Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part I - General Administration › Subpart 3 - Licensing and Certification › Chapter 72 - Forensic Supervised Transitional Residential and Aftercare Facilities Licensing Standards › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section I-7203 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Activities of Daily Living
(
ADLs
)
-
the functions or tasks which are
						performed by an individual in a typical day, either independently or with
						supervision/assistance. Activities of daily living may include, but are not
						limited to, bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, walking, transferring and/or
						toileting.
Administrator
-the person responsible for
						the on-site, daily implementation and supervision of the overall facilitys
						operation commensurate with the authority conferred by the governing
						body.
Assistance with Activities of Daily
						Living
-services that provide assistance with activities of daily
						living. Such assistance may be the actual performance of the task for the
						individual, or may provide hands-on assist with the performance of the tasks,
						or may be supervision and prompting to allow the individual to self-perform
						such tasks.
Behavior
Management
-techniques, measures,
interventions and procedures applied in a systematic
						fashion to promote positive behavioral or functional change which fosters the
						client's self-control, and to prevent or interrupt a client's behavior which
						threatens harm to the client or others.
Cessation of Business
-FSTRA is
						non-operational and/or has stopped offering or providing services to the
						community.
Department
-the Louisiana Department of
						Health (LDH).
Division of Administrative Law (DAL)
-the
						administrative law tribunal authorized by law to hear and decide the
						administrative appeals for the department.
Forensic Clients
-persons transitioned
						from a forensic facility established pursuant to
						R.S.
						28:25.1(A) or (B).
Forensic Psychiatrist
-a physician,
						currently licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana, who:
1. signs the order admitting the individual to the FSTRA
						facility;
2. maintains overall responsibility for the clients
						medical management; and
3. is readily available for consultation and
						collaboration with the FSTRA facility staff.
Forensic Supervised Transitional Residential and
						Aftercare Facility-
a facility that provides supervised transitional
						residential and aftercare services to forensic clients, including persons who
						are court ordered or who are on court ordered conditional release status. A
						forensic supervised transitional residential and aftercare facility shall
						provide clients, referred by state operated forensic facilities/hospitals and
						under court order or court ordered forensic conditional release, with
						individualized services to develop daily living skills and to prepare for
						vocational adjustment and reentry into the community.
Health Standards Section (HSS)
-the
						licensing and certification section of the Louisiana Department of
						Health.
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
						(IADLs)
-the functions or tasks that are not necessary for fundamental
						functioning but assist an individual to be able to live in a community setting.
						These are activities such as light housekeeping, food preparation and storage,
						grocery shopping, laundry, reminders to take medication, scheduling medical
						appointments, arranging transportation to medical appointments and accompanying
						the client to medical appointments.
Licensee-
the person, partnership,
						company, corporation, association, organization, professional entity or other
						entity to whom a license is granted by the licensing agency and upon whom rests
						the ultimate responsibility and authority for the conduct of and services
						provided by the FSTRA facility.
Non-Operational
-the FSTRA facility is
						not open for continuous business operation 24 hours a day, 7 days per week as
						stated on the licensing application and business location signage.
Secure Community Supervised
						Transitional/Residential Facility
-a secure residential facility within
						the community that provides individualized services to persons who are under a
						court order or court ordered forensic conditional release and who are referred
						by a state forensic hospital or state forensic psychiatric unit. These services
						enable such persons to develop daily living skills and to prepare for
						vocational adjustment and reentry into the community.
Secure Forensic Facility
-a secure
						residential facility located on the grounds of a state owned/operated hospital
						that provides individualized services, including personal care services and
						medication administration, to persons who are under a court order or court
						ordered forensic conditional release and who are referred by a state forensic
						hospital or state forensic psychiatric unit. These services prepare such
						persons for transition to a less restrictive environment before transitioning
						to the community.
Therapeutic
-process of intervention, in
						accordance with the treatment plan, that has the desirable effect of modifying
						or redirecting a clients behavior and/or emotional state in a positive or
						beneficial manner.
Treatment Plan
-a comprehensive plan
						developed by the facility for each client that includes the services each
						client needs. It shall include the provision of medical/psychiatric, nursing
						and psychosocial services.
Unit
-an integral, separate, segregated
						living space utilized only by either male, or by female clients, and who reside
						in that space of the licensed facility. Living spaces include the clients
						sleeping quarters and bathroom facilities.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with R.S.
						28:31-28:37.