California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 2 - Health and Welfare Agency-Department of Developmental Services Regulations › Chapter 3 - Community Services › Subchapter 4.2 - Intermediate Care Facility (Icf); Intermediate Care Facility/Developmentally Disabled (Icf/DD); Intermediate Care Facility/Developmentally Disabled-Habilitative (Icf/DD-H); Intermediate Care Facility/Developmentally Disabled-Nursing (Icf/DD-N); Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Monitoring Requirements › Article 1 - Definitions › Section 56101 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The following
					 definitions shall apply to the regulations set forth in this subchapter:
(1) "Consumer" means a person who has a
					 disability which meets the definition of "developmental disability" as
					 specified in Welfare and Institutions Code, Section
					 4512(d).
(2) "Consumer's Authorized Representative"
					 means a person who meets any of the qualifications for an "authorized
					 representative" as set forth in Welfare and Institutions Code Section
					 4701.6.
(3) "Facility Representative" means a person
					 who is employed or designated by the ICF, ICF/DD, ICF/DD-H, ICF/DD-N or SNF to
					 represent that facility.
(4)
					 "Immediate Danger" means an immediate and serious threat having a high
					 probability that serious harm or injury to the consumer's health and safety
					 could occur at any time, or already has occurred and may occur again if the
					 consumer(s) is not protected effectively from the harm or injury or the threat
					 to the consumer's health and safety is not removed.
(5) "Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)" means
					 an Intermediate Care Facility as defined in Health and Safety Code Section
					 1250(d).
(6) "Intermediate Care
					 Facility/Developmentally Disabled (ICF/DD)" means an Intermediate Care
					 Facility/Developmentally Disabled as defined in Health and Safety Code Section
					 1250(g).
(7) "Intermediate Care
					 Facility/Developmentally Disabled/Habilitative (ICF/DD-H)" means an
					 Intermediate Care Facility/Developmentally Disabled-Habilitative as defined in
					 Health and Safety Code Section
					 1250(e).
(8) "Intermediate Care
					 Facility/Developmentally Disabled/Nursing (ICF/DD-N)" means an Intermediate
					 Care Facility/Developmentally Disabled-Nursing as defined in Health and Safety
					 Code Section
					 1250(h).
(9) "Lacks hazard awareness and impulse
					 control" means the consumer's planning team has determined that the consumer
					 poses a risk of harm to himself or herself or others by wandering off or
					 running away from the residence and requires an enhancement to supervision
					 through the use of delayed egress devices and secured perimeters without which
					 the consumer would require placement in a more restrictive, locked residential
					 setting.
(10) "Lanterman Act
					 Individual Program Plan (IPP)" means a written plan for consumer services
					 developed by the consumer's planning team in accordance with the provisions of
					 Welfare and Institutions Code Sections
					 4646
					 and
					 4646.5.
(11) "Planning team" refers to the planning
					 team defined in subdivision (j) of Section
					 4512
					 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, which develops and reviews a consumer's
					 IPP through the planning process described in Sections
					 4646
					 and
					 4646.5
					 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(12) "Regional Center" means a private
					 nonprofit diagnostic, counseling and service coordination center for
					 developmentally disabled persons and their families which is established and
					 operated pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Sections
					 4620
					 through
					 4669.
(13) "Regional Center Representative" means a
					 person who is employed or designated by the regional center to represent that
					 agency.
(14) "Skilled Nursing
					 Facility (SNF)" means a skilled facility as defined in Title 22, California
					 Code of Regulations, Section
					 51121.