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Nebraska Senior Housing & Care
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Nebraska Department of
Health and Human Services
P.O. Box 95044
Lincoln, NE 68509-5044
(402) 471-2306
www.hhs.state.ne.us
State Commission on Aging
www.hhs.state.ne.us/ags/agsindex.htm
| Types of Housing/Care | Search | Definitions |
| Adult Day Services | Adult Day Care | Adult Day Services (ADS) are coordinated by a person or any legal entity which provides care and an array of social, medical, or other support services for a period of less than 24 consecutive hours in a community-based program to elderly or disabled persons who require or request such services due to age or functional impairment. |
| Assisted Living Facilities | Assisted Living | An Assisted Living Facility is any institution, facility, place, or building in which there are provided for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours, through ownership, contract, or preferred provider arrangements, accommodation, board, and an array of services for assistance with or provision of personal care, activities of daily living, health maintenance activities, or other supportive services. Services are provided for four or more non-related, senior individuals who have been determined to need or want these services. Assisted living promotes resident self-direction and participation in decisions which emphasize independence, individuality, privacy, dignity, and residential surroundings. This definition does not include (a) those homes, apartments, or facilities providing casual care at irregular intervals and (b) those homes, apartments, or facilities in which a competent resident provides or contracts for his or her own personal or professional services if no more than 25% of the residents receive such services. A competent resident is someone who has the capability and capacity to make an informed decision. |
| Home Health Agencies | Home Care | A Home Health Agency is a public agency, private organization, or subdivision of such an agency or organization which is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing care or a minimum of one other therapeutic service on a full-time, part-time, or intermittent basis to patients. Health care is provided in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the patient's home under a plan of care prescribed by the attending physician. |
| Hospice | Hospice | Hospice is a coordinated program under the direction of an identifiable hospice administration which provides: home care and inpatient care, palliative care, supportive medical care, and any other care to meet the needs of terminally ill patients and their families, uses a medically directed hospice interdisciplinary team including services provided by trained volunteers, provides care to meet physical, psychological, spiritual, and other special needs which are experienced during the final stages of illness and during dying and bereavement, and is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week. |
| Intermediate Care Facilities/Long Term Care | Nursing | An Intermediate Care Facility is:
1. Any institution, facility, place, or building in which accommodation and board for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours and also nursing care and related medical services are provided for two or more non-related individuals who are ill, injured, or disabled but not in need of hospital care, but who by reason of illness, disease, injury, deformity, disability, convalescence, age, or physical or mental infirmity require such nursing care. An Intermediate Care Facility (Type 1) provides at least one licensed registered nurse on duty on the day shift seven days per week and a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse on the other two shifts seven days per week. The director of nursing services is a licensed registered nurse.
2. Any institution, facility, place, or building in which accommodation and board for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours and also nursing care and related medical services are provided for two or more non-related individuals who are ill, injured, or disabled but not in need of hospital care, but who by reason of illness, disease, injury, deformity, disability, convalescence, age, or physical or mental infirmity require such nursing care. An Intermediate Care Facility (Type 2) provides at least one licensed registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or care staff member on duty seven days per week 24 hours per day and a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse on duty at least on the day shift seven days a week. The director of nursing services is a licensed registered nurse.
3. Any institution, facility, place, or building in which there are provided for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours accommodation, board, and nursing care for two or more non-related individuals who are ill, injured, or disabled but not in need of hospital care, but who by reason of illness, disease, injury, deformity, disability, convalescence, age, or physical or mental infirmity need care and need assistance in taking their medication. An Intermediate Care Facility (Type 3) provides at least one care staff member on duty seven days per week 24 hours per day and at least one licensed practical nurse on the day shift seven days per week. The Health Service Supervisor may be an Intermediate Care Facility (Type 3) licensed practical nurse. | | Nursing Facilities/Long term Care | Nursing | A Nursing Facility is any institution or facility, or a distinct part of any institution or facility, which is primarily devoted to providing to inpatients nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of impaired, elderly, disabled, or sick persons. A Nursing Facility provides at least one registered nurse on duty on the day shift seven days per week and a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse on the other two shifts seven days per week. The director of nursing services is a licensed registered nurse. |
| Skilled Nursing Facilities/Long Term Care | Nursing | A Skilled Nursing Facility is any institution or facility, or a distinct part of any institution or facility, which is primarily devoted to providing to inpatients skilled nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of impaired, elderly, disabled, or sick persons. A Skilled Nursing Facility provides at least one registered nurse on duty on the day shift seven days per week and a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse on the other two shifts seven days per week. The director of nursing services is a licensed registered nurse. |
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