G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 557 Disposition versions

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557. A Santé Québec authorization for the operation of a private seniors’ residence is required to operate an enterprise offering, in all or part of a congregate residential facility, rooms or dwellings for lease to a clientele composed mainly of persons 65 years of age or over, in addition to offering lessees various services, whose cost is included in the rent or is otherwise charged to them, in at least two of the following categories of services:

(1)  meal services;

(2)  personal assistance services;

(3)  nursing care services;

(4)  domestic help services;

(5)  security services; and

(6)  recreation services.

A regulation of Santé Québec defines each of the categories of services set out in the first paragraph. Such a regulation also provides for categories of private seniors’ residences based on the services offered by the authorization holder, including at least one category of residences offering services for independent elderly persons and one category of residences offering services for semi-independent elderly persons.

For the purposes of the first paragraph,

(1)  an operator is deemed to offer, in a congregate residential facility, rooms or dwellings to a clientele composed mainly of persons 65 years of age or over where the majority of the rooms or dwellings in the facility are occupied or are intended to be occupied by such persons;

(2)  services offered indirectly by the operator, in particular through a legal person or a partnership controlled by or that controls the operator or through another group with which the operator has entered into an agreement for that purpose, are deemed to be offered by the operator.

2023, c. 34, s. 557.