Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 411 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, AGING AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES › Division 60 - COVID-19 TESTING IN LICENSED ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, NURSING FACILITIES AND RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES › Section 411-060-0005 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Assisted
			 Living Facility" refers to entities licensed under rules contained in Oregon
			 Administrative Rule chapter 411, division 054.
(2) "Associated Staff" means individuals
			 providing direct care services to facility residents via a contractual
			 relationship with the facility such as supplemental staffing agencies.
			 Associated staff also includes volunteers, hospice personnel, caregivers who
			 provide care and service to residents on behalf of the facility, individuals
			 providing environmental (housekeeping, laundry) or food services via a
			 contractual relationship with the facility, and students in the facility's
			 nurse aide training program or from affiliated academic institutions.
(3) "Associated Staffing Provider" means a
			 separate legal entity, including an entity that has contracted with a Facility
			 to provide staffing for the Facility, which employs Associated Staff.
(4) "Authority" means the Oregon Health
			 Authority.
(5) "COVID-19" refers to
			 Coronavirus disease 2019, which is defined as an illness caused by a novel
			 coronavirus now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
			 (SARS-CoV-2).
(6) "Department"
			 means the Department of Human Services.
(7) "Facility" means an Assisted Living
			 Facility, Nursing Facility and Residential Care Facility licensed by the Oregon
			 Department of Human Services.
(8)
			 "Facility Staff" means anyone directly employed by the Facility who is
			 scheduled, or anticipated, to work at the Facility in the future.
(9) "Hospital" means Hospital as defined in
			 ORS 442.015.
(10) "Isolation" means the separation of sick
			 people with, or presumed to have, a contagious disease, including COVID-19,
			 from people who do not have that contagious disease.
(11) "Legal Representative" means that term
			 as defined in OAR 411-085-0005.
(12) "Local Public Health Authority" means
			 Local Public Health Authority (LPHA) as defined in ORS
			 431.003.
(13) "Nursing Facility" means an entity
			 licensed by the Department pursuant to Oregon Administrative Rule chapter 411,
			 division 085 to 089.
(14)
			 "Positivity Rate" means the percentage of people who test positive for COVID-19
			 of those overall, who have been tested in a defined group in a defined period
			 of time.
(15) "Quarantine" means
			 separation and restriction of the movement of people who have been exposed to a
			 contagious disease, including COVID-19, to see if they become infected with the
			 contagious disease.
(16) "Resident"
			 is defined as an individual who has been admitted or moved in and is receiving
			 room, board, care and services on a 24-hour basis in a Facility.
(17) "Residential Care Facility" means an
			 entity licensed under rules contained in Oregon Administrative Rule chapter
			 411, division 054.
(18) "Routine
			 Testing" means regular, proactive testing of a defined population such as
			 Facility Staff and Associated Staff to identify the presence of the COVID-19
			 virus in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.
(19) "Suspect COVID-19" refers to a person
			 with a new onset of symptoms consistent with COVID-19, including fever or
			 chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or
			 body aches, headache, new loss of taste, sore throat, nausea or vomiting, or
			 diarrhea, without a more likely alternative diagnosis.
(20) "Testing" refers to a testing process to
			 detect SARS-CoV-2 by a laboratory certified by the US Clinical Laboratory
			 Improvement Amendments program (CLIA) and that meets Authority (OHA) and
			 Department testing criteria.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  441.025,
				  441.055,
				  441.615,
				  441.630,
				  441.637,
				  441.650,
				  443.400-443.455,
				  443.991
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  441.025,
				  441.055,
				  441.615,
				  441.630,
				  441.637,
				  441.650,
				  443.400-443.455,
				  443.991