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Historical Rule for the Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 40SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
PART 1DEPARTMENT OF AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES
CHAPTER 92LICENSING STANDARDS FOR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER AINTRODUCTION
RULE §92.2Definitions

  (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.


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

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