Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 7, 1993                   TAG: 9309070047
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Rick Lindquist
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

ADULT-HOME RULES RESTRICT ADMISSIONS

Under the proposals, adult homes - to be called "adult-care residences" - will not be able to accept residents who:

Depend on a ventilator.

Have advanced-stage skin ulcers.

Require intravenous therapy or injections.

Have a communicable airborne infectious disease.

Take psychotropic medications (without diagnosis and treatment plans).

Need nasogastric or gastric tubes.

Present an imminent physical threat or danger to themselves or others.

Need around-the-clock nursing care.

Are certified by a physician that placement is no longer appropriate.

Require maximum physical assistance.

Have health-care needs that cannot be met in a particular adult-care residence.

Have any other medical- and functional-care needs that the state Social Services Board determines an adult-care residence cannot meet.

A form called a Uniform Assessment Instrument will be completed for all prospective adult-home residents. The adult-care residence administrator then must assure that the residence can meet the applicant's care needs.

To be eligible for an auxiliary grant while living in an adult-care residence, an individual must be evaluated by a human services or social services case manager to determine the need for residential care.

Reassessments will be done at least annually for residential living - Level I - residents and every six months for assisted living - Level II - residents of adult-care residences.