North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 15A - Environmental Quality › Chapter 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH › Subchapter A - SANITATION › Section .1300 - SANITATION OF HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES, ADULT CARE HOMES, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS › Section 18A .1301 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following definitions shall apply throughout this
					 Section:
(1) "Activity kitchen" means
				  a kitchen that is available to residents of an institution and their guests for
				  the purpose of preparing food for individual or group activities. Nothing in
				  this Section shall prohibit residents or employees of a residential care
				  facility, as that term is defined at
				  15A NCAC
				  18A .1601 or their guests from using an
				  activity kitchen when an institution's activity kitchen is in the same building
				  where a residential care facility is located.
(2) "Administrator" means the person
				  designated by the licensee to be responsible for the daily operation of the
				  institution.
(3) "Ancillary
				  kitchen" means a kitchen that is used by the institution's employees for meal
				  preparation and other work to support the dietary kitchen. Ancillary kitchens
				  shall meet the requirements of
				  15A NCAC
				  18A .2600.
(4) "Bed linens" means bed sheets,
				  pillowcases, mattress covers, blankets, and duvets covers.
(5) "Clean" means that an object or surface
				  has been made free of garbage, solid waste, soil, dust, hair, dander, food,
				  bodily fluids and secretions, and feces.
(6) "Department" means the North Carolina
				  Department of Health and Human Services.
(7) "Dietary kitchen" means the primary
				  kitchen in the institution that is used to provide meals and nutrition services
				  to the institution's residents, employees, and guests. Dietary kitchens shall
				  meet the requirements of
				  15A NCAC
				  18A .2600.
(8) "Disinfect" means a non-sporicidal
				  process used on inanimate surfaces to destroy or irreversibly inactivate fungi,
				  viruses, and bacteria by using an EPA registered disinfectant in accordance
				  with the disinfectant's product label.
(9) "EPA registered disinfectant" means a
				  disinfectant as defined at 40 C.F.R. 158.2203 that has been
				  registered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") in
				  accordance with 40 C.F.R.
				  152, which are hereby incorporated by
				  reference, including any subsequent amendments or editions, and available free
				  of charge at
https://www.ecfr.gov/
.
(10) "Garbage" means as defined at
				  G.S.
				  130A-290(7).
(11) "Good repair" means as defined at
				  15A NCAC
				  18A .2651(8). Items that are
				  in good repair shall operate in accordance with the manufacturer's
				  instructions.
(12) "Hand Hygiene
				  Program" means a written plan implemented in an institution in the absence of
				  hand washing facilities as set forth in this Section. The licensee or the
				  licensee's designee shall submit the hand hygiene program plan to the local
				  health department for the county in which the institution is located, serving
				  as the regulatory authority, for approval prior to implementing the hand
				  hygiene program. The regulatory authority shall notify the institution or the
				  institution's designee in writing of the decision to approve or not to approve
				  the hand hygiene program plan. In determining whether to approve the hand
				  hygiene program, the regulatory authority shall consider the following:
(a) the type and frequency of activities
				  carried out at the institution that involve employee or resident contact with
				  bodily fluids or secretions; and
(b) the number of handwashing facilities on
				  each wing or floor of an institution's building or buildings.