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6.1.3 NURSING HOME DEFINITION

For ERP purposes, “nursing home” is a place that provides 24-hour services, including room and board, to three or more unrelated residents who, because of their mental or physical condition, require nursing or personal care more than seven hours a week.  This includes skilled nursing ( SNF ) and intermediate care facilities ( ICF Intermediate Care Facility ), in-patient psychiatric facilities and facilities for the developmentally disabled ( FDD ).  “Nursing home” does not include:

 

  1. A convent or facility owned or operated exclusively by and for members of a religious order that provides reception and care or treatment.
     

  2. A hospice, as defined in §50.90(1) Wis. Stats., that directly provides inpatient care.
     

  3.  Community Waiver residence.
     

  4. Institutions for mental disease ( IMD Institute for Mental Disease ) .

 

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Release Date: 01/01/01

Effective Date: 01/01/01