(60)Safety--Protection from injury or loss of life
due to such conditions as fire, electrical hazard, unsafe building
or site conditions, and the hazardous presence of toxic fumes and
materials.
(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.
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 March 16, 2018
TRD-201801159 Karen Ray
Chief Counsel
Department of Aging and Disability Services
Effective date: April 5, 2018
Proposal publication date: January 12, 2018
For further information, please call: (512) 438-4356
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