Geriatric Facility (095) #
Service Code Definition: #
A regional center shall classify a vendor as a Geriatric Facility provider if the vendor operates a residential facility for the elderly. Geriatric Facility services include, but are not limited to, personal care and services, homemaker, chore, attendant care, companion services, medication oversight (to the extent permitted under State law), therapeutic social and recreational programming, provided in a home-like environment in a licensed (where applicable) community care facility or family home certified by a family home agency, in conjunction with residing in the facility. This service includes 24-hour onsite response staff to meet scheduled or unpredictable needs in a way that promotes maximum dignity and independence, and to provide supervision, safety and security. Other individuals or agencies may also furnish care directly, under arrangement with the community care facility, but the care provided by these other entities supplements that care provided by the community care facility and does not supplant it. A Geriatric facility service may also include, home health care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medication administration, intermittent skilled nursing services, or transportation specified in the plan of care. The regional center shall vendor the geriatric facility in accordance with Title 17, CCR, §54310 and 5432, Health and Safety Code §1500-1569.87; and Title 22, CCR, §§87100-87730.
