Residential Facility
What is a Residential Care
Facility?
Nursing Home Care Act
Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statues
Section 1-1901 Et Seq
With 2001 Amendment
3-1-1902. Definitions.
"Residential care home" means any home, establishment, or
institution licenses pursuant to the provisions of the Residential
Care Act other than a hotel, motel, fraternity or sorority house,
or college or university dormitory, which offers or provides
residential accommodations, food service, and supportive assistance
to any of its residents or houses any resident requiring supportive
assistance.
The residents shall be persons who are ambulatory and
essentially capable of managing their own affairs, but who do not
routinely require nursing care; provided, the term "residential
care home" shall not mean a hotel, motel. Fraternity or sorority
house, or college or university dormitory, if the facility operates
in a manner customary to its description and does not house any
person who requires supportive assistance from the facility in
order to meet an adequate level of daily living;
A residential care home may provide assistance with meals,
dressing, bathing, and other personal needs, and it may assist in
the administration of medications. However, it cannot provide
medical care. Residents need to be ambulatory. Some
residential care homes are located in large facilities while others
are in small homes. Medicaid does not pay for a people to live
in residential care facilities.
For more information,check the following Wb sites: Nursing Home
Compare and State Health Department Survey Information at www.medicare.gov, National
Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform at www.nccnhr.org, AARP Nursing Home
Resource at www.aarp.org, and
Oklahoma Nursing Home Inspection Database and Nursing Facility
Changes at:www.health.state.ok
Residential Care Directory for Creek, Osage and
Tulsa CountiesBack
