SECTION 310:663-9-6. Minimum staff for services

(a)   Staffing. Adequate trained staff shall be on duty, awake, and present at all times, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to meet the needs of residents and to carry out all the processes listed in the assisted living center's, written emergency and disaster preparedness plan for fires and other natural disasters.

(b)   Limitations on one-person staffing. An assisted living center that has only one direct care staff member on duty shall:

(1)   Disclose the one-person staffing and the plan for dealing with urgent and emergent situations to residents and their representatives before admission or prior to one-person staffing if such staffing was not previously practiced by the assisted living center; and,

(2)   Have in place a plan, approved by the Department, for dealing with urgent or emergent situations, including resident falls, during periods when the assisted living center has only one direct-care staff member on duty.

(c)   Units designed to prevent or limit resident access to areas outside the designated unit or program. An assisted living center shall have a minimum of two (2) staff members on duty and awake on all shifts if an assisted living center has a unit or program designed to prevent or limit resident access to areas outside the designated unit or program. A minimum of one (1) direct care staff is required to be on duty and awake at all times within the unit or program designed to prevent or limit resident access to areas outside the designated unit or program.

[Source: Added at 18 Ok Reg 2533, eff 6-25-01; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 2007, eff 6-25-07; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 2460, eff 7-11-08]

Note

EDITOR’S NOTE: See Editor's Note at beginning of this Chapter.