Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 111-8-63-.17 - Services in the Community
(1) The assisted living community must
provide assisted living, including protective care and watchful oversight,
which meets the needs of the residents it admits and retains.
(2)
Resident Needs Assessment.
The assisted living community must complete an assessment of the resident 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.
(3)
Written Care
Plan. Utilizing the information acquired during the admission process
and the move-in adjustment period, the assisted living community 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 family involvement in the development of the plan when appropriate;
and
(g) evidence of the care plan
being updated at least annually and more frequently where the needs of the
resident change substantially or the resident is assigned to a memory care
center.
(4)
Social
Activities. Each assisted living community must provide social
activities on a daily basis that promote the physical, mental and social
well-being of each resident and take into account the personal preferences of
the residents.
(5)
Activity
Resources. The assisted living community must provide, books, current
newspapers or magazines, and games for leisure time activities. The assisted
living community must offer assistance to residents who wish to participate in
hobbies, music, arts and crafts, religion, games, and sports, social,
recreational and cultural activities available in the assisted living community
and in the community.
(6)
Available Telephone. The assisted living community must have at
least one operable, non-pay telephone which is accessible at all times for
emergency use by staff on the premises. Residents must also have access to an
operable, non-pay telephone in a private location, both to make and receive
personal calls. The same telephone may be used for staff and resident
access.
(7) The assisted living
community must not restrict a resident's free access to the common areas of the
assisted living community or the memory care center or lock the resident into
or out of the resident's bedroom.
(8)
Proxy Caregiver Services.
Where the assisted living community chooses to allow proxy caregivers to
function in the community to perform certain health maintenance activities that
are not covered in the basic assisted living care the community is required to
provide, the assisted living community must do either of the following:
(a) Provide employees who are available for
designation by a resident to serve as proxy caregivers to perform certain
health maintenance activities; or
(b) Permit the resident or a person legally
authorized to act on behalf of the resident to employ designated proxy
caregivers to provide health maintenance activities.
(9)
Proxy Caregiver Records. The
community must maintain documentation on all proxy caregivers performing health
maintenance activities which complies with the Rules and Regulations for Proxy
Caregivers, Chapter 111-8-100.
(10)
Prohibited Proxy Caregiver Services. Where the assisted living
community employs proxy caregivers, the community must not permit proxy
caregivers to provide assistance with or administer medications.
(11) Medical, nursing (other than developing
and updating care plans, training, medication administration and skills
competency determinations) health services required on a periodic basis, or for
short-term illness, must not be provided as services of the assisted living
community. When such services are required, they shall be purchased by the
resident or the resident's representative or legal surrogate, if any, from
appropriately licensed providers which are managed independently and not owned
or operated by the assisted living community. The assisted living community may
assist in arrangement for such services, but not in the provision of those
services.
Notes
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