NAC449.2756. Residential facility which provides care to persons with Alzheimer’s disease: Standards for safety; personnel required; training for employees.

     1. The administrator of a residential facility which provides care to persons with Alzheimer’s disease shall ensure that:

     (a) Swimming pools and other bodies of water are fenced or protected by other acceptable means.

     (b) Operational alarms, buzzers, horns or other audible devices which are activated when a door is opened are installed on all doors that may be used to exit the facility.

     (c) At least one member of the staff is awake and on duty at the facility at all times.

     (d) Each employee of the facility who has direct contact with and provides care to residents with any form of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, successfully completes the training and continuing education required pursuant to NAC 449.2768.

     (e) Knives, matches, firearms, tools and other items that could constitute a danger to the residents of the facility are inaccessible to the residents.

     (f) The facility has an area outside the facility or a yard adjacent to the facility that:

          (1) May be used by the residents for outdoor activities;

          (2) Has at least 40 square feet of space for each resident in the facility;

          (3) Is fenced; and

          (4) Is maintained in a manner that does not jeopardize the safety of the residents.

Ê All gates leading from the secured, fenced area or yard to an unsecured open area or yard must be locked and keys for gates must be readily available to the members of the staff of the facility at all times.

     (g) All toxic substances are not accessible to the residents of the facility.

     2. The training required pursuant to NAC 449.2768 may be used to satisfy the requirement of paragraph (f) of subsection 1 of NAC 449.196 for the year in which the training is received.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R003-97, eff. 10-30-97; A by R052-99, 9-27-99; R073-03, 1-22-2004; R071-04, 8-4-2004)