Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 13-D - The Public Health Code of the State of Connecticut › Chapter IV - Hospitals, Child Day Care Centers, Other Institutions and Children's General Hospitals › Coordination, Assessment and Monitoring Agency Licensure Regulations › Section 19-13-D105 - Assisted living services agency

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
As used in this section:
(1) "Agency" means assisted living services
				  agency.
(2) "Assisted living
				  services" for the purpose of this section only means nursing services and
				  assistance with activities of daily living provided to clients living within a
				  managed residential community having supportive services that encourage clients
				  primarily age fifty-five (55) or older to maintain a maximum level of
				  independence. Routine household services may be provided as assisted living
				  services by the assisted living services agency or by the managed residential
				  community as defined in subsection (a) (13). These services provide an
				  alternative for elderly persons who require some help or aid with activities of
				  daily living as described in subsection (a) (4) or nursing services in order to
				  remain in their private residential units within the managed residential
				  community.
(3) "Assisted living
				  services agency" means an entity that provides assisted living
				  services.
(4) "Assisted living
				  aide" means an unlicensed person who has successfully completed a training and
				  competency evaluation program in accordance with Section
				  19-13-D8t(1),
				  Section
				  19-13-D69(d)
				  (2) or Section
				  19-13-D83(b)
				  of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. An assisted living aide may
				  assist clients with one or more of the following activities of daily living:
				  ambulation, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, oral hygiene,
				  transfers, exercise and supervision of self administration of
				  medications.
(5) "Client" means the
				  recipient of the assisted living services provided by licensed nurses or
				  assisted living aides.
(6) "Client
				  service program" means a written schedule of assisted living services to be
				  provided to, reviewed with and agreed to by a client or client
				  representative.
(7) "Commissioner"
				  means the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health and Addiction
				  Services, or the commissioner's representative.
(8) "Community" means managed residential
				  community.
(9) "Core services"
				  means the services described in subsection (c) (3) of this section which shall
				  be made available in order for an assisted living services agency, for the
				  purpose of this section only, to provide services within a managed residential
				  community.
(10) "Department" means
				  the Connecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services.
(11) "Full time" means on duty a minimum of
				  thirty-five (35) hours per workweek.
(12) "Licensed nurse" means a registered
				  nurse or licensed practical nurse licensed under chapter 378 of the Connecticut
				  General Statutes.
(13) "Managed
				  residential community" means a facility consisting of private residential units
				  that provides a managed group living environment, including housing and
				  services primarily for persons age fifty-five (55) or older.
(14) "Primary agency" means an assisted
				  living services agency that contracts for the services of other organizations,
				  agencies or individuals who provide care or services to its clients.
(15) "Private residential unit" means a
				  living environment belonging to a tenant(s) that includes a full bathroom
				  within the unit including a water closet, lavatory, tub or shower bathing unit
				  and access to facilities and equipment for the preparation and storage of
				  food.
(16) "Self administration of
				  medications" means a client taking medication in accordance with directions for
				  use and includes:
(A) the client removing an
				  individual dose from a container of medications that have been ordered by a
				  physician or health care practitioner with the statutory authority to prescribe
				  medications and dispensed by a pharmacy or purchased over-the-counter by or
				  under the direction of the client; or
(B) the client taking an individual or
				  multiple dose(s) of medications that have been prepared or prepoured by a
				  licensed nurse, family member or significant other and stored for client
				  administration in the client's home.
(17) "Tenant" means a person who either owns,
				  rents under a lease agreement or otherwise contracts for the use of the home
				  within a managed residential community in which that person resides.