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 application for a license.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A substance defined as such by the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (720 ILCS 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 (225 ILCS 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 aged persons, and in the conduct of which provides such service or services to not less than 3 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 Illinois Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act, 225 ILCS 65/50-10), for sick or infirm persons who are under the care and supervision of licensed medical practitioners.
NURSING HOME. Private home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, for the infirm or chronically ill, which provides through its ownership or management, maintenance, personal care or nursing for 3 or more persons, not related to the applicant or owner by blood or marriage; or any similar facility in which maintenance is provided to 3 or more persons who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, require personal care or nursing.
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, municipality, political subdivision, trust or estate, or any other entity whatsoever, OWNER means each member thereof, or the governing body thereof, 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, 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 3 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 3 or more persons who, by reason of physical infirmity, require personal care.
(1997 Code, § 18.02) (Ord. 78-8, passed 5-11-1978; Am. Ord. 80-23, passed 9-25-1980)