Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 330 - SHELTERED CARE FACILITIES CODE › Subpart C - POLICIES › Section 330.710 - Resident Care Policies

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) The
				facility shall have written policies and procedures governing all services
				provided by the facility. The written policies and procedures shall be
				formulated with the involvement of the administrator. The written policies
				shall be followed in operating the facility and shall be reviewed at least
				annually by the Administrator. The policies shall comply with the Act and this
				Part.
b) All of the information
				contained in the policies shall be available for review by the Department,
				residents, staff and the public.
c)
				The written policies shall include, but are not limited to, the following
				provisions:
1) Admission, transfer and
				discharge of residents, including categories of residents accepted and not
				accepted, residents that will be transferred or discharged, transfers within
				the facility from one room to another, and other types of transfers.
2) Resident care services including physician
				services, emergency services, personal care services, activity services,
				dietary services and social services.
3)
A policy to identify, assess, and
				develop strategies to control risk of injury to residents and nurses and other
				health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning,
				or movement of a resident. The policy shall establish a process that, at a
				minimum, includes all of the following:
A)
Analysis of the risk of injury to
				residents and nurses and other health care workers, taking into account the
				resident handling needs of the resident populations served by the facility and
				the physical environment in which the resident handling and movement
				occurs.
B)
Education and training of nurses and other direct resident care
				providers in the identification, assessment, and control of risks of injury to
				residents and nurses and other health care workers during resident handling and
				on safe lifting policies and techniques and current lifting
				equipment.
C)
Evaluation of alternative ways to reduce risks associated with resident
				handling, including evaluation of equipment and the
				environment.
D)
Restriction, to the extent feasible with existing equipment and aids,
				of manual resident handling or movement of all or most of a resident's weight,
				except for emergency, life-threatening, or otherwise exceptional
				circumstances.
E)
Procedures for a nurse to refuse to perform or be involved in resident
				handling or movement that the nurse, in good faith, believes will expose a
				resident or nurse or other health care worker to an unacceptable risk of
				injury.
F)
Development of strategies to control risk of injury to residents and
				nurses and other health care workers associated with the lifting, transferring,
				repositioning, or movement of a resident.
G)
Consideration of the feasibility
				of incorporating resident handling equipment or the physical space and
				construction design needed to incorporate that equipment
when
developing architectural plans for construction or remodeling of a
				facility or unit of a facility in which resident handling and movement
				occurs.
H)
Fostering and maintaining resident safety, dignity, self-determination,
				and choice.
(Section 3-206.05 of the Act)