South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 67 - Department of Social Services
Article 67:45 - Nursing facility level of care and claims
Chapter 67:45:01 - Level of care
Section 67:45:01:01 - Definitions

(1) "Activities of daily living," tasks performed routinely by a person to maintain physical functioning and personal care, including transferring, moving about, dressing, grooming, toileting, and eating;

(2) "Adult foster care," personal care, health supervision, and household services provided in a family residence, in a family atmosphere, and on behalf of adults who are aged, blind, or disabled according to chapter 67:46:03;

(3) "Alternative services," those services provided in the individual's home by family, friends, or in-home service providers which allow the individual to remain in the home;

(4) "Assisted living center," a facility which meets the definition of an assisted living center according to SDCL 34-12-1.1;

(5) "Non-waiver assisted living," a service provided to an individual in an assisted living center who does not meet the eligibility criteria to receive waiver services;

(6) "Instrumental activities of daily living," tasks performed routinely by an individual utilizing physical and social environmental features to manage life situations, including preparing meals, self-administering medications, using a telephone, housekeeping, doing laundry, handling finances, shopping, and using a transportation system or obtaining transportation;

(7) "Level of care," a classification which denotes the type of care an individual requires;

(8) "Nursing facility," a facility licensed as a nursing facility by the Department of Health and maintained and operated for the express or implied purpose of providing care to one or more persons, whether for consideration or not, who are not acutely ill but require nursing care and related medical services of such complexity as to require professional nursing care under the direction of a physician twenty-four hours a day;

(9) "Assessment," a comprehensive evaluation, completed using the resident assessment instrument described in § 44:73:06:10, of the functional, medical, mental, nursing, and psychosocial needs of a resident of a nursing facility and includes admission, readmission, and discharge information as applicable;

(10) "Self-care level of care," the ability of an individual to live independently with or without alternative services;

(11) "Swing bed," a licensed hospital bed approved by the Department of Health to provide short-term nursing facility care pending the availability of a nursing facility bed; and

(12) "Waiver services," services provided under chapter 67:44:03.