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1569.695
. (a) In addition to any other requirement of this chapter,
a residential care facility for the elderly shall have an emergency
plan that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Evacuation procedures.
(2) Plans for the facility to be self-reliant for a period of not
less than 72 hours immediately following any emergency or disaster,
including, but not limited to, a long-term power failure.
(3) Transportation needs and evacuation procedures to ensure that
the facility can communicate with emergency response personnel or can
access the information necessary in order to check the emergency
routes to be used at the time of an evacuation and relocation
necessitated by a disaster.
(4) Procedures that address, but are not limited to, all of the
following:
(A) Provision of emergency power that could include identification
of suppliers of backup generators.
(B) Responding to individual residents' needs in the event the
emergency call buttons are inoperable.
(C) Process for communicating with residents, families, hospice
providers, and others, as appropriate, that might include landline
telephones, cellular telephones, or walkie-talkies.
(D) Assistance with, and administration of, medications.
(E) Storage and preservation of medications.
(F) The operation of assistive medical devices that need electric
power for their operation, including, but not limited to, oxygen
equipment and wheelchairs.
(G) A process for identifying residents with special needs, such
as hospice, and a plan for meeting those needs.
(b) Each facility subject to this section shall make the plan
available upon request to residents onsite and available to local
emergency responders.
(c) The department's Community Care Licensing Division shall
confirm, during comprehensive licensing visits, that the plan is on
file at the facility.
(d) Nothing in this section shall create a new or additional
requirement for the department to evaluate the emergency plan. The
department shall only verify that the plan is on file at the time of
the comprehensive inspection.
(e) This subdivision shall not apply to residential care
facilities for the elderly that have obtained a certificate of
authority to offer continuing care contracts, as defined in paragraph
(5) of subdivision (c) of Section 1771.
(f) This section shall become operative on March 1, 2009.