New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 27A - STANDARDS FOR LICENSURE OF RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES NOT LOCATED WITH, AND OPERATED BY, LICENSED HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Subchapter 4 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Section 5:27A-4.1 - Minimum services and staffing
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Each residential health care facility shall provide at a minimum personal care, health maintenance and monitoring, pharmacy, dietary, and recreational services in a homelike environment.
(b) The facility shall provide at all times at least one employee who is at least 18 years of age in each building or structure occupied by residents, in order to provide necessary resident supervision, as follows:
(c) In all residential health care facilities with more than 24 beds, the facility shall have the capacity to provide a sufficient number of on-duty employees (other than residents) to assure a minimum of one hour of resident supervision for each resident during a 24-hour period.
(d) In addition to meeting the requirements of (b) above, all residential health care facilities which have more than one floor shall have a system in place to assure resident safety by providing for immediate notification of staff through an emergency communication system and periodic monitoring of all areas occupied by residents.
(e) The facility shall adhere to applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, regulations, and requirements.