Definitions
 1. In this Regulation, “adverse drug reaction” means a harmful and unintended response by a resident to a drug or combination of drugs which occurs at doses normally used or tested for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a disease or the modification of an organic function; (“réaction indésirable à un médicament”) “air conditioning” means a mechanical cooling system that can maintain cool temperatures, including in peak summer conditions, and includes central air conditioning with in-room supply air ducts, portable air conditioning units, window air conditioning units, split air conditioning, package type air conditioning and variable refrigerant flow units, or a combination of any of these systems; (“climatisation”) “appropriate placement co-ordinator” means the appropriate placement co-ordinator as defined in subsection 51 (2) of the Act; (“coordonnateur des placements compétent”) “business day” means a day that is not a holiday; (“jour ouvrable”) “cannabis” has the same meaning as in subsection 2 (1) of the Cannabis Act (Canada); (“cannabis”) “casual absence” means an absence of a resident from a long-term care home for a period not exceeding 48 hours for a purpose other than receiving medical or psychiatric care or undergoing medical or psychiatric assessment; (“absence occasionnelle”) “class A beds” means beds that, on the day before this definition comes into force, were class A beds as defined in subsection 187 (18) of the former Act; (“lits de catégorie A”) “college of applied arts and technology” means a college of applied arts and technology established under the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002; (“collège d’arts appliqués et de technologie”) “communicable disease” means a communicable disease within the meaning of the Health Protection and Promotion Act; (“maladie transmissible”) “continuum of care applicant”, in relation to a continuum of care long-term care home, means a person who resides in a project set out opposite the long-term care home in Column 2 of the Continuum of Care Table and has resided there as of a date earlier than July 1, 1994; (“auteur d’une demande de continuum de soins”) “continuum of care long-term care home” means a long-term care home set out in Column 1 of the Continuum of Care Table; (“foyer de soins de longue durée offrant un continuum de soins”) “Continuum of Care Table” means the table available from the Ministry that is titled “Continuum of Care Table” and that is dated March 2010; (“tableau de continuum de soins”) “controlled substance” means a controlled substance within the meaning of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
(Canada); (“substance désignée”) “degree granting institution” means an institution, other than a college of applied arts and technology, private career college, Indigenous Institute or publicly assisted university, that has, (a)  the authority to grant degrees by an Act of the Legislature or an Act of the Parliament of Canada, or (b)  the consent of the Minister of Colleges and Universities under section 4 of the Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000 to grant the particular degree; (“établissement attribuant des grades”) “development agreement” means an agreement to develop, redevelop or retrofit a long-term care home or beds in a long-term care home; (“entente de développement”) “disease of public health significance” means a disease of public health significance within the meaning of the Health Protection and Promotion Act; (“maladie importante sur le plan de la santé publique”) “exempted out of province health professional” means an out of province nurse, out of province physician or out of province respiratory therapist; (“professionnel de la santé exempté hors province”) “fiscal year” means the period beginning on April 1 in one year and ending on March 31 in the subsequent year; (“exercice) “food handler training” means a program of food safety training that is provided by a local board of health or agency of a board of health or that the Ministry of Health has recognized as being equivalent to the food safety training standards established by that Ministry; (“formation à l’intention des manipulateurs d'aliments”) “food service worker” means a member of staff in a long-term care home who is routinely involved in the storage, preparation, cooking, delivery or serving of food, the cleaning of kitchen equipment and utensils or the maintaining of the kitchen and serveries in a clean and sanitary condition, but does not include a nutrition manager for the home; (“préposé au service d’alimentation”) “former Act” means the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007; (“ancienne loi”) “glucagon” means a manufactured product that can be administered to raise glucose levels in the blood; (“glucagon”) “holiday” means, (a)  Saturday, (b)  Sunday, (c)  New Year’s Day, (d)  Family Day, (e)  Good Friday, (f)  Victoria Day, (g)  Canada Day, (h)  the first Monday in August, (i)  Labour Day, (j)  Thanksgiving Day, (k)  Christmas Day, (l)  Boxing Day, (m)  if New Year’s Day or Canada Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday, (n)  if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday and Tuesday, (o)  if Christmas Day falls on a Friday, the following Monday, and (p)  any special holiday proclaimed by the Governor General or the Lieutenant Governor; (“jour férié”) “Indigenous Institute” means an Ingenious Institute prescribed for the purposes of section 6 of the Indigenous Institutes Act, 2017; (“établissement autochtone”) “interim bed” means a bed in a long-term care home under the interim bed short-stay program; (“lit provisoire”) “licensed bed capacity” means the total licensed or approved beds in the home, excluding, (a)  beds that are not