1. (a) The chief administrator of each facility shall assure that a list of individuals approved to visit each resident is maintained within the resident’s ECR.
2. (b) Prospective visitors shall complete and submit a “Visitor Registration Form” pursuant to Cor 305.15.
3. (c) Additionally, a “Prospective Visitor Consent for Background Check Form” shall be completed and submitted pursuant to Cor 305.17.
4. (d) A visitor shall not be listed on more than one approved visitors list of any resident, unless he or she is a member of the immediate family of each resident, as described within Cor 305.13(f).
5. (e) There shall be no limit on the number of eligible members of a resident’s immediate family who can be approved to visit.

6. (f) For the purpose of (e) above, immediate family shall include:

   1. (1) Husband;
   2. (2) Wife;
   3. (3) Children, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   4. (4) Mother, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   5. (5) Father, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   6. (6) Grandparents, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   7. (7) Brothers, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   8. (8) Sisters, either natural, adoptive, or step;
   9. (9) Aunts;
   10. (10) Uncles;
   11. (11) Brother’s spouse;
   12. (12) Sister’s spouse;
   13. (13) Legal civil union partners; and
   14. (14) Grandchildren.
7. (g) An additional 20 eligible visitors, who are not immediate family, may be added to a resident’s approved visitors list.
8. (h) Residents may submit a request utilizing a “Request Slip Form” pursuant to Cor 312, to remove individuals from his or her approved visitors list to ensure space is available for new eligible visitors to be added.
9. (i) Any visitor removed from one resident’s approved visitors list may not be placed on a different resident’s approved visitors list for a period of one year from the date of removal, unless the approved visitor is a family member as described within Cor 305.13(f).

Source. (See Revision Notes #1, #2, and #4 at chapter heading for Cor 300) #13154, eff 1-5-21