SKILLED LEVEL OF CARE definition

SKILLED LEVEL OF CARE means the following services when delivered by licensed medical personnel in accordance with a medical care plan requiring a continuing assessment of needs and monitoring of response to plan of care; and such services are required on a 24-hour/day basis. The services must be reasonable and necessary to the treatment of the individual's illness or injury, i.e., be consistent with the nature and severity of the individual's illness or injury, the individual's particular medical needs, accepted standards of medical practice, and in terms of duration and amount.• Intermuscular or subcutaneous injections if the use of licensed medical personnel is necessary to teach an individual or the individual's caregiver the procedure.• Intravenous injections and hypodermoclysis or intravenous feedings.• Levin tubes and nasogastric tubes.• Nasopharyngeal and tracheostomy aspiration.• Application of dressings involving prescription medication and aseptic techniques.• Treatment of Stage III or Stage IV decubitus ulcers or other widespread skin disorders that are in Stage III or Stage IV.• Heat treatments which have been specifically ordered by a physician as a part of active treatment and which require observation by nurses to adequately evaluate the individual's progress.• Initial phases of a regimen involving administration of medical gases.• Rehabilitation procedures, including the related teaching and adaptive aspects of nursing/therapies, that are part of active treatment, to obtain a specific goal and not as maintenance of existing function.• Ventilator care and maintenance.• The insertion, removal and maintenance of gastrostomy feeding tubes.

SKILLED LEVEL OF CARE means the following services when delivered by licensed medical personnel in accordance with a medical care plan requiring a continuing assessment of needs and monitoring of response to plan of care; and such services are required on a 24-hour/day basis. The services must be reasonable and necessary to the treatment of the individual's illness or injury, i.e., be consistent with the nature and severity of the individual's illness or injury, the individual's particular medical needs, accepted standards of medical practice and in terms of duration and amount.

Examples of SKILLED LEVEL OF CARE in a sentence

• SKILLED LEVEL OF CARE means the following services when delivered by licensed medical personnel in accordance with a medical care plan requiring a continuing assessment of needs and monitoring of response to plan of care; and such services are required on a 24-hour/day basis.