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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 553LICENSING STANDARDS FOR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
SUBCHAPTER C
RULE §553.41Standards for Type A and Type B Assisted Living Facilities
Repealed Date:08/31/2021

    (T) preventive health needs (i.e., blood pressure monitoring, hearing-vision assessment).

  (2) The service plan must be approved and signed by the resident or a person responsible for the resident's health care decisions. The facility must provide care according to the service plan. The service plan must be updated annually and upon a significant change in condition, based upon an assessment of the resident.

  (3) For respite clients, the facility may keep a service plan for six months from the date on which it is developed. During that period, the facility may admit the individual as frequently as needed.

  (4) Emergency admissions must be assessed and a service plan developed for them.

(d) Resident policies.

  (1) Before admitting a resident, facility staff must explain and provide a copy of the disclosure statement to the resident, family, or responsible party. An assisted living facility that provides brain injury rehabilitation services must attach to its disclosure statement a specific statement that licensure as an assisted living facility does not indicate state review, approval, or endorsement of the facility's rehabilitative services. The facility must document receipt of the disclosure statement.

  (2) The facility must provide residents with a copy of the Resident Bill of Rights.

  (3) When a resident is admitted, the facility must provide to the resident's immediate family, and document the family's receipt of, the DADS telephone hotline number to report suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation, as referenced in §92.102 of this chapter (relating to Abuse, Neglect, or Exploitation Reportable to DADS).

  (4) The facility must have written policies regarding residents accepted, services provided, charges, refunds, responsibilities of facility and residents, privileges of residents, and other rules and regulations.

  (5) Each facility must make available copies of the resident policies to staff and to residents or residents' responsible parties at time of admission. Documented notification of any changes to the policies must occur before the effective date of the changes.

  (6) Before or upon admission of a resident, a facility must notify the resident and, if applicable, the resident's legally authorized representative, of DADS rules and the facility's policies related to restraint and seclusion.

(e) Admission policies.

  (1) A facility must not admit or retain a resident whose needs cannot be met by the facility or who cannot secure the necessary services from an outside resource. As part of the facility's general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being of its residents, the facility remains responsible for all care provided at the facility. If the individual is appropriate for placement in a facility, then the decision that additional services are necessary and can be secured is the responsibility of facility management with written concurrence of the resident, resident's attending physician, or legal representative. Regardless of the possibility of "aging in place" or securing additional services, the facility must meet all Life Safety Code requirements based on each resident's evacuation capabilities, except as provided in subsection (f) of this section.

  (2) There must be a written admission agreement between the facility and the resident. The agreement must specify such details as services to be provided and the charges for the services. If the facility provides services and supplies that could be a Medicare benefit, the facility must provide the resident a statement that such services and supplies could be a Medicare benefit.

  (3) A facility must share a copy of the facility disclosure statement, rate schedule, and individual resident service plan with outside resources that provide any additional services to a resident. Outside resources must provide facilities with a copy of their resident care plans and must document, at the facility, any services provided, on the day provided.

  (4) Each resident must have a health examination by a physician performed within 30 days before admission or 14 days after admission, unless a transferring hospital or facility has a physical examination in the medical record.

  (5) The assisted living facility must secure at the time of admission of a resident the following identifying information:

    (A) full name of resident;

    (B) social security number;

    (C) usual residence (where resident lived before admission);

    (D) sex;

    (E) marital status;

    (F) date of birth;

    (G) place of birth;

    (H) usual occupation (during most of working life);

    (I) family, other persons named by the resident, and physician for emergency notification;

    (J) pharmacy preference; and

    (K) Medicaid/Medicare number, if available.

(f) Inappropriate placement in Type A or Type B facilities.

  (1) DADS or a facility may determine that a resident is inappropriately placed in the facility if a resident experiences a change of condition but continues to meet the facility evacuation criteria.

    (A) If DADS determines the resident is inappropriately placed and the facility is willing to retain the resident, the facility is not required to discharge the resident if, within 10 working days after receiving the Statement of Licensing Violations and Plan of Correction, Form 3724, and the Report of Contact, Form 3614-A, from DADS, the facility submits the following to the DADS regional office:

      (i) Physician's Assessment, Form 1126, indicating that the resident is appropriately placed and describing the resident's medical conditions and related nursing needs, ambulatory and transfer abilities, and mental status;

      (ii) Resident's Request to Remain in Facility, Form 1125, indicating that:

        (I) the resident wants to remain at the facility; or

        (II) if the resident lacks capacity to provide a written statement, the resident's family member or legally authorized representative wants the resident to remain at the facility; and

      (iii) Facility Request, Form 1124, indicating that the facility agrees that the resident may remain at the facility.

    (B) If the facility initiates the request for an inappropriately placed resident to remain in the facility, the facility must complete and date the forms described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph and submit them to the DADS regional office within 10 working days after the date the facility determines the resident is inappropriately placed, as indicated on the DADS prescribed forms.

  (2) DADS or a facility may determine that a resident is inappropriately placed in the facility if the facility does not meet all requirements referenced in §92.3 of this chapter (relating to Types of Assisted Living Facilities) for the evacuation of a designated resident.

    (A) If, during a site visit, DADS determines that a resident is inappropriately placed at the facility and the facility is willing to retain the resident, the facility must request an evacuation waiver as described in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph to the DADS regional office within 10 working days after the date the facility receives the Statement of Licensing Violations and Plan of Correction, Form 372, and the Report of Contact, Form 3614-A. If the facility is not willing to retain the resident, the facility must discharge the resident within 30 days after receiving the Statement of Licensing Violations and Plan of Correction and the Report of Contact.

    (B) If the facility initiates the request for a resident to remain in the facility, the facility must request an evacuation waiver as described in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph from the DADS regional office within 10 working days after the date the facility determines the resident is inappropriately placed, as indicated on the DADS prescribed forms.

    (C) To request an evacuation waiver for an inappropriately placed resident, a facility must submit to the DADS regional office:

      (i) Physician's Assessment, Form 1126, indicating that the resident is appropriately placed and describing the resident's medical conditions and related nursing needs, ambulatory and transfer abilities, and mental status;

      (ii) Resident's Request to Remain in Facility, Form 1125, indicating that:

        (I) the resident wants to remain at the facility; or

        (II) if the resident lacks capacity to provide a written statement, the resident's family member or legally authorized representative wants the resident to remain at the facility;

      (iii) Facility Request, Form 1124, indicating that the facility agrees that the resident may remain at the facility;

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