Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
Chapter 79. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Subchapter I. Establishment and Organization of Department

§ 7901. Establishment of Department of Health and Social Services. - A Department of Health and Social Services is established.

§ 7902. Secretary; Deputy Secretary; division directors; Acting Secretary; appointment. - (a) The administrator and head of the Department shall be...

§ 7903. Powers, duties and functions of the Secretary. - The Secretary may: (1) Supervise, direct and account for the...

§ 7904. Division of Public Health; Department of Health and Social Services. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Public Health...

§ 7905. Office of Women's Health. - (a) The Office of Women's Health is hereby established within...

§ 7905A. Office of Women's Health. - Transferred to § 7905 of this title.

§ 7906. Community services. - There are established within the Department of Health and Social...

§ 7907. Delaware Nursing Home Residents Quality Assurance Commission. - (a) There is established a Delaware Nursing Home Resident's Quality...

§ 7908. Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Substance Abuse...

§ 7908B. Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. - When a law-enforcement officer contacts Crisis Intervention Services or suspects...

§ 7909. Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Council. - (a) The Advisory Council to the Division of Substance Abuse...

§ 7909A. Division of Developmental Disabilities Services. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Developmental Disabilities...

§ 7910. Advisory Council to the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services. - (a) There is established the Advisory Council to the Division...

§ 7911. Division of Social Services. - The Division of Social Services is established having the power...

§ 7912. Council on Family Services. - (a) There is established the Council on Family Services. (b)...

§ 7913. Council on the Blind. - (a) The Council on the Blind is established. (b) The...

§ 7914. Volunteer services. - There are established within the Department of Health and Social...

§ 7914A. The Governor's Commission on Community and Volunteer Services. - (a) The Governor's Commission on Community and Volunteer Services is...

§ 7915. Council on Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities. - (a) There is established the Council on Services for Aging...

§ 7915A. Appointments to advisory commissions, boards and committees involved with the elderly. - The Governor, when making appointments to any advisory commission, board...

§ 7918. Drug Control Coordinator; duties; powers. - (a) The purpose of this section and of § 7919...

§ 7919. Division of State Service Centers. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of State Service...

§ 7920. Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Services for...

§ 7920A. Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities; Money Management Program. - (a) Definitions. — As used in this section, unless the...

§ 7921. Books, records; access; annual report of Governor's Council. - (a) The Governor's Council on Health and Social Services shall...

§ 7922. Exemptions. - The following positions set forth in this section shall be...

§ 7923. Assumption of functions of prior agencies. - The