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TITLE 40	SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
PART 1	DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES
CHAPTER 92	LICENSING STANDARDS FOR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER A	INTRODUCTION
RULE §92.2	Definitions
ISSUE	07/15/2016
ACTION	Final/Adopted

Preamble

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(54)Service plan--A written description of the medical care, supervision, or nonmedical care needed by a resident.

(55)Short-term acute episode--An illness of less than 30 days duration.

(56)Small facility--A facility licensed for 16 or fewer residents.

(57)Staff--Employees of an assisted living facility.

(58)Standards--The minimum conditions, requirements, and criteria established in this chapter with which a facility must comply to be licensed under this chapter.

(59)Terminal condition--A medical diagnosis, certified by a physician, of an illness that will result in death in six months or less.

(60)Universal precautions--An approach to infection control in which blood, any body fluids visibly contaminated with blood, and all body fluids in situations where it is difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious for HIV, hepatitis B, and other blood-borne pathogens.

(61)Vaccine Preventable Diseases--The diseases included in the most current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC.

(62)Working day--Any 24-hour period, Monday through Friday, excluding state and federal holidays.

The agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed the adoption and found it to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on July 1, 2016

TRD-201603328

Lawrence Hornsby

General Counsel

Department of Aging and Disability Services

Effective date: July 21, 2016

Proposal publication date: January 15, 2016

For further information, please call: (512) 438-2235

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