(A) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOME FOR THE AGED. Any home operated not for profit under the auspices of a religious, fraternal, charitable or other organization, or operated not for profit under an endowment, which, through its ownership or management, and as its principal objective, provides maintenance, personal care, nursing or sheltered care to not less than three persons over 60 years of age.
MAINTENANCE. Food, shelter and laundry.
NURSING. Professional nursing or practical nursing, as defined in ILCS Ch. 225, Act 70, § 4, as amended, 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 or not operated for profit, which, through its ownership or management, provides maintenance, personal care or nursing for three or more persons, not related to the applicant or owner by blood or marriage, who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, require personal care or nursing.
OWNER. In the case of a licensee who is an individual, means the licensee, and in the case of a firm, partnership or association, means each member thereof.
PERSONAL CARE. Assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing or other personal needs, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental wellbeing of an individual, exclusive of nursing, which individual, because of age, physical or mental disability, emotional or behavioral disorder or mental retardation, is incapable of maintaining a private, independent residence, or is incapable of managing his or her person, whether or not a conservator has been appointed for the individual.
RESIDENT. Any person admitted, for care, to a nursing home, sheltered care home or home for the aged.
SHELTERED CARE. Maintenance and personal care.
SHELTERED CARE HOME.
(1) A private boarding home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether or not operated for profit, 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.
(2) “Nursing home,” “sheltered care home” and “home for the aged” do not include the following:
(a) A home, institution or other place operated by the federal government or an agency thereof, the state, the county or the city;
(b) A hospital, sanitarium or other institution whose principal activity or business is the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness through the maintenance and operation of an organized facility therefor, which is required to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act, approved July 1, 1953, as amended; and/or
(c) Any facility for child care, as defined in the Child Care Act, ILCS Ch. 225, Act 10, §§ 1 et seq..
(2000 Code, § 5.40.010)