New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 43D - STANDARDS FOR LICENSURE OF PEDIATRIC COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL HOMES › Subchapter 1 - DEFINITIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS › Section 8:43D-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics" or "AND" means the
				  organization of dietetic professionals committed to improving the nation's health
				  and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education, and advocacy,
				  which may be reached by regular mail at 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000,
				  Chicago, Illinois 60606-6995, website
www.eatright.org
, and by telephone at (800) 877-1600
				  or (312) 899-0040.
"Activities of daily living (ADL)" means mobility, transferring,
				  walking, grooming, bathing, dressing and undressing, eating, and toileting, which
				  may be performed by a resident independently, or under the supervision of, or with
				  partial or total assistance from, the staff of the pediatric community transitional
				  home.
"Administrator" means the person who is responsible for operating
				  the facility on a day to day basis.
"Admission agreement" means a document developed by the facility
				  and signed by both a facility representative and the resident or the resident's
				  responsible party prior to admission to the facility. This agreement clearly and in
				  plain English describes all services to be provided to the resident, the cost of the
				  services, additional services available and the cost of these, specification of the
				  time interval in which charges will not be increased, admission and discharge
				  criteria and discharge appeal mechanisms.
"Advanced practice nurse" means a person who is certified as an
				  advanced practice nurse by the New Jersey Board of Nursing in accordance with
				  N.J.S.A.
				  45:11-47.
"American Board of Medical Specialties" means the entity by that
				  name for which the contact information is American Board of Medical Specialties, 353
				  North Clark Street, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60654, telephone (312) 436-2600, website
www.abms.org
.
"American Osteopathic Association" means the entity by that name
				  for which the contact information is American Osteopathic Association, 142 East
				  Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611, telephone (800) 621-1773, website
www.osteopathic.org
.
"Application for New or Amended Acute Care Facility License
				  (CN-7)" is the form, incorporated herein by reference and set forth at Appendix A,
				  which an applicant for licensure as a pediatric community transitional care home
				  must complete and submit to the Department's Office of Certificate of Need and
				  Healthcare Facility Licensure in order to apply for a license prior to commencement
				  of new or expanded services and which is available electronically at:
www.nj.gov/health/forms
.
"Application for Waiver (CN-28)" is the form, incorporated herein
				  by reference and set forth at Appendix B, which a facility must complete and submit
				  to the Department in order to request a waiver of the rules established at N.J.A.C.
				  8:43D and which is available electronically at:
www.nj.gov/ health/forms
.
"Assessment and Survey Program" means the unit responsible for
				  conducting inspections of licensed health care facilities within the Division of
				  Health Facility Survey and Field Operations of the Health Systems Branch of the
				  Department, for which the contact information is Assessment and Survey Program,
				  Division of Health Facility Survey and Field Operations, New Jersey Department of
				  Health, 120 Stockton Street, PO Box 367, Trenton, NJ 08625-0367, telephone (609)
				  292-9900.
"Available" means pertaining to equipment, present and ready for
				  immediate use; pertaining to personnel, means capable of being reached by telephone
				  24 hours per day.
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" or "CDC" means an
				  agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for which the
				  contact information for access to publications referred to in this chapter as the
				  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review or MMWR, is CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-90,
				  Atlanta, GA 30333, telephone (404) 498-1150, email mmwrq@cdc.gov, website
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
.
"Child care worker" means a person who has a high school diploma
				  or general equivalency diploma and is 18 years of age or older.
"Cleaning" means the removal, by scrubbing and washing, with hot
				  water, soap or detergent and/or vacuuming where appropriate, of infectious agents
				  and/or organic matter from surfaces on which and in which infectious agents may
				  survive or multiply.
"Commission on Dietetic Registration" or "CDR" means the
				  administratively autonomous credentialing agency for the Academy for Nutrition and
				  Dietetics (AND) that is responsible for establishing registration eligibility
				  requirements for AND's certification programs, for which the contact information is
				  CDR, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606, telephone (800)
				  877-1600 ext. 5500, and e-mail cdr@eatright.org.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department
				  of Health or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" means an illness, due to a specific
				  infectious agent or its toxic products, which occurs through transmission of that
				  agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host.
"Community agency" means a community agency as
				  N.J.A.C.
				  10:48A-1.3 defines that term.
"Conspicuously posted" means placed at a location within the
				  facility accessible to and in plain view to patients and the public.
"Contamination" means the presence of an infectious or toxic agent
				  in the air, on a body surface, or on or in clothes, bedding, instruments, dressings,
				  or other inanimate articles or substances, including water, milk, and food.
"Current" means up-to-date reflecting the present calendar day,
				  month and year.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Dietitian" means a person who:
1. Is credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic
				Registration as a registered dietitian;
2. Is eligible to become a registered dietitian in
				accordance with the criteria established by the Commission on Dietetic
				Registration;
3. Has a master's degree
				with a major concentration in foods, nutrition, food service, and/or food
				institution management, and has completed:
i. At
				least six months of full-time, or equivalent, experience in nutrition and/or food
				service management in a health care setting; or