available for occupancy under a written permission of the Director under subsection 107 (3) of the Act, and (b)  beds that are the subject of a temporary emergency licence under clause 115 (1) (b) of the Act; (“capacité en lits autorisés”) “long-stay program” means a program which is not a short-stay program; (“programme de séjour de longue durée”) “long-stay resident” means a resident who has been admitted to a long-stay program; (“résident en séjour de longue durée”) “medical absence” means an absence of a resident from a long-term care home for the purpose of receiving medical care other than psychiatric care or for the purpose of undergoing medical assessment other than psychiatric assessment; (“absence médicale”) “medical cannabis” means cannabis that is produced or obtained for medical purposes in accordance with Part 14 of the Cannabis Regulations (Canada) or in accordance with a court order; (“cannabis thérapeutique”) “medication incident” means a preventable event associated with the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, packaging, storing, labelling, preparing, administering or distributing of a drug, the monitoring of the use of the drug by the resident or the transcribing of a prescription, and includes, (a)  an act of omission or commission, whether or not it results in harm, injury or death to a resident, or (b)  a near miss event where an incident does not reach a resident but had it done so, harm, injury or death could have resulted; (“incident lié à un médicament”) “Ontario post-secondary institution” means, (a)  an Indigenous Institute, (b)  a private career college, (c)  a college of applied arts and technology, (d)  a publicly assisted university, or (e)  a degree granting institution; (“établissement d’enseignement postsecondaire de l’Ontario”) “out of province nurse” means an out of province registered nurse in the general class, out of province registered nurse in the extended class or out of province registered practical nurse; (“infirmière ou infirmier hors province”) “out of province physician” means a person who is exempted from subsections 9 (1) and (3) of the Medicine Act, 1991 by a regulation made under that Act; (“médecin hors province”) “out of province registered nurse in the extended class” means a person who is exempted from subsections 11 (1) and (5) of the Nursing Act, 1991 by a regulation made under that Act and who holds, in another Canadian jurisdiction, the equivalent of a certificate of registration in the extended class for registered nurses in Ontario; (“infirmière autorisée ou infirmier autorisé de la catégorie supérieure hors province”) “out of province registered nurse in the general class” means a person who is exempted from subsections 11 (1) and (5) of the Nursing Act, 1991 by a regulation made under that Act and who holds, in another Canadian jurisdiction, the equivalent of a certificate of registration in the general class for registered nurses in Ontario; (“infirmière autorisée ou infirmier autorisé de la catégorie générale hors province”) “out of province registered practical nurse” means a person who is exempted from subsections 11 (1) and (5) of the Nursing Act, 1991 by a regulation made under that Act and who holds, in another Canadian jurisdiction, the equivalent of a certificate of registration in the general class for registered practical nurses in Ontario; (“infirmière auxiliaire autorisée ou infirmier auxiliaire autorisé hors province”) “out of province respiratory therapist” means a person who is exempted from subsections 9 (1) and (2) of the Respiratory Therapy Act, 1991 by a regulation made under that Act; (“thérapeute respiratoire hors province”) “pharmacist” means a member of the Ontario College of Pharmacists who holds a certificate of registration as a pharmacist; (“pharmacien”) “pharmacy service provider” means the pharmacy service provider referred to in section 128; (“fournisseur de services pharmaceutiques”) “prescribed”, when used with reference to a drug, means that a prescriber has directed the dispensing of the drug to the resident; (“prescrit”) “prescriber” means a person who is authorized under the laws of a province or territory of Canada to give a prescription within the scope of their practice of a health discipline; (“prescripteur”) “prescription” means a direction from a prescriber directing the dispensing of any drug or drugs for a resident; (“ordonnance”) “private accommodation”, in relation to a long-term care home, means lodging in a private room in the home, housekeeping services, maintenance and use of the home, dietary services, laundry and linen services, administrative services and nutritional support; (“hébergement individuel”) “private career college” means a private career college within the meaning of subsection 1 (1) of the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005; (“collège privé d’enseignement professionnel”) Note: On January 1, 2024, the day section 1 of Schedule 29 to the Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 comes into force, the definition of “private career college” in section 1 of Ontario Regulation 246/22 is revoked and the following substituted: (See: O. Reg. 363/23, s. 1) “career college” means a career college within the meaning of subsection 1 (1) of the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005; (“collège d’enseignement professionnel”) “private room” means, (a)  in the case of a long-term care home to which a design manual was applicable under a development agreement to which the home was subject, a room with one bed that has a private ensuite washroom, other than a room that is designated by a licensee as a standard room, or (b)  in the case of all other long-term care homes, a room with one bed, other than a room that is designated by a licensee