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Formal Consolidation |  1990 RevEd
Provision of facilities and services
5.  The licensee shall —
(a)provide recreational facilities for residents;
(b)provide, where necessary, occupational therapy and physiotherapy for residents;
(c)provide a counselling service for residents;
(d)provide suitable facilities for visits to the home by care persons and encourage care persons to maintain regular contacts with residents;
(e)provide every resident with a locker or storage space of such size as is sufficient to contain the personal effects, such as clothing, of the resident;
(f)provide every resident with a bed space of not less than 3.5 square metres and the distance between the beds shall not be less than one metre to facilitate wheelchair movement and the placement of a screen around a bed whenever required;
(g)put up a written menu for meals for residents and provide suitable and properly prepared food for the residents;
(h)employ suitably qualified and competent care staff and nurses in numbers which shall be determined by the Director having regard to the number, age, sex and condition of residents; and
(i)make arrangements for residents to receive, where necessary, medical services from a medical practitioner.
Informal Consolidation | Amended S 524/2020
Provision of facilities and services
5.  The licensee shall —
(a)provide recreational facilities for residents;
(b)provide, where necessary, occupational therapy and physiotherapy for residents;
(c)provide a counselling service for residents;
(d)provide suitable facilities for visits to the home by care persons and encourage care persons to maintain regular contacts with residents;
(e)provide every resident with a locker or storage space of such size as is sufficient to contain the personal effects, such as clothing, of the resident;
(f)provide every resident with a bed space of not less than 3.5 square metres and the distance between the beds shall not be less than one metre to facilitate wheelchair movement and the placement of a screen around a bed whenever required;
(g)put up a written menu for meals for residents and provide suitable and properly prepared food for the residents;
(h)employ suitably qualified and competent care staff and nurses in numbers which shall be determined by the Director-General having regard to the number, age, sex and condition of residents; and
[S 524/2020 wef 01/07/2020]
(i)make arrangements for residents to receive, where necessary, medical services from a medical practitioner.