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Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 27. LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS

43-27-1. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of a long-term care facility.#

  3. (2)

    “Assisted living community” means a facility licensed pursuant to Code Section 31-7-12.2.#

  4. (3)

    “Assisted living community administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of an assisted living community.#

  5. (4)

    “Board” means the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators.#

  6. (5)

    “Long-term care facility” means a personal care home, an assisted living community, or a nursing home.#

  7. (6)

    “Nursing home” has the same meaning as prescribed by the Department of Community Health in the rules and regulations for nursing homes.#

  8. (7)

    “Nursing home administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises or is in charge of a nursing home.#

  9. (8)

    “Personal care home” means a facility licensed pursuant to Code Section 31-7-12 which has 25 or more beds.#

  10. (9)

    “Personal care home administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of a personal care home.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1968, p. 1143, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 573, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 846, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2020, p. 95, § 9/HB 987. The 2020 amendment, effective June 30, 2020, added paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), (8), and (9); redesignated former paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as present paragraphs (4), (6), and (7), respectively; substituted “Long Term Care Facility Administrators” for “Nursing Home Administrators” in paragraph (4); and deleted “or” following “manages,” in paragraph (7).

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, “this” was substituted for “the” in the introductory language.

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