Good afternoon,
The below message was issued today from the Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR) Adult Care Licensure Section. As background, the Emergency Rules for infection control rules were put in place in October of this year in response to COVID-19, have now been made into Temporary Rules. NCSLA provided comment to the emergency rules and some changes were made in the Temporary Rules that we believe will make complying with the rules more straight forward. In addition, NCSLA contracted with a consultant to generate policies and procedures that will assist providers in complying with the new rules and can be found on the NCSLA website Here (click on Infection Prevention COVID-19 to access the policies and procedures in both Microsoft Word and PDF)
. If there are questions regarding the rules, contact DHSR at the email in the below message or contact Jeff Horton at NCSLA at email: jeff@ncseniorliving.org or phone at:
919-787-2526.
Jeff Horton, Executive Director
(From DHSR)
On December 17, 2020, the N.C. Rules Review Commission approved adult care home rules 10A NCAC 13F .1801 & .1802 and family care homes rules 10A NCAC 13G .1701 & .1702 governing infection prevention and control for temporary adoption. The rules are effective today, December 30, 2020. Temporary rules are effective for 270 days and replace the emergency rules that became effective on October 23, 2020. See below for a copy of the updated rules.
