LONG TERM CARE FACILITY: A private home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which provides through its ownership or management, maintenance, personal care, or professional nursing care for more than two (2) persons who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, are unable to properly care for themselves. Long term care facility definitions are:
A. A skilled nursing facility provides skilled nursing care, continuous skilled nursing observations, restorative nursing, and other services under professional direction with frequent medical supervision. Such facilities are provided for patients who need the type of care and treatment required during the most acute phase of illness or during reoccurrences of symptoms in long-term illness.
B. An intermediate care facility provides basic nursing care and other restorative services under periodic medical direction. Many of these services may require skill in administration. Such facilities are for residents who have long-term illnesses or disabilities which may have reached a relatively stable plateau.
C. A sheltered care facility provides personal assistance, supervision, oversight, and a suitable activities program. Provisions are made for periodic medical supervision and other medical services as needed. Such facilities are for individuals who do not need nursing care but do need the services provided by this type of facility in meeting their needs. Examples of such individuals are referrals from institutions for the mentally handicapped; those disabled from aging; the chronically ill whose conditions have become stablized.
The term "long term care facility" does not include:
A. A home, institution or other place operated by the Federal government or any agency thereof or by the State;
B. A hospital, sanitarium or other institution whose principal activity or business is the care and treatment of persons suffering from mental or nervous diseases;
C. A hospital, sanitarium or other institution whose principal activity or business is the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness or fragility through the maintenance and operation of organized facilities therefor;
D. Any child welfare agency, maternity or lying in home required to be licensed by the state. (Ord. 1992-0-29, 6-1-92)