| (61) Seclusion--The involuntary separation of a resident
from other residents and the placement of the resident alone in an
area from which the resident is prevented from leaving.
(62) Service plan--A written description of the medical
care, supervision, or nonmedical care needed by a resident.
(63) Short-term acute episode--An illness of less than
30 days duration.
(64) Small facility--A facility licensed for 16 or
fewer residents.
(65) Staff--Employees of an assisted living facility.
(66) Standards--The minimum conditions, requirements,
and criteria established in this chapter with which a facility must
comply to be licensed under this chapter.
(67) State Ombudsman--Has the meaning given in 26 TAC §88.2.
(68) Terminal condition--A medical diagnosis, certified
by a physician, of an illness that will result in death in six months
or less.
(69) 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.
(70) Vaccine Preventable Diseases--The diseases included
in the most current recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices of the CDC.
(71) Willfully interfere--To act or not act to intentionally
prevent, interfere with, or impeded or to attempt to intentionally
prevent, interfere with, or impede.
(72) Working day--Any 24-hour period, Monday through
Friday, excluding state and federal holidays.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §92.2 adopted to be effective January 15, 2009, 34 TexReg 240; amended to be effective June 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 4471; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7877; amended to be effective January 1, 2012, 36 TexReg 9345; amended to be effective June 1, 2012, 37 TexReg 3876; amended to be effective January 6, 2014, 39 TexReg 90; amended to be effective July 21, 2016, 41 TexReg 5214; amended to be effective October 11, 2017, 42 TexReg 5510; amended to be effective April 5, 2018, 43 TexReg 2028 |