as a standard room; (“chambre individuelle”) “psychiatric absence” means an absence of a resident from a long-term care home for the purpose of receiving psychiatric care or undergoing psychiatric assessment; (“absence psychiatrique”) “publicly assisted university” means a university that receives regular and ongoing operating funds from the government of Ontario for the purpose of post-secondary education; (“université financée par les fonds publics”) “record” means a record as defined in subsection 150 (9) of the Act; (“dossier”) “recreational cannabis” means cannabis other than, (a)  a drug containing cannabis to which the Cannabis Regulations (Canada) apply, (b)  medical cannabis, (c)  cannabis that is identified in the regulations under the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act as being a drug for the purposes of that Act, (d)  cannabis that is a natural health product to which the Natural Health Products Regulations
(Canada) apply, (e)  industrial hemp within the meaning of the Industrial Hemp Regulations (Canada), and (f)  a derivative or a product made from a derivative that is exempt from the application of the Cannabis Act
(Canada) under the Industrial Hemp Regulations (Canada); (“cannabis récréatif”) “registered dietitian” means a member of the College of Dietitians of Ontario who holds a temporary or general certificate of registration under the Dietetics Act, 1991; (“diététiste agréé”) “registered nursing staff” means those members of staff who are, (a)  registered nurses, or (b)  registered practical nurses; (“personnel infirmier autorisé”) “regulated health profession” means a health profession set out in Schedule 1 to the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991; (“profession de la santé réglementée”) “related temporary long-term care home” means, where all or some of the beds in a long-term care home are to be temporarily or permanently closed, another long-term care home, if any, that is operated by the same licensee and is to provide beds to residents of the original long-term care home on a temporary basis until beds in the re-opened long-term care home or replacement long-term care home are available for those residents; (“foyer de soins de longue durée temporaire lié”) “re-opened long-term care home” means, where all or some of the beds in a long-term care home are to be temporarily closed, the same long-term care home once those beds are re-opened; (“foyer de soins de longue durée réouvert”) “replacement long-term care home” means, where all or some of the beds in a long-term care home are to be permanently closed, the new long-term care home, if any, to be operated by the same licensee and to serve as a replacement for the beds being closed in the original long-term care home; (“foyer de soins de longue durée de remplacement”) “responsive behaviours” means behaviours that often indicate, (a)  an unmet need in a person, whether cognitive, physical, emotional, social, environmental or other, or (b)  a response to circumstances within the social or physical environment that may be frustrating, frightening or confusing to a person; (“comportements réactifs”) “semi-private accommodation”, in relation to a long-term care home, means lodging in a semi-private room in the home, housekeeping services, maintenance and use of the home, dietary services, laundry and linen services, administrative services and nutritional support; (“hébergement à deux lits”) “semi-private room” means, (a)  in the case of a long-term care home to which a design manual was applicable under a development agreement to which the home was subject, a room with one bed connected to another room with one bed by an ensuite washroom, other than a room that is designated by a licensee as a standard room, or (b)  in the case of all other long-term care homes, a room with two beds, other than a room that is designated by a licensee as a standard room; (“chambre à deux lits”) “severe hypoglycemia” means an incident where a resident is found to have a blood glucose level less than 2.8 millimoles per litre and the resident is conscious; (“hypoglycémie sévère”) “short-stay program” means a program in which a person is admitted to a long-term care home for a definite number of days; (“programme de séjour de courte durée”) “short-stay resident” means a resident who has been admitted to a short-stay program; (“résident en séjour de courte durée”) “standard room” means, (a)  in the case of a long-term care home to which a design manual was applicable under a development agreement to which the home was subject, a room with one or two beds that affords privacy to each resident, that has an ensuite washroom, and that is designated by a licensee as a standard room, or (b)  in the case of all other long-term care homes, (i)  a room with three or more beds, (ii)  a room with two beds that is occupied by spouses on or after April 1, 2011, so long as the room continues to be occupied by the spouses, or (iii)  a room with less than three beds that is designated by a licensee as a standard room; (“chambre standard”) “unresponsive hypoglycemia” means an incident where a resident is found to have a blood glucose level less than 2.8 millimoles per litre and the resident is unconscious; (“hypoglycémie ne répondant pas à un traitement”) “vacation absence” means an absence of a resident from a long-term care home for a period exceeding 48 hours for a purpose other than receiving medical or psychiatric care or undergoing medical or psychiatric assessment; (“absence pour vacances”) “veterans’ priority access bed” means a bed that has been designated as a veterans’ priority access bed under section 57 of the Act. (“lit d’accès prioritaire aux anciens combattants”) O. Reg. 246/22, s. 1; O. Reg. 66/23, s. 1; O. Reg. 202/23, s. 1.