Final answer:
True. For admission to a facility, a resident must be free of communicable diseases. Several criteria need to be met to determine if a resident has a communicable disease.
Step-by-step explanation:
True. For admission to a facility, a resident must be free of communicable diseases. This is to protect the health of other residents and prevent the spread of infections. To determine if a resident has a communicable disease, several criteria must be met, such as the suspected pathogen being found in every case of the disease and not in healthy individuals, the pathogen can be isolated and grown in culture, and a healthy test subject infected with the pathogen would develop the same signs and symptoms of the disease.
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