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Administrator - ✔✔manages the facility on behalf of the licensee. (may be the licensee) Advanced Health Care Directive - ✔✔written instruction on the provision of the resident if they're incapacitated Ambulatory Person - ✔✔resident is mentally competent and can leave a building in an emergency without help or medical aid Basic Services - ✔✔must provide the following basic services: safe and healthy living place, personal assistance and care, observation and supervision, planned activities, food service, arrangements for obtaining incidental medical and dental care California Clearance - ✔✔can't have felony or misdemeanor conviction Capacity - ✔✔max limit # of people allowed in care of a facility care and supervision - ✔✔includes assisting in dressing, bathing, medicines, transportation, storing/ distributing medicin, house rule maintenance, supervision of schedules and activities, supervision of resident's property and food intake/diet
certicate holder - ✔✔a person who has a current administrator's certificate regardless if they're actually employed as an administrator in a facility or not. DIFFERENT FROM CERTIFIED ADMINSTRATOR certified administrator - ✔✔administrator who has a current RCFE Certificate and is employed in a facility as an administrator Close Friend - ✔✔attached to another by feeling of personal regard as indicated by both parties involved community care facility - ✔✔any facility/place/building providing nonmedica care and supervision Conservator - ✔✔appointed by the superior court to care for the person or estate or person and estate of adult COnsultant - ✔✔person qualified to provide expert info on a subject Control Of property - ✔✔right to enter occupy and maintain the operation of the facility Criminal Record Clearance - ✔✔individual has BOTH California clearance and FBI Clearance Deficieny - ✔✔failure to comply with department regulations Serious Deficiencies - ✔✔-fire clearance, #/type of residents, telephone service, residents with prohibited health conditions, non ambulatory residents, restraints, safety, food storage, preparation and
Eldery Person - ✔✔over 60 years of age Evaluator - ✔✔department agent that is authorized by contract to license community care facilities Exception - ✔✔Variance to a specific regulation based on unique needs or circumstances of a specific resident or staff person. involves on person ( can't be applied to other individuals) existing facility - ✔✔means any facility operating under a valid license on the date of application for a new license Facility Hospice Care Waiver - ✔✔waiver from the department that permits the retention in a facility of a designated maxi number of terminally ill residents who are receiving hospice services from a hospice agency healing wounds - ✔✔includes cuts, stage one and two ulcers and incisions that are being treated by a professional Health care surrogate decision maker - ✔✔an individual who participates in health care decision making on behalf of an incapacitated resident. This is person is either by the court or resident or family but may not be a licensee or any staff member Health Condition Relocation oRder - ✔✔department gives written notice to licensee requiring the relocation of a resident because the resident has a health condition which can't be cared for within the limits of the license, requires inpatient care in a health facility, or has a prohibited health condition
Home Economist - ✔✔a person who has a BA or higher in home economics and specializes in food or nutrition or dietetics Hospice or Hospice Agency - ✔✔an entity that provides hospice services to terminally ill person, is medicare certified for hospice, and holds either a hospice license or a home health agency license from the CA department of Health sciences Interdisciplinary Team - ✔✔team that assist the Department in evaluating the need for relocating a resident of a residential care facility for the elderly when the resident has requested a review of the department's health condition relocation order. Team includes Department's nurse consultant and social worker License - ✔✔A Basic Permit to operate a residential care facility for the elderly Licensed Professional - ✔✔a person who is licensed in California to Provide Medical care or therapy (ex: registered nurse or physician) Licensee - ✔✔the entity having the the authority and responsibility for the operation of a licensed facility Licensing Agency - ✔✔a state, County or other public agency authorized by the Department to assume specified licensing, approval, or consultation responsibilities pursuant to health and safety code
Provisional license - ✔✔temporary, nonrenewable license, issued for a period not to exceed 12 months which is issued in accordance with the criteria specified in Provisional license Rehabilitation - ✔✔the effort to reestablish good character since the date of the last conviction, including but not limited to education, counseling or therapy, training, stable employment, restitution, remorse, changes in lifestyle, or community service. SOmeone with a past wants to work for you but you must be able to prove that they have improved since their trouble past in order to get an exception for them Relative - ✔✔all kin including a spouse from marriage that has been terminated by death or dissolution Request to Forgoe Resuscitative Measures - ✔✔Request to forego resuscitive measures means written document signed by an individual or a legally recognized surrogate health care decision maker and a physician that directs a health care provider to forgo resuscitative measures for the individual
- requires a prehospital "Do not Resuscitate" (DNR) form Residential Care facility for the Elderly - ✔✔a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by the resident or their responsible person; 75% of there residents are over 60 and where varying levels of care and supervision are provided as agreed to at time of admission or as determined necessary at subsequent times of appraisal. The needs of any younger residents must be compatible with other residents Responsible Person - ✔✔includes relative, health care surrogate decision maker or placement agency who assists the resident in placement or take responsibility for resident's well being Room and Board - ✔✔living arrangement where care and supervision is neither provided or available
(only food and shelter provided) Serious Deficiency - ✔✔any deficienty that presents an immediate or substantial threat to the death, mental health or safety of the residents or clients of community care facility Shall - ✔✔means Mandatory May - ✔✔Means permissive Significiant Other - ✔✔a person (including of the same gender) with whom a resident was sharing a partnership with prior to being placed in RDFE. Partnership involves 2 adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring simplified exemption - ✔✔an exemption granted on the department's own motion as authorized in heath and safety code section, if the individual's criminal history meets specific criteria established by Department regulation Social Worker - ✔✔a person who has a graduate degree from an accredited school of social work or who has equivalent qualification as determined by the Department SSI/ SSP - ✔✔Supplemental Security Income/ State Supplemental Program Substantial Compliance - ✔✔absence of any deficiencies which would threaten the physical health, mental health, safety or welfare of the resident
a facility which is "providing care and supervision" - ✔✔one in which individual has been placed by a placement agency or family members a facility which is held out as or represented as providing care and supervision includes but is not limited to - ✔✔1) a facility whose license has been revoked or denied but individual continues to provide for the same or different clients with similar needs
- a facility where chance of ownership has occurred and the same clients are retained
- a licensed facility that moves to a new location
- a facility which advertises as providing care and supervision A facility which accepts or retains residents who demonstrate the need for care and supervision includes
- ✔✔1) a facility with residents requiring care and supervision, even though the facility is providing board and/or room only
- a facility where it is apparent that care and supervision are being provided by virtue of the client's needs being met Vendor - ✔✔department approved institution or entity that assume full responsibility or control over a department approved initial certification training program or a continuing education training program Voluntary - ✔✔means resulting from free will Waiver - ✔✔a variance to a specific regulation based on a facility wide need or circumstances which is not typically tied to a specific resident or staff person. request for waivers are made to the licensing agency in advance by an applicant or licensee
