P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 1481d
The sponsor of the residence shall provide or make arrangements to provide health services pursuant to the following conditions:
(a) The rendering of high skilled and complex medical and nursing services are hereby restricted in all residences to legally authorized certified providers that do not have any sort of bonds with the residence in question. Said provider or external hospice shall not, pursuant to any circumstances, train or instruct the personnel of the residence in these areas. However, it may advise the personnel regarding aspects of health care that the resident must carry out by himself/herself, or that do not require specialized knowledge or procedures. The latter shall be allowed to the extent that the powers of the resident to manage his/her own treatment are not restricted.
(b) It shall be allowed to provide nursing services such as insulin injections, or other medication used daily for maintenance therapy provided by a certified health care services provider or a hospice authorized by law.
(c) Excluded from housing projects within the conceptual framework of assisted living are potential residents that require more than ninety (90) consecutive days of high skilled or complex medical treatment or nursing. Likewise, elderly persons who suffer seriously substantial physiological, cognitive or psychiatric conditions and incapacitating effects requiring intense, continuous and complex medical care, or who cannot self-administer a substantial part of their own treatment, nor sustain themselves without the continuous assistance of another person without risking their own safety are hereby excluded from the coverage of this chapter. Also beyond the scope of the housing projects pursuant to this chapter are elderly persons who require twenty four (24) hour high[ly] skilled medical attention.
History —Sept. 3, 2003, No. 244, § 7.