For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a separate meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person making an application for a license.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A substance defined as such by the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (ILCS Ch. 720, Act 570).
COOK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER ORDINANCE. That ordinance enacted by the Cook County Board, effective December 6, 1976, establishing the office of Cook County Medical Examiner, and the regulations promulgated by the Cook County Medical Examiner pursuant to such ordinance, dated April 6, 1977, and entitled “Guidelines for Hospitals and Physicians.”
HOME ADMINISTRATOR. A person licensed as a nursing home administrator by the Illinois Department of Registration and Education, pursuant to the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing and Disciplinary Act (ILCS Ch. 225, Act 70), and licensed by the village to operate and manage a nursing home, sheltered care home, or home for the aged.
HOME FOR THE AGED. Any private home, institution, building, residence, or any other place, whether operated for profit or not, which through its ownership or management, and as its principal objective, provides maintenance, personal care, nursing or sheltered care to persons over the age of 60 years, and in the conduct of which provides such service or services to not less than three persons over 60 years of age.
HOME REGULATED BY THIS CHAPTER. Every nursing home, sheltered care home and home for the aged, as such terms are defined by this chapter, located within the village.
MAINTENANCE. Food, shelter and laundry.
NURSE. A person licensed to practice nursing in the state.
NURSING. Professional nursing or practical nursing, as these terms are defined in the Illinois Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act (ILCS Ch. 225, Act 65, § 50-10), for sick or infirm persons who are under the care and supervision of licensed medical practitioners.
NURSING HOME. A private home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, for the medically infirm, chronically ill, memory challenged (Alzheimers and dementia), which provides through its ownership or management, maintenance, personal care or nursing for three or more persons, not related to the applicant or owner by blood or marriage; or any similar facility in which maintenance is provided to three or more persons who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, require personal care or nursing, that is licensed or required to be licensed by the Illinois Department of Public Health. An institution that is or should be classified as a hospital, sanitarium, mental health facility or other kind of health care facility is not a NURSING HOME. A facility devoted primarily to providing psychiatric and related services and programs for the diagnosis and treatment or care of two or more unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous diseases is not a NURSING HOME and shall be considered a hospital or sanitarium as defined in the Hospital Licensing Act (ILCS Ch. 210, Act 85, § 3), unless licensed as a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility.
OWNER. In the case of a licensee who is an individual, owner means the licensee; and in the case of a licensee that is a firm, partnership, association, corporation, or any other entity whatsoever, whichever is applicable.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, association, firm, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, trust or estate, or any other entity whatsoever.
PERSONAL CARE. Assistance with meals, dressing, transportation, movement, bathing, or other personal needs; or general oversight of the physical and mental well-being of the residents, exclusive of nursing, as may be required by their condition.
PHYSICIAN. A person licensed to practice medicine in all its branches in the state.
RESIDENT. Any person admitted as a patient to a nursing home, sheltered care home, or home for the aged for care.
SHELTERED CARE. Maintenance and personal care.
SHELTERED CARE HOME. A private boarding home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which, through its ownership or management, provides sheltered care to three or more persons who are not related to the applicant or owner by blood or marriage; or any similar facility in which maintenance is provided to three or more persons who, by reason of physical infirmity, require personal care. A facility that derives a significant amount of revenue from the treatment of the mentally ill is not a SHELTERED CARE HOME and shall be considered a hospital or sanitarium as defined in the Hospital Licensing Act (ILCS Ch. 210, Act 5, § 3). A facility devoted primarily to providing psychiatric and related services and programs for the diagnosis and treatment or care of two or more unrelated persons suffering from emotional or nervous diseases is not a SHELTERED CARE HOME and shall be considered a hospital or sanitarium as defined in the Hospital Licensing Act (ILCS Ch. 210, Act 85, § 3).
(Ord. 2247, passed 9-3-2015)