Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 18 - Assisted Living Residence Administrators › Section 216-RICR-40-05-18.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in this Part the following
				  terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act"
				  means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-17.4, entitled "An Act Relating to Assisted
				  Living."
2. "Administrator" means
				  any person who has responsibility for day to day administration or operation of
				  an assisted living residence.
3.
				  "Assisted living residence" means a publicly or privately operated residence
				  that provides directly or indirectly by means of contracts or arrangements
				  personal assistance to meet the resident's changing needs and preferences,
				  lodging, and meals to two (2) or more adults who are unrelated to the licensee
				  or administrator, excluding however, any privately operated establishment or
				  facility licensed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-17, and those
				  facilities licensed by or under the jurisdiction of the Department of
				  Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, the Department
				  of Children, Youth, and Families, or any other state agency. The Department
				  shall develop levels of licensure for assisted living residences within this
				  definition as provided in R.I. Gen. Laws §
											23-17.4-6.
				  Assisted living residences include sheltered care homes, and board and care
				  residences or any other entity by any other name providing the services listed
				  in this subdivision which meet the definition of assisted living
				  residences.
4. "Board" means the
				  Assisted Living Residence Administrator Certification Board established
				  pursuant to the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §
											23-17.4-21.1.
5. "Certification" means the same meaning as
				  "licensure."
6. "Contact hours"
				  means hours acquired through attendance or participation at programs that
				  provide for direct interaction between faculty and participants and may include
				  lectures, symposia, live teleconferences or workshops.
7. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Health.
8. "Director"
				  means the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health.
9. "Disqualifying information" means
				  information produced by a criminal records review pertaining to conviction, for
				  the following crimes will result in a letter to the employee and employer
				  disqualifying the applicant from said employment: murder, voluntary
				  manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, first degree sexual assault, second
				  degree sexual assault, third degree sexual assault, assault on persons sixty
				  (60) years of age or older, child abuse, assault with intent to commit
				  specified felonies (murder, robbery, rape, burglary, or the abominable and
				  detestable crime against nature), felony assault, patient abuse, neglect or
				  mistreatment of patients, burglary, first degree arson, robbery, felony drug
				  offenses, larceny or felony banking law violations.
10. "Licensing agency" means the Rhode Island
				  Department of Health.
11.
				  "Non-contact hours" means internet courses, correspondence courses, tapes, or
				  other continuing education programs that do not provide for direct interaction
				  between faculty and the participant.