The Terrace Opt-Out Provisions for Facial Coverings or Mask:
Purpose: In efforts to ensure health care choices for residents and visitors in accordance with current law,
The Terrace Assisted Living implements a facial covering policy (Mask Policy) while recognizing that
Florida law provides for exceptions to the business prohibitions on face coverings. This policy takes into
account the exception provided for in law for healthcare-related facilities.
Policy: It is the policy of The Terrace Assisted Living to allow residents, families, and guests the
freedom to make their own choices to live a free and unrestricted life at The Terrace Assisted Living. In
doing so we will continue to provide a policy that provides for choice and independence in accordance
with Florida law.
Facial Coverings: Mask or other facial coverings shall be required only when a resident is in a common
area and exhibiting signs or symptoms of or has a diagnosed infectious disease that can be spread
through droplet or airborne transmission.
Facial Covering/Mask are Appropriate in the Following Circumstances Only:
- Health care practitioners and/or healthcare providers may choose to require a resident to wear
a facial covering only when the residents is in a common area of the health care setting and is
exhibiting signs or symptoms of or has a diagnosed infectious disease that can be spread
through droplet or airborne transmission. - Healthcare practitioners and/or healthcare providers may choose to require a visitor to wear a
facial covering only when the visitor is:
a) Exhibiting signs or symptoms of or has a diagnosed infectious disease that can be spread
through droplet or airborne transmission;
b) In sterile areas of the health care setting or an area where sterile procedures are being
performed;
c) In treatment rooms or the resident’s room who is exhibiting signs or symptoms of or has a
diagnosed infectious disease that can be spread through droplet or airborne transmission;
or
d) Visiting a resident whose treating health care practitioner has diagnosed the resident with
or confirmed a condition affecting the immune system in a manner which is known to
increase risk of transmission of an infection from employees without signs or symptoms of
infection to a resident whose treating practitioner has determined that the use of facial
coverings are necessary for the resident’s safety,
a) Residents at The Terrace can opt-out of wearing a facial covering.
b) Visitors to The Terrace can opt-out of wearing a facial covering if an alternative method of
infection control or infectious disease prevention is available.
c) A The Terrace employees shall be allowed to opt-out of facial covering requirements unless the
employee is:
- Conducting sterile procedures,
- Working in a sterile area,
- Working with a resident whose treating health care practitioner has diagnosed the resident with
or confirmed a condition affecting the immune system in a manner which is known to increase
risk of transmission of an infection from employees without signs or symptoms of infection to a
resident and whose treating practitioner has determined that the use of facial coverings is
necessary for the resident’s safety, - With a resident on droplet or airborne isolation, or
- Engaging in non-clinical potentially hazardous activities that require facial coverings to prevent
physical injury or harm in accordance with industry standards.
Effective Date: August 1, 2023 Rule 59AER23-2 Chapter: 408.802, F. S.
