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  SECTION 429.73. Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes.  


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  • 1(1) 2The agency in consultation with the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Families shall establish by rule minimum standards to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of each resident in the adult family-care home pursuant to this part. The rules must address:
    47(a) 48Requirements for the physical site of the facility and facility maintenance.
    59(b) 60Services that must be provided to all residents of an adult family-care home and standards for such services, which must include, but need not be limited to:
    871. 88Room and board.
    912. 92Assistance necessary to perform the activities of daily living.
    1013. 102Assistance necessary to administer medication.
    1074. 108Supervision of residents.
    1115. 112Health monitoring.
    1146. 115Social and leisure activities.
    119(c) 120Standards and procedures for license application and annual license renewal, advertising, proper management of each resident’s funds and personal property and personal affairs, financial ability to operate, medication management, inspections, complaint investigations, and facility, staff, and resident records.
    158(d) 159Qualifications, training, standards, and responsibilities for providers and staff.
    168(e) 169Compliance with chapter 419, relating to community residential homes.
    178(f) 179Criteria and procedures for determining the appropriateness of a resident’s placement and continued residency in an adult family-care home. A resident who requires 24-hour nursing supervision may not be retained in an adult family-care home unless such resident is an enrolled hospice patient and the resident’s continued residency is mutually agreeable to the resident and the provider.
    236(g) 237Procedures for providing notice and assuring the least possible disruption of residents’ lives when residents are relocated, an adult family-care home is closed, or the ownership of an adult family-care home is transferred.
    270(h) 271Procedures to protect the residents’ rights as provided in s. 281429.85282.
    283(i) 284Procedures to promote the growth of adult family-care homes as a component of a long-term care system.
    301(j) 302Procedures to promote the goal of aging in place for residents of adult family-care homes.
    317(2) 318The agency shall provide by rule minimum standards and procedures for emergencies. Pursuant to s. 333633.206, 334the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the agency, shall adopt uniform firesafety standards for adult family-care homes.
    352(3) 353The agency shall adopt rules providing for the implementation of orders not to resuscitate. The provider may withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with an order not to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 387401.45388. The provider shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability, nor be considered to have engaged in negligent or unprofessional conduct, for withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to such an order and applicable rules.
History.-ss. 1, 2, ch. 85-195; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 7, ch. 93-209; s. 24, ch. 95-210; s. 65, ch. 95-418; s. 10, ch. 98-148; s. 7, ch. 98-338; s. 3, ch. 99-179; s. 7, ch. 99-331; s. 3, ch. 2006-197; s. 104, ch. 2007-5; s. 163, ch. 2007-230; s. 139, ch. 2013-183; s. 253, ch. 2014-19; s. 25, ch. 2019-11.

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Note.-Former s. 400.621.

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