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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 22. Social Services |
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Agency 40. Department of Social Services |
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Chapter 72. Standards for Licensed Assisted Living Facilities |
Section 1020. Doors and windows
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A. Doors leading to the outside shall have a system of security monitoring of residents with serious cognitive impairments who cannot recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare, such as door alarms, cameras, constant staff oversight, security bracelets that are part of an alarm system, or delayed egress mechanisms. Residents with serious cognitive impairments who cannot recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare may be limited but not prohibited from exiting the facility or any part thereof. Before limiting any resident from freely leaving the facility, the resident's record shall reflect the behavioral observations or other bases for determining that the resident has a serious cognitive impairment and an inability to recognize danger or protect his own safety and welfare.
B. There shall be protective devices on the bedroom and the bathroom windows of residents with serious cognitive impairments who cannot recognize danger or protect their own safety and welfare and on windows in common areas accessible to these residents to prevent the windows from being opened wide enough for a resident to crawl through.
Historical Notes
Derived from Volume 23, Issue 06, eff. December 28, 2006.