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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 63. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

  § 63-330.51. Definitions.  

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  • For the purposes of this act, and as used herein:

    1.  “Board” means the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners for Long-Term Care Administrators;

    2.  “Long-term care administrator” means a person licensed or certified as a nursing facility administrator, an assisted living facility administrator, a residential care facility administrator, or an adult day care center administrator pursuant to this act.  A long-term care administrator must devote at least one-half (1/2) of such person’s working time to on-the-job supervision of a long-term care facility; provided that this requirement shall not apply to an administrator of an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded with sixteen or fewer beds (ICF-MR/16), in which case the person licensed by the state may be in charge of more than one ICF-MR/16, if such facilities are located within a circle that has a radius of not more than fifteen (15) miles, and the total number of facilities and beds does not exceed six facilities and sixty-four beds.  The facilities may be free-standing in a community or may be on campus with a parent institution.  The ICF-MR/16 may be independently owned and operated or may be part of a larger institutional ownership and operation;

    3.  “Nursing facility administrator” means a person licensed by the State of Oklahoma to perform the duties of an administrator serving in a skilled nursing or nursing or ICF/MR facility;

    4.  “Assisted living facility administrator” means a person licensed or certified by the State of Oklahoma to perform the duties of an administrator serving in an assisted living facility;

    5.  “Residential care facility administrator” means a person licensed or certified by the State of Oklahoma to perform the duties of an administrator serving in a residential care facility;

    6.  “Adult day care center administrator” means a person licensed or certified by the State of Oklahoma to perform the duties of an administrator serving in an adult day care center; and

    7.  “Nursing home”, “rest home” and “specialized home” shall have the same meaning as the term “nursing facility” as such term is defined in the Nursing Home Care Act; “assisted living center” and “continuum of care facility” shall have the same meaning as such terms are defined in the Continuum of Care and Assisted Living Act; “home” and “residential care home” shall have the same meaning as the terms are used in the Residential Care Act; and “adult day care center” and “center” shall have the same meaning as such terms are used in the Adult Day Care Act.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 100, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1968.  Amended by Laws 1991, c. 168, § 1, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 1995, c. 289, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1996, c. 118, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 2005, c. 168, § 1, emerg. eff. May 13, 2005; Laws 2006, c. 291, § 1, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2011, c. 192, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.