{"data":{"id":"us-va/12vac35-105-1290","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"12VAC35-105-1290","heading":"Service requirements for providers of gero-psychiatric residential services","body":"A. Providers shall provide mental health, nursing and rehabilitative services; medical and psychiatric services; and pharmaceutical services for each individual as specified in the  ISP.\n\nB. Providers shall provide crisis stabilization services.\n\nC. Providers shall  implement written policies and procedures that support an active program of mental health and behavioral management services directed toward assisting each individual to achieve outcomes consistent with the highest level of self-care, independence, and quality of life. Programming may be on-site or at another location in the community.\n\nD. Providers shall  implement written policies and procedures that respond to the nursing needs of each individual to achieve outcomes consistent with the highest level of self-care, independence, and quality of life. Providers shall be responsible for:\n\n1. Providing each individual services to prevent clinically avoidable complications, including: skin care, dexterity and mobility, continence, hydration, and nutrition;\n\n2. Giving each individual proper daily personal attention and care, including skin, nail, hair, and oral hygiene, in addition to any specific care ordered by the attending physician;\n\n3. Dressing each individual in clean clothing and encouraging each individual to wear day clothing when out of bed;\n\n4. Providing each individual tub or shower baths as often as needed, but not less than twice weekly  or a sponge bath daily if the medical condition prohibits tub or shower baths;\n\n5. Providing each individual appropriate pain management; and\n\n6. Ensuring that each individual has his own personal utensils, grooming items, adaptive devices, and other personal belongings including those with sentimental value.\n\nE. Providers shall integrate  behavioral and mental health care and  medical and nursing care in the  ISP.\n\nF. Providers shall have available nourishment between scheduled meals.","path":["Title 12. Health","Agency 35. Department of Behavioral Health And Developmental Services","Chapter 105. Rules and Regulations for Licensing Providers by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services","Part VI. Additional Requirements for Selected Services","Article 6. Community Gero-Psychiatric Residential Services"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title12/agency35/chapter105/section1290/","current_through":"2026 Regular Session (effective July 1, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:28Z","sha256":"681ed019c33266c64bd563c637325f356e34ad065aa51f418b6ea0a54978e4fd","source_id":"us-va-vac","stale":false,"prev":"us-va/12vac35-105-1280","next":"us-va/12vac35-105-1300"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}