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    <CFRTITLE>42</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Public Health</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>5</VOL>
    <DATE>2009-10-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2009-10-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Definitions.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>488.301</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 488.301</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 42" SEQ="4">Public Health</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER IV" SEQ="3">CENTERS FOR MEDICARE &amp; MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED)</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="SUBCHAPTER G" SEQ="2">STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 488" SEQ="1">SURVEY, CERTIFICATION, AND ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart E" SEQ="0">Survey and Certification of Long-Term Care Facilities</PARENT>
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  <SECTION>
    <SECTNO>§ 488.301</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Definitions.</SUBJECT>
    <P>As used in this subpart—</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Abbreviated standard survey</E> means a survey other than a standard survey that gathers information primarily through resident-centered techniques on facility compliance with the requirements for participation. An abbreviated standard survey may be premised on complaints received; a change of ownership, management, or director of nursing; or other indicators of specific concern.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Abuse</E> means the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Deficiency</E> means a SNF's or NF's failure to meet a participation requirement specified in the Act or in part 483, subpart B of this chapter.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Dually participating facility</E> means a facility that has a provider agreement in both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Extended survey</E> means a survey that evaluates additional participation requirements subsequent to finding substandard quality of care during a standard survey.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Facility</E> means a SNF or NF, or a distinct part SNF or NF, in accordance with § 483.5 of this chapter.<PRTPAGE P="446"/>
    </P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Immediate family</E> means husband or wife; natural or adoptive parent, child or sibling; stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, or stepsister; father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; grandparent or grandchild.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Immediate jeopardy</E> means a situation in which the provider's noncompliance with one or more requirements of participation has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury, harm, impairment, or death to a resident.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Misappropriation of resident property</E> means the deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or wrongful, temporary or permanent use of a resident's belongings or money without the resident's consent.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Neglect</E> means failure to provide goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Noncompliance</E> means any deficiency that causes a facility to not be in substantial compliance.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Nurse aide</E> means an individual, as defined in § 483.75(e)(1) of this chapter.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Nursing facility (NF)</E> means a Medicaid nursing facility.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Paid feeding assistant</E> means an individual who meets the requirements specified in § 483.35(h)(2) of this chapter and who is paid to feed residents by a facility, or who is used under an arrangement with another agency or organization.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Partial extended survey</E> means a survey that evaluates additional participation requirements subsequent to finding substandard quality of care during an abbreviated standard survey.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Skilled nursing facility (SNF)</E> means a Medicare nursing facility.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Standard survey</E> means a periodic, resident-centered inspection which gathers information about the quality of service furnished in a facility to determine compliance with the requirements for participation.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Substandard quality of care</E> means one or more deficiencies related to participation requirements under § 483.13, Resident behavior and facility practices, § 483.15, Quality of life, or § 483.25, Quality of care of this chapter, which constitute either immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety; a pattern of or widespread actual harm that is not immediate jeopardy; or a widespread potential for more than minimal harm, but less than immediate jeopardy, with no actual harm.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Substantial compliance</E> means a level of compliance with the requirements of participation such that any identified deficiencies pose no greater risk to resident health or safety than the potential for causing minimal harm.</P>
    <P>
      <E T="03">Validation survey</E> means a survey conducted by the Secretary within 2 months following a standard survey, abbreviated standard survey, partial extended survey, or extended survey for the purpose of monitoring State survey agency performance.</P>
    <CITA>[59 FR 56238, Nov. 10, 1994, as amended at 68 FR 55539, Sept. 26, 2003]</CITA>
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