S-4.2, r. 0.01 - Regulation respecting the certification of private seniors’ residences

Section 14.1 Disposition versions

2022-12-15

14.1. The operator of a private seniors’ residence and the integrated health and social services centre concerned must enter into an agreement setting out the procedure for dispensing health services and social services to residents in cases requiring a sharing of responsibility, for the purpose of establishing a mechanism for collaboration.

The agreement must stipulate the parties’ commitment to promoting concerted and reciprocal actions to achieve its objectives. It must also establish a mechanism for collaboration applicable, in particular, following

(1)  a fall by a resident;

(2)  the return of a resident to the residence after a hospitalization; or

(3)  one of the occurrences referred to in subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the first paragraph of section 51, provided the integrated centre is notified.

The agreement must also specify the form of and procedure for the notification sent to the integrated centre in accordance with section 51.

In addition, the agreement must specify the procedure and the mechanism for collaboration applicable to fall prevention among residents and the control of infections at the residence, including an obligation for the operator of the residence

(1)  to make staff members aware of the existence of tools to prevent falls and to prevent and control infections, including the Guide de prévention des infections dans les résidences privées pour aînés and the Cadre de référence sur la prévention des chutes dans un continuum de services pour les aînés vivant à domicile, produced by the Minister;

(2)  to provide the necessary explanations concerning the use of the tools referred to in subparagraph 1 by staff members; and

(3)  to make the tools referred to in subparagraph 1 available in a place that is accessible to staff members.

Lastly, the agreement must provide for a mechanism to resolve disputes regarding the interpretation or application of the agreement.

In cases where more than one residence is operated by the same operator in the same congregate residential facility, the operator and the integrated centre concerned may enter into a single agreement concerning each residence. Where one of the residences is a category 4, the agreement must set out the procedure and the mechanism for collaboration applicable specifically to that residence.

O.C. 1574-2022, s. 13.