(a) (1) “Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN)” means any adult residential facility that provides 24-hour health care and intensive support services in a homelike setting that is licensed to serve up to five adults with developmental disabilities as defined in Section 4512.

(2) “Group Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs (GHCSHN)” means a group home, as described in paragraph (22) of subdivision (a) of § 1502 of the Health and Safety Code and licensed pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 1567.50) of the Health and Safety Code, that provides 24-hour health care and intensive support services in a homelike setting that is licensed to serve up to five children or nonminor dependents with developmental disabilities as defined in Section 4512.

(3) For purposes of this article, an ARFPSHN or a GHCSHN may only be established in a facility approved pursuant to Section 4688.5 or through an approved regional center community placement plan pursuant to Section 4418.25.

(b) “Consultant” means a person professionally qualified by training and experience to give expert advice, information, training, or to provide health-related assessments and interventions specified in a consumer‘s individual health care plan.

(c) “Direct care personnel” means all personnel who directly provide program or nursing services to consumers. Administrative and licensed personnel shall be considered direct care personnel when directly providing program or nursing services to clients. Consultants shall not be considered direct care personnel.

(d) “Individual health care plan” means the plan that identifies and documents the health care and intensive support service needs of a consumer.

(e) “Individual health care plan team” means those individuals who develop, monitor, and revise the individual health care plan for consumers residing in an ARFPSHN or a GHCSHN.

(1) For an ARFPSHN or a GHCSHN, the team shall, at a minimum, be composed of all of the following individuals:

(A) Regional center service coordinator and other regional center representative, as necessary.

(B) Consumer, and, if appropriate, the consumer’s parents, legal guardian or conservator, or authorized representative.

(C) Consumer’s primary care physician, or other physician as designated by the regional center.

(D) ARFPSHN or GHCSHN administrator.

(E) ARFPSHN or GHCSHN registered nurse.

(F) Others deemed necessary for developing a comprehensive and effective plan.

(2) For a GHCSHN, in addition to the individuals listed in paragraph (1), the team shall, at a minimum, include all of the individuals required for an individualized health care team as described in subdivision (d) of Section 17710.

(f) “Intensive support needs” means the consumer requires physical assistance in performing four or more of the following activities of daily living:

(1) Eating.

(2) Dressing.

(3) Bathing.

(4) Transferring.

(5) Toileting.

(6) Continence.

(g) “Special health care needs” for an ARFPSHN means the consumer has health conditions that are predictable and stable, as determined by the individual health care plan team, and for which the individual requires nursing supports for any of the following types of care:

(1) Nutrition support, including total parenteral feeding and gastrostomy feeding, and hydration.

(2) Cardiorespiratory monitoring.

(3) Oxygen support, including continuous positive airway pressure and bilevel positive airway pressure, and use of other inhalation-assistive devices.

(4) Nursing interventions for tracheostomy care and suctioning.

(5) Nursing interventions for colostomy, ileostomy, or other medical or surgical procedures.

(6) Special medication regimes including injection and intravenous medications.

(7) Management of insulin-dependent diabetes.

(8) Bowel care management, including enemas or suppositories.

(9) Indwelling urinary catheter/catheter procedure.

(10) Treatment for antimicrobial resistant infections.

(11) Treatment for wounds or pressure injuries.

(12) Postoperative care and rehabilitation.

(13) Pain management and palliative care.

(14) Renal dialysis.

(h) “Special health care needs” for a GHCSHN means a predictable and stable condition, as determined by the individual health care plan team, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (e), that can rapidly deteriorate, resulting in permanent injury or death, or that requires specialized in-home health care, as described in subdivisions (a) and (g) of Section 17710.

(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 76, Sec. 34. (AB 136) Effective July 16, 2021.)