N.M. Admin. Code § 8.370.16.35

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 8.370.16.35 - OTHER LIMITATIONS ON ADMISSION

A. Persons requiring unavailable services: Persons who require services which the facility does not provide or make available shall not be admitted or retained.

B. Communicable diseases:

(1) Restriction: No person suspected of having a disease in a communicable state shall be admitted or retained unless the facility has the means to manage the condition.

(2) Isolation techniques: Persons suspected of having a disease in a communicable state shall be managed according to isolation techniques for use in hospitals, published by the U.S. department of health and human services, public health services, center for disease control, or with comparable methods as developed by facility policies.

(3) Reportable diseases: Suspected diseases reportable by law shall be reported to the local public health agency and the division of health, bureau of community health and prevention within time frames specified by these agencies.

C. Destructive residents: Residents who are known to be destructive of property, self-destructive, disturbing or abusive to other residents, or suicide, shall not be admitted or retained, unless the facility has and uses sufficient resources to appropriately manage and care for them.

D. Developmental disabilities: No person who has a primary diagnosis of developmental disability may be admitted to a facility unless the facility is certified as in intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, except that a person who has a developmental disability and who requires skilled nursing care services may be admitted to a skilled nursing facility if approved for such level of care by the state developmental disability authority.

E. Mental illness: No person with a primary diagnosis of mental illness may be admitted to long term care facilities except that a person who has a diagnosis of mental illness and who requires skilled nursing care services may be admitted to a long term care facility if approved for such level of care by-the state mental illness authority.

F. Admission seven days a week: With prior approval, facilities shall take reasonable steps to admit residents seven days a week.

N.M. Admin. Code § 8.370.16.35

Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, June 25, 2024, eff. 7/1/2024