Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 111-8-62-.17 - Services
(1) Personal
assistance must be given to those residents who are unable to keep themselves
neat and clean.
(2) Each home must
provide sufficient activities to promote the physical, mental and social
well-being of each resident.
(3)
Each home must provide books, newspapers, and games for leisure time
activities. Each home must encourage and offer assistance to residents who wish
to participate in hobbies, music, arts and crafts, religion, games, sports,
social, recreational and cultural activities available in the home and in the
community.
(4) Each home must have
at least one operable, non-pay telephone which is accessible at all times for
emergency use by staff. Residents must have access to an operable, non-pay
telephone in a private location, both to make and receive personal calls. The
same telephone may meet all the requirements of this section.
(5) The daily living routine of the home must
be such that a resident may spend the majority of his or her non-sleeping hours
out of the resident's bedroom, if he or she so chooses.
(6) A home must not restrict a resident's
free access to the common areas of the home unless the resident is living in a
specialized memory care center. If the resident is residing in a specialized
memory care center, unrestricted access to the common areas contained within
the memory care center must be provided to the resident.
(7) A home must not lock the resident into or
out of the resident's bedroom or private living space.
(8)
Resident Needs Assessment.
The home must complete an assessment of the resident at the time of admission
and update as changes occur that addresses the resident's care needs taking
into account the resident's family supports, the resident's functional capacity
relative to the activities of daily living, physical care needs, medical
information provided, cognitive and behavioral impairments, if any, and
personal preferences relative to care needs.
(9)
Written Care Plan. Utilizing
the information acquired during the admission process and the move-in
adjustment period, a home which provides proxy caregivers or memory care must
develop the resident's individual written care plan within 14 days of admission
and require staff to use the care plan as a guide for the delivery of care and
services to the resident. The care plan must include the following:
(a) A description of the resident's care and
social needs and the services to be provided, including frequency to address
care and social needs.
(b)
Resident's particular preferences regarding care, activities and
interests.
(c) Specific behaviors
to be addressed with interventions to be used.
(d) Any physician order or order of a nurse
practitioner or physician assistant working under protocol or job description,
respectively for assistive devices.
(e) Staff primarily responsible for
implementing the care plan.
(f)
Evidence of resident and family involvement in the development of the plan when
appropriate.
(g) Evidence of the
care plan being updated at least annually and more frequently where the needs
of the resident change substantially.
Notes
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