Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 245D > COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL SETTINGS

• Adult: means an individual 18 years of age or older. See Minnesota Statutes 645.451
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Human Services or the commissioner's designated representative. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Community residential setting: means a residential program as identified in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Human Services. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Emergency: means any event that affects the ordinary daily operation of the program including, but not limited to, fires, severe weather, natural disasters, power failures, or other events that threaten the immediate health and safety of a person receiving services and that require calling 911, emergency evacuation, moving to an emergency shelter, or temporary closure or relocation of the program to another facility or service site for more than 24 hours. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Home and community-based services: means the services identified in section 245D. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Incident: means an occurrence which involves a person and requires the program to make a response that is not a part of the program's ordinary provision of services to that person, and includes:

  (1) serious injury of a person as determined by section 245. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02

• Legal representative: means the parent of a person who is under 18 years of age, a court-appointed guardian, or other representative with legal authority to make decisions about services for a person. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• License: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• License holder: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Person: has the meaning given in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Physician: means a person who is licensed under chapter 147. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Program: means either the nonresidential or residential program as defined in section 245A. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Service: means care, training, supervision, counseling, consultation, or medication assistance assigned to the license holder in the support plan. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• staff: means employees of the license holder who have direct contact with persons served by the program and includes temporary staff or subcontractors, regardless of employer, providing program services for hire under the control of the license holder who have direct contact with persons served by the program. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Supervision: means :

  (1) oversight by direct support staff as specified in the person's support plan or support plan addendum and awareness of the person's needs and activities;

  (2) responding to situations that present a serious risk to the health, safety, or rights of the person while services are being provided; and

  (3) the presence of direct support staff at a service site while services are being provided, unless a determination has been made and documented in the person's support plan or support plan addendum that the person does not require the presence of direct support staff while services are being provided. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02

• Support plan: has the meaning given in sections 256B. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Support plan addendum: means the documentation that this chapter requires of the license holder for each person receiving services. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Support team: means the service planning team identified in section 256B. See Minnesota Statutes 245D.02
• Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44