TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 16

IDAHO BOARD OF LONG-TERM CARE ADMINISTRATORS ACT

54-1602.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:

(1)  "Administrator designee" means a qualified individual filling a vacant nursing home administrator position pursuant to a signed agreement.

(2)  "Board" means the Idaho board of long-term care administrators, including both nursing home and residential care facility administrators.

(3)  "Hearing officer" means a person appointed by the board to hear a contested case.

(4)  "Long-term care administrator" means any individual that qualifies as a nursing home administrator or residential care facility administrator.

(5)  "Long-term care facility" means any nursing home or residential care facility.

(6)  "Nursing home" means a facility whose design and function shall provide area, space, and equipment to meet the health needs of two (2) or more individuals who, at a minimum, require inpatient care and services for twenty-four (24) or more consecutive hours for unstable chronic health problems requiring daily professional nursing supervision and licensed nursing care on a twenty-four (24) hour basis, restorative, rehabilitative care, and assistance in meeting daily living needs. Medical supervision is necessary on a regular, but not daily, basis.

(7)  "Nursing home administrator" means any individual responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling nursing home operations, or who in fact performs such functions, whether such functions are shared by one (1) or more other persons, and who is licensed under the provisions of this chapter.

(8)  "Nursing home administrator-in-training" means an individual registered as such under the provisions of this chapter.

(9)  "Practice of nursing home administration" means the planning, organizing, directing, and control of nursing home operations.

(10) "Practice of residential care facility administration" means the planning, organizing, directing, and control of residential care facility operations.

(11) "Provisional permit" means a temporary permit issued to a provisional residential care facility administrator under the provisions of this chapter.

(12) "Provisional residential care facility administrator" means an individual who has been issued a permit as such under the provisions of this chapter.

(13) "Residential care facility" means a residential or assisted living facility or residence, however named, operated on either a profit or nonprofit basis for the purpose of providing necessary supervision, personal assistance, meals, and lodging to three (3) or more elderly, developmentally disabled, physically disabled or mentally ill adults not related to the owner.

(14) "Residential care facility administrator" means any individual responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling residential care facility operations, or who in fact performs such functions, whether such functions are shared by one (1) or more other persons, and who is licensed under the provisions of this chapter.

History:

[54-1602, added 2025, ch. 98, sec. 3, p. 531.]