California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 6 - Licensing of Community Care Facilities › Chapter 8 - Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFE) › Article 1 - Definitions and Forms › Section 87101 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
(1) "Administrator" means the individual
				  designated by the licensee to act in behalf of the licensee in the overall
				  management of the facility. The licensee, if an individual, and the
				  administrator may be one and the same person.
(2) "Admission Agreement" includes all
				  documents that a resident or resident's representative must sign at the time
				  of, or as a condition of, admission.
(3) "Adult" means a person who is eighteen
				  (18) years of age or older.
(4)
				  "Adult protective services agency" means a county welfare department, as
				  defined in Welfare and Institutions Code section
				  15610.13.
(5) "Advance Health Care Directive" means a
				  written instruction that relates to the provision of health care when the
				  individual is incapacitated. Advance directives include, but are not limited
				  to, a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, an Individual Health Care
				  Instruction, a Request to Forego Resuscitative Measures, or a Do Not
				  Resuscitate Form. In an advance directive, a person states choices for medical
				  treatment and/or designates who should make treatment choices if the person
				  creating the advance directive should lose decision-making capacity.
(6) "Allowable Health Condition" means any
				  health condition that the licensee is allowed to care for either in accordance
				  with a specific regulation, or with an exception approved by the licensing
				  agency. This includes restricted health conditions as specified in Section
				  87612, Restricted Health
				  Conditions.
(7) "Ambulatory Person"
				  means a person who is capable of demonstrating the mental competence and
				  physical ability to leave a building without assistance of any other person or
				  without the use of any mechanical aid in case of an emergency.
(8) "Automated External Defibrillator" (AED)
				  means a light-weight, portable device used to administer an electric shock
				  through the chest wall to the heart. Built-in computers assess the patient's
				  heart rhythm, determine whether defibrillation (electrical shock) is needed and
				  then administer the shock. Audible and/or visual prompts guide the user through
				  the process.
(9) "Applicant" means
				  any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, county, city,
				  public agency or other government entity that has made application for a
				  residential care facility for the elderly license, administrator certificate,
				  or special permit.
(10)
				  "Appropriately Skilled Professional" means an individual that has training and
				  is licensed to perform the necessary medical procedures prescribed by a
				  physician. This includes but is not limited to the following: Registered Nurse
				  (RN), Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational
				  Therapist (OT) and Respiratory Therapist (RT). These professionals may include,
				  but are not limited to, those persons employed by a home health agency, the
				  resident, or facilities and who are currently licensed in
				  California.