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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80315</law_id><section_number>38.2-4918</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-4920</reference><reference>38.2-4922</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="49">Continuing Care Providers and Community-Based Continuing Care Providers</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Community-Based Continuing Care Providers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article and Article 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Sale or transfer of ownership or change in management" href="/38.2-4924/">38.2-4924</a> et seq.):
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Community-based continuing care</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;CBCC&#x201D; means a program providing or committing to provide a range of services, including long-term care services, to an individual, other than an individual related by blood or marriage, (i) pursuant to an agreement, including mutually terminable <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>, effective for the life of the individual or for a period in excess of one year; and (ii) in consideration of the payment of an entrance fee. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Community-based continuing care</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;CBCC&#x201D; also means the provision of the enumerated services in the individual&#x2019;s private residence as long as medically feasible and the provision of facility-based long-term care services when required, either directly or indirectly through affiliated services or through contractual arrangements.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Community-based continuing care</span> entrance fee</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CBCC entrance fee</span>&#x201D; means an initial or deferred transfer to a <span class="dictionary">CBCC provider</span> of a sum of money or other property made or promised to be made in advance or at some future time as full or partial consideration for acceptance of a specified individual as a <span class="dictionary">participant</span>. A fee that in the aggregate is less than the sum of the regular periodic charges for one year of participation shall not be considered to be an entrance fee except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Escrow of entrance fee to community-based continuing care providers and others" href="/38.2-4922/">38.2-4922</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Community-based continuing care</span> provider</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CBCC provider</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, corporation, partnership, or other entity that provides or offers to provide <span class="dictionary">community-based continuing care</span> and that has operated a <span class="dictionary">Continuing Care Retirement Community facility</span> for a minimum of three years.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Continuing Care Retirement Community facility</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CCRC facility</span>&#x201D; means a facility, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-4900/">38.2-4900</a>, that is registered with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Registration" href="/38.2-4901/">38.2-4901</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Participant</span>&#x201D; means an individual who has entered into a <span class="dictionary">community-based continuing care</span> <span class="dictionary">contract</span>.
		&#x201C;Range of services&#x201D; means, without limitation, coordinated in-home care management, wellness programs, health assessments, health information and referral, home safety evaluation, homemaker services, assistance with activities of daily living, personal emergency response systems, chronic disease management, professional nursing services, services provided by a home care organization as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/32.1-162.7/">32.1-162.7</a>, facility-based assisted living care provided pursuant to Article 1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Licensure requirements" href="/63.2-1800/">63.2-1800</a> et seq.) of Chapter 18 of Title 63.2, and care in a certified nursing facility as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="(Effective January 1, 2026) Definitions" href="/32.1-123/">32.1-123</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Solicit</span>&#x201D; means all actions of a <span class="dictionary">CBCC provider</span> or his agent in seeking to have individuals enter into a <span class="dictionary">community-based continuing care</span> <span class="dictionary">contract</span> by any means such as, but not limited to, personal, telephone, or mail communication or other communication directed to and received by any individual, and any advertisements in any media distributed or communicated by any means to individuals.</p></section></text><history>2012, cc. 208, 303.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
