Section R4-23-703. Assisted Living Facilities

A.      Assisted living facilities are licensed by the state Department of Health Services.

B.       A pharmacy shall:

1.        Only dispense, sell, or deliver a prescription or nonpre- scription drug to an assisted living facility resident after receiving a prescription order for the drug from the resi- dent's medical practitioner;

2.        Label, in  accordance with A.R.S.  §§ 32-1963.01, 32- 1968, and 36-2525, all drugs dispensed, sold, or delivered to an assisted living facility resident;

3.        Obtain a copy of the current Arizona Department of Health Services license issued to an assisted living facil- ity before dispensing drugs to that facility's resident; and

4.        Maintain, for inspection by a Board compliance officer, a file containing the license copy required in subsection (B)(3).

C.      In addition to the labeling requirements of  A.R.S. §§  32- 1963.01, 32-1968, and 36-2525, the label on a prescription medication for an assisted living facility resident shall include the name, strength, and quantity of the drug and a beyond-use date.

D.      If the label on an assisted living facility resident's drug con- tainer becomes damaged or soiled, a pharmacist employed by the pharmacy that dispensed the drug container, through the exercise of professional judgment, may relabel the drug con- tainer. Only a pharmacist is permitted to label a drug container or alter the label of a drug container.

E.       A pharmacist may help assisted living facility personnel to develop written policies and procedures for the procurement, administration, storage, control, recordkeeping, and disposal of drugs in the facility and provide other information concern- ing drugs that assisted living facilities should have for safe and effective supervision of drug self-administration.

F.       A pharmacy shall not place an emergency drug supply unit as defined in R4-23-701.02 or an automated dispensing system as defined in R4-23-701.04 in an assisted living facility.

G.      Drugs previously dispensed to a resident of the assisted living facility by another pharmacy, and drugs previously dispensed by the provider pharmacy, shall not be repackaged.

Historical Note

Former Rules 6.8310, 6.8320, 6.8330, 6.8340, 6.8350,

6.8360, and 6.8370; Amended effective August 10, 1978 (Supp. 78-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 5 A.A.R. 2561, effective July 16, 1999 (Supp. 99-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 2894, effective November 10, 2013 (Supp. 13-3).