Section 71: Licensing of long-term care facilities; intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities; transfer of operations
Section 71. (a) For purposes of this section and sections 71A1/2 to 73, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:
''Applicant'', any person who applies to the department for a license to establish or maintain and operate a long-term care facility.
''Charitable home for the aged'', any institution, however named, conducted for charitable purposes and maintained for the purpose of providing a retirement home for elderly persons and which may provide nursing care within the home for its residents.
''Cohorting'', the practice of grouping patients who: (i) are colonized or infected with the same organism in order to confine their care to 1 area and prevent contact with other patients; or (ii) are not colonized or infected with the same organism in order to confine their care to 1 area and prevent contact with other patients.
''Convalescent or nursing home'', any institution, however named, including a skilled nursing facility, whether conducted for profit or not for profit, which is advertised, announced or maintained for the express or implied purpose of caring for 4 or more persons admitted thereto for the purpose of nursing or convalescent care.
''Correct by date'', the date by which a licensee shall remedy or correct any violation discovered after an inspection by the department pursuant to section 72E.
''Endemic level'', the usual level of a given disease in a geographic area.