Each resident or applicant must be assessed according to items A to E based on the information on the assessment form completed in accordance with part 9549.0059.
A resident or applicant must be assessed as dependent in an activity of daily living or ADL according to the following table:
ADL | Dependent if Score At or Above |
Dressing | 2 |
Grooming | 2 |
Bathing | 4 |
Eating | 2 |
Bed mobility | 2 |
Transferring | 2 |
Walking | 2 |
Toileting | 1 |
A resident or applicant assessed as dependent in fewer than four of the ADLs in item A must be defined as Low ADL. A resident or applicant assessed as dependent in four through six of the ADLs in item A must be defined as Medium ADL. Each resident or applicant assessed as dependent in seven or eight of the ADLs in item A must be defined as High ADL.
A resident or applicant must be defined as special nursing if the resident or applicant meets the criteria in subitem (1) or (2):
the resident or applicant is assessed to require clinical monitoring every day on each shift and the resident is assessed to require one or more of the following special treatments:
A resident or applicant must be defined as having a neuromuscular condition if the resident or applicant is assessed to have one or more of the diagnoses coded to the categories in subitems (1) to (8) according to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), as published by the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities, 1968 Green Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1978). This publication is incorporated by reference. The publication is available through the Minitex interlibrary loan system and is not subject to frequent change.
neoplasms of the brain and spine (170.2, 170.6, 191, 192, 198.3, 198.4, 213.2, 213.6, 225, 237.5, 237.6, and 239.6).
A resident or applicant must be defined as having a behavioral condition if the resident's or applicant's assessment score is two or more for behavior on the assessment form.
The commissioner shall establish resident classes according to items A to K. The resident classes must be established based on the definitions in subpart 1.
The commissioner shall assign weights to each resident class established in subpart 2 according to items A to K.
11 SR 1990
October 11, 2007
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes