Part 300 skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities code

Please read the regulation bullet points and make them into a Policy and Procedure for prevention of Social Isolation in Long Term Care Facilities. Each point shuld not be longer than 2-3 sentinces.
TITLE 77: PUBLIC HEALTH CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SUBCHAPTER c: LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
PART 300 SKILLED NURSING AND INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES CODE SECTION 300.3340 SOCIAL ISOLATION • Each facility shall adopt and implement written policies that provide for the availability of assistive and supportive technology and devices to facility residents. Facilities shall ensure that appropriate staff are in place to help prevent the social isolation of facility residents. • The virtual visitation policies shall not be interpreted as a substitute for in-person visitation, but shall be wholly in addition to existing in-person visitation policies. • Authorization and inclusion of specific protocols and procedures to encourage and enable residents of the facility to engage in in-person contact, communication, religious activity, and recreational activity with other facility residents and with family members, friends, loved ones, caregivers, and other external support systems, except when prohibited, restricted, or limited by federal or State statute, rule, regulation, executive order, or guidance;
• Authorization and inclusion of specific protocols and procedures to encourage and enable residents to engage in face-to-face, verbal-based, or auditory-based contact, communication, religious activity, and recreational activity with other facility residents and with family members, friends, loved ones, caregivers, and other external support systems through the use of electronic or virtual means and methods, including, but not limited to, computer technology, the Internet, social media, videoconferencing, videophone, and other innovative technological means or methods, whenever the resident is subject to restrictions that limit his or her ability to engage in in-person contact, communication, religious activity, or recreational activity as authorized by subsection (d)(1) and when the technology requested is not being used by other residents in the event of a limited number of items of technology in a facility;
• A mechanism for residents of the facility or the residents’ representatives to request access to assistive and supportive technology and devices as may be necessary to facilitate the residents’ engagement in face-to-face, verbal-based, or auditory-based contact, communication, religious activity, and recreational activity with other residents, family members, friends, and other external support systems, through electronic means.
• Specific administrative policies, procedures, and protocols governing: A) The acquisition, maintenance, and replacement of assistive and supportive technology and devices;
B) The use of environmental barriers and other controls when the assistive and supportive technology and devices acquired pursuant to subsection (4)(A) are in use, especially in cases where the assistive and supportive technology and devices are likely to become contaminated with bodily substances, are touched frequently, or are difficult to clean; and
C) The regular cleaning of the assistive and supportive technology and devices acquired pursuant to subsection and any environmental barriers or other physical controls used in association therewith; • A requirement that upon admission and at the request of a resident or the resident’s representative, appropriate staff shall develop and update an individualized virtual visitation schedule while taking into account the individual’s requests and preferences with respect to the residents’ participation in social interactions and religious and recreational activities;
• A requirement that appropriate staff, upon the request of a resident or the resident’s family members, guardian, or representative, shall develop an individualized virtual visitation schedule for the resident, which shall:
A) Address the need for a virtual visitation schedule and establish a virtual visitation schedule if deemed to be appropriate;
B) Identify the assessed needs and preferences of the resident and any preferences specified by the resident’s representative, unless a preference specified by the resident conflicts with a preference specified by the resident’s representative, in which case the resident’s preference shall take priority;
C) Document the facility’s defined virtual hours of visitation and inform the resident and the resident’s representative that virtual visitation pursuant to subsection (d)(2) will adhere to the defined visitation hours;
D) Describe the location within the facility and assistive and supportive technology and devices to be used in virtual visitation; and
E) Describe the respective responsibilities of staff, visitors, and the resident when engaging in virtual visitation pursuant to the individualized visitation plan;
• A requirement that, upon admission and at the request of the resident or the resident’s representative, the facility provides notification to the resident and the resident’s representative that they have the right to request of facility staff the creation and review of a resident’s individualized virtual visitation schedule;
• A requirement that, upon admission and at the request of the resident or resident’s representative, the facility provide, in writing to the resident or resident’s representative, virtual visitation hours, how to schedule a virtual visitation, and how to request assistive and supportive technology and devices;
• Specific policies, protocols, and procedures governing a resident’s requisition, use, and return of assistive and supportive technology and devices maintained pursuant to subsection (4)(A) and require appropriate staff to communicate those policies, protocols, and procedures to residents; and
• The designation of at least one member of the therapeutic recreation or activities department, or, if the facility does not have this department, the designation of at least one senior staff member, as determined by facility management, to train other appropriate facility employees, including, but not limited to, activities professionals and volunteers, social workers, occupational therapists, and therapy assistants, to provide direct assistance to residents upon request and on an as-needed basis, as necessary to ensure that each resident is able to successfully access and use, for the purposes specified in subsections (d)(2) and (3), the assistive and supportive technology and devices acquired pursuant to subsection (4)(A). (Section 3-102.3(c) of the Act)
• Specific protocols and procedures shall be developed to ensure that the quantity of assistive and supportive technology and devices maintained on-site at the facility remains sufficient, at all times, to meet the assessed social and activity needs and preferences of each facility resident. Residents’ family members or caregivers shall be considered, as appropriate, in the assessment and reassessment.