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- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1955]
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- 1955
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1955]
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1055 — Session Laws
Ch. 369
mg) convalescent home, but nothing in this Article shall be construed as
identifying, defining or classifying a (nursing) convalescent home as a
hospital or the equivalent of a hospital. For the purpose of this Article, a
‘convalescent home’ is defined as an institution, however named, which is
advertised, announced, or maintained for the express or implied purpose
of providing nursing or convalescent care for three or more unrelated per¬
sons. A 'convalescent home' is a home for chronic or convalescent patients
who, on admission, are not as a rule, acutely ill and who do not usually
require special facilities, such as an operating room. X-ray facilities, labora¬
tory facilities, and obstetrical facilities. A ‘convalescent home’ provides
care for persons who have remedial ailments or other ailments, for which
medical and nursing care is indicated; who, however, are not sick enough
to require general hospital care. Nursing care is their primary need, but
they will require continuing medical supervision.
"A ‘home for the aged and infirm’, usually designated as a boarding
home, as distinguished from a ‘convalescent home’ is a place for the care
of aged and infirm persons whose principal need is a home with such
sheltered, custodial, and nursing care as their age and infirmities require.
In such homes, medical care is only occasional or incidental, such as may
be required in the home of any individual or family for persons who are
aged and infirm. The residents of such homes will not, as a rule, have
remedial ailments or other ailments for which continuing skilled planned
medical and nursing care is indicated. A major factor which distinguishes
these homes is that the residents may be given congregate services as
distinguished from the individualization of medical care required in ‘patient’
care. A person may he accepted for sheltered or custodial care because of
a disability which does not require continuing planned medical care, but
which does make him unable to maintain himself in individual living ar¬
rangements.
“In further distinguishing between a ‘convalescent home’ on the one
hand and a *home for the aged and infirm’ on the other, it is recognized
that a 'convalescent home’ is not a place for the care of aged and infirm
persons whose principal need is a home with such custodial and sheltered
care as their age and infirmities require. In such convalescent homes med¬
ical care is not merely occasional and incidental, such as may he required
in the home of any individual or family. The residents of these convales¬
cent homes will, as a rule, have remedial ailments, or other ailments, for
which continuing planned medical and skilled nursing care is indicated. A
major factor which distinguishes these convalescent homes is that the res¬
idents will require the individualization of medical care required in ‘patient’
care.”
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are here¬
by repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its
ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th
day of March, 1955.
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