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What is Congregate Living Health Facility (CLHF)?
Congregate Living Health Facilities (CLHFs) are defined in H&S Code, Section 1250(i) (1), as a residential home with a capacity of no more than six beds, which provides inpatient care, including the following basic services: medical supervision, 24-hour skilled nursing and supportive care, pharmacy, dietary, social recreational, and at least one type of service specified in paragraph (2). The primary need of CLHF residents shall be for availability of skilled nursing care on a recurring, intermittent, extended, or continuous basis. The care is generally less intense than that provided in general acute care hospitals but more intense than that provided in skilled nursing facilities.
(a) a facility operated by a city and county for the purposes of delivering services under this section; may have a capacity of 59 beds (NOTE: This applies only to San Francisco).
(b) a facility not operated by a city and county serving persons who are terminally ill, persons who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or both, which is located in a county with a population of 500,000 or more; may have not more than 25 beds, for the purpose of serving terminally ill persons.
(c) a facility not operated by a city and count serving persons who are catastrophically and severely disabled which is located in a county of 500,000 or more; may not have more than 12 beds.
What services do Congregate Living Health Facilities Provide (CLHF's) ?
Congregate living health facilities provide one of the following services:
CLHF (A) - Services to persons who are mentally alert, physically disabled, who may be ventilator dependent,
CLHF (B) - Services for persons who have a diagnosis of a terminal illness, a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, or both. Terminal illness means the individual has a life expectancy of six months or less as stated in writing by his/her attending physician and surgeon. A "life-threatening illness" means the individual has an illness that can lead to a possibility of a termination of life within five years or less as stated in writing by his or her attending physician and surgeon.
CLHF (C) - Services for persons who are catastrophically and severely disabled. A catastrophically and severely disabled person means a person whose origin of disability was acquired through trauma or non-degenerative neurologic illness, for whom it has been determined that active rehabilitation would be beneficial and for whom these services would be provided. Services offered by a CLHF to a catastrophically disabled person shall include, but not be limited to, speech, physical, and occupational therapy.