Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 111 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH › Chapter 111-8 - HEALTHCARE FACILITY REGULATION › Subject 111-8-62 - PERSONAL CARE HOMES › Rule 111-8-62-.17 - Services

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) Personal
				assistance must be given to those residents who are unable to keep themselves
				neat and clean.
(2) Each home must
				provide sufficient activities to promote the physical, mental and social
				well-being of each resident.
(3)
				Each home must provide books, newspapers, and games for leisure time
				activities. Each home must encourage and offer assistance to residents who wish
				to participate in hobbies, music, arts and crafts, religion, games, sports,
				social, recreational and cultural activities available in the home and in the
				community.
(4) Each home must have
				at least one operable, non-pay telephone which is accessible at all times for
				emergency use by staff. Residents must have access to an operable, non-pay
				telephone in a private location, both to make and receive personal calls. The
				same telephone may meet all the requirements of this section.
(5) The daily living routine of the home must
				be such that a resident may spend the majority of his or her non-sleeping hours
				out of the resident's bedroom, if he or she so chooses.
(6) A home must not restrict a resident's
				free access to the common areas of the home unless the resident is living in a
				specialized memory care center. If the resident is residing in a specialized
				memory care center, unrestricted access to the common areas contained within
				the memory care center must be provided to the resident.
(7) A home must not lock the resident into or
				out of the resident's bedroom or private living space.
(8)
Resident Needs Assessment
.
				The home must complete an assessment of the resident at the time of admission
				and update as changes occur that addresses the resident's care needs taking
				into account the resident's family supports, the resident's functional capacity
				relative to the activities of daily living, physical care needs, medical
				information provided, cognitive and behavioral impairments, if any, and
				personal preferences relative to care needs.
(9)
Written Care Plan
. Utilizing
				the information acquired during the admission process and the move-in
				adjustment period, a home which provides proxy caregivers or memory care must
				develop the resident's individual written care plan within 14 days of admission
				and require staff to use the care plan as a guide for the delivery of care and
				services to the resident. The care plan must include the following:
(a) A description of the resident's care and
				social needs and the services to be provided, including frequency to address
				care and social needs.
(b)
				Resident's particular preferences regarding care, activities and
				interests.
(c) Specific behaviors
				to be addressed with interventions to be used.
(d) Any physician order or order of a nurse
				practitioner or physician assistant working under protocol or job description,
				respectively for assistive devices.
(e) Staff primarily responsible for
				implementing the care plan.
(f)
				Evidence of resident and family involvement in the development of the plan when
				appropriate.
(g) Evidence of the
				care plan being updated at least annually and more frequently where the needs
				of the resident change substantially.