Health Facilities
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Long-Term Care (view all)
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Skilled nursing facility is a health facility or a distinct part of a hospital which
provides continuous skilled nursing care and supportive care to patients whose primary
need is for availability of skilled nursing care on an extended basis. A skilled
nursing facility provides 24-hours inpatient care and, as a minimum, includes physician,
skilled nursing, dietary, pharmaceutical services and an activity program.
Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)
Intermediate care facility is a health facility, or a distinct part of a hospital
or skilled nursing facility which provides inpatient care to patients who have need
for skilled nursing supervision and need supportive care, but who do not require
continuous nursing care.
Intermediate Care Facility – Developmentally Disabled (ICF-DD)
Intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled is a health facility
which provides care and support services to developmentally disabled clients whose
primary need is for developmental services and who have a recurring but intermittent
need for skilled nursing services.
Intermediate Care Facility – Developmentally Disabled Habilitative
(ICF-DDH)
Intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled habilitative is a health
facility with a capacity of 4 to 15 beds which provides 24-hours personal care,
habilitation, developmental, and supportive health services to 15 or fewer developmentally
disabled person with intermittent recurring needs for nursing services, but have
been certified by a physician and surgeon as not requiring availability of continuous
skilled nursing care.
Intermediate Care Facility – Developmentally Disabled Nursing
(ICF-DDN)
Intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled – nursing is a health
facility with a capacity of 4 to 15 beds that provides 24-hours personal care, developmental
services, and nursing supervision for developmentally disabled person who have intermittent
recurring needs for skilled nursing care but have been certified by a physician
and surgeon as not requiring continuous skilled nursing care. The facility serves
medically fragile person who have developmental disabilities or demonstrate significant
developmental delay that may lead to a developmental disability if not treated.
Congregate Living Health Facility (CLHF)
"Congregate living health facility" means a residential home with a capacity of
no more than 12 beds (except those operated by a city or county which may have a
capacity of 59 beds), that provides inpatient care, including the following basic
services: medical supervision, 24-hour skilled nursing and supportive care, pharmacy,
dietary, social, recreational, and at least one type of the following services:
services for persons who are mentally alert, physically disabled persons, who may
be ventilator dependent; services for persons who have a diagnosis of terminal illness,
a diagnosis of a life threatening illness, or both; services for persons who are
catastrophically and severely disabled. The primary need of congregate living health
facility residents shall be for availability of skilled nursing care on a recurring,
intermittent, extended, or continuous basis. This care is generally less intense
than that provided in general acute care hospitals but more intense than that provided
in skilled nursing facilities.
Pediatric Day Health and Respite Care Facility (PDHRCF)
Pediatric Day health and respite care facility is a facility which provides an organized
program of therapeutic social and day health activities and services and limited
24-hours inpatient respite care to medically fragile children 21 years of age or
younger including terminally ill and technology dependent children.
General Acute Care Hospital (GACH)
General acute care hospital means a hospital, licensed by the Department, having
a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility
and an organized medical staff which provides 24- hour inpatient care, including
the following basic services: medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory,
radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. A general acute care hospital shall
not include separate buildings which are used exclusively to house personnel or
provide activities not related to hospital patients.
Acute Psychiatric Hospital (APH)
Acute psychiatric hospital means a hospital having a duly constituted governing
body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized
medical staff which provides 24-hour inpatient care for mentally disordered, incompetent
or other patients referred to in Division 5 (commencing with section 5000) or Division
6 (commencing with section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code, including
the following basic services: medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy and dietary
services. An acute psychiatric hospital shall not include separate buildings
which are used exclusively to house personnel or provide activities not related
to hospital patients.