6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1011-1-5-11

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024

Section 6 CCR 1011-1-5-11 - RESIDENT ENGAGEMENT

11.1 ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

The facility shall offer a program of organized engagement activities that promote residents' physical, social, mental and intellectual well-being; encourages resident independence and pursuit of interests; maintains an optimal level of psycho-social functioning; and retains in residents a sense of continuing usefulness to themselves and the community.

A) The activities program shall be broad enough in scope to stimulate participation of all residents, but no resident shall be compelled to participate in any activity. Each month, activities shall include at least one from each of the following categories: social/recreational, intellectual, physical, spiritual and creative.

B) The facility shall provide individual and group engagement activities designed to meet each resident's individual needs.

C) Activities staff shall participate in resident assessment and care planning and shall implement engagement programs.

D) The facility shall develop programs to encourage community contact, including use of community volunteers inside the facility and engagement activities for residents outside the facility. The facility shall make reasonable transportation arrangements for residents to participate in such activities.

E) The facility shall provide engagement activities daily, including at least one evening per week. Engagement activities in addition to religious services shall be provided on weekends each week.

F) The facility shall have a means of communicating scheduled and spontaneous daily engagement activities to all residents.

G) The facility shall retain activity attendance records.

11.2STAFFING

A) The facility shall employ staff sufficient in number to meet resident needs.

B) The facility shall employ an activities director who meets at least one of the following criteria:

1) An activity professional certified by the National Certification Council for Activity Professionals as an Activity Director Certified (ADC) or Activity Consultant Certified (ACC),

2) An occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant meeting the requirements for certification by the American Occupational Therapy Association and having at least one year of experience in providing activity programming in a nursing care facility,

3) A therapeutic recreation specialist, registered by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification, having at least one year of experience in providing activity programming in a nursing care facility,

4) A person with a Master's or Bachelor's degree in the social or behavioral sciences who has at least one year of experience in providing activity programming in a nursing care facility,

5) A person who has completed, within a year of employment, a training course for activity professionals in an accredited state facility and who has at least two years experience in social or recreational program work, at least one year of which was full-time in an activities program in a health care setting, or

6) A person who has monthly consultation with a person meeting the qualifications set forth in subsections (1) through (5) above. The consultation shall be sufficient in amount to assist the activity staff members to meet resident needs.

11.3 RELIGIOUS SERVICES

The facility shall assist residents who are able and wish to do so to attend religious services of their choice. The facility shall honor resident requests to see their clergy and provide private space for such visits.

11.4 SPACE AND EQUIPMENT

The facility shall make available the supplies, space and equipment to provide an activities program that meets each resident's individual needs. The facility shall provide an activities and recreation area with items such as books, current newspapers, games, stationery, radio and television.

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