§ 58032. Residential Care Facility.

“Residential Care Facility” means a facility licensed as a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly or a residential care facility as defined in the California Health and Safety Code. Outside California, eligible providers are facilities licensed or certified by the appropriate state agency to provide ongoing care and related services sufficient to support needs resulting from an inability to perform Activities of Daily Living or Severe Cognitive Impairment or if no licensure or certification is required, facilities engaged primarily in providing on-going care and related services sufficient to support needs resulting from an inability to perform Activities of Daily Living or Severe Cognitive Impairment and which also:

(a) provide such care and services on a twenty four (24) hour a day basis; and

(b) have a trained ready-to-respond employee on duty in the facility at all times to provide such care and services; and

(c) provide three meals a day and accommodates special dietary needs; and

(d) have arrangements to ensure that residents receive the medical care services of a physician or nurse in case of emergency; and

(e) have appropriate methods and procedures to provide necessary assistance to residents in the management of prescribed medications.

HISTORY

1. New section filed 8-30-93 as an emergency; operative 8-30-93 (Register 93, No. 36). Submitted for printing only pursuant to section 22009, Welfare and Institutions Code.

2. Certificate of Compliance as to 8-30-93 order transmitted to OAL 12-30-93 and filed 1-28-94 (Register 94, No. 4).

3. Renumbering of former section 58032 to section 58034 and renumbering of former section 58030 to section 58032, including amendment of section and Note, filed 10-1-98 as an emergency; operative 10-1-98. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 22009(d) (Register 98, No. 41). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 1-29-99 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.

4. Certificate of Compliance as to 10-1-98 order transmitted to OAL 1-28-99 and filed 3-15-99 (Register 99, No. 12).

Note

Note: Authority cited: Section 22009(a), Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Section 10232.92, Insurance Code; and Section 22006, Welfare and Institutions Code.