia
The loss of intellectual function (such as thinking, remembering, reasoning, exercising judgment and making decisions) and other cognitive functions, sufficient to interfere with an individual's ability to perform activities of daily living or to carry out social or occupational activities. Dementia is not a disease itself, but rather a group of symptoms that may accompany certain conditions or diseases
"Department"
The State Department of Social Services
Dietitician
A person who is eligible for registration by the American Dietetic Association.
Direct Care Staff
The licensee, or those individuals employed by the licensee, who provide direct care to the residents, including, but not limited to, assistance with activities of daily living.
"Director"
Director of the State Department of Social Services
DNR
Do Not Resuscutate Form; alerts pre-hospital emergency medical services personnel to the resident's wish to forego resuscitative measures in the event of the resident's cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Egress Alert Device
A wrist band or other device which may be worn by a resident or carried on a resident's person, which triggers a visual or auditory alarm when the resident leaves the facility building or grounds.
Elderly Person
For purposes of admission into a residential care facility for the elderly, a person who is sixty (60) years of age or older.
EAO
Emergency Approval to Operate; a temporary approval to operate a facility for no more than 60 days pending the issuance or denial of a license by the licensing agency.
Evaluator
Any person who is a duly authorized officer, employee or agent of the Department including any officer, employee or agent of a county or other public agency authorized by contract to license community care facilities.
Evidence of Licensee's Death (shall include...)
shall include, but is not limited to, a copy of the death certificate, obituary notice, certification of death from the decedent's mortuary, or a letter from the attending physician or coroner's office verifying the death of the licensee
Exception
A variance to a specific regulation based on the unique needs or circumstances of a specific resident or staff person.
Existing Facility
Any facility operating under a valid license on the date of application for a new license
Facility Hospice Care Waiver
A waiver from the limitation on retention of residents who require more care and supervision than other residents and residents who are bedridden other than for a temporary illness. The Hospice Care Waiver granted by the Department will permit the retention in a facility of a designated maximum number of terminally ill residents who are receiving hospice services from a hospice agency.
Gender Expression
A person's appearance and behavior, whether or not these are stereotypically associated with the person's sex assigned at birth.
Gender Identity
A person's stated identification with a sex, regardless of whether the stated sex is consistent with the person's physical appearance, surgical history, genitalia, legal sex, sex assigned at birth, or name and sex, as they appear in medical records, and regardless of any statement by any other person, including a family member, conservator, or legal representative, that is contrary.
Gender-Nonconforming
A person whose gender expression does not conform to stereotypical expectations of how a man or woman should appear or behave.
Guardian
A person appointed by the Superior Court pursuant to Probate Code section 1500 et seq. to care for the person, or person and estate, of a child
Healing Wounds
Include cuts, stage one and two pressure injuries and incisions with the affected area returning to its normal state. They may involve breaking or laceration of the skin and usually damage to the underlying tissues.
Health Care Provider
Those persons described in Probate Code section 4621: "an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession."
Health Care Surrogate Desicion Maker
An individual who participates in health care decision making on behalf of an incapacitated resident. Health care surrogate decision maker may be formally appointed (e.g., by the resident in a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care or by a court in a conservatorship proceeding) or, in the absence of a formal appointment, may be recognized by virtue of a relationship with the resident (e.g., the resident's next of kin). The licensee or any staff member of the facility shall not be appointed health care surrogate decision maker. [Show Less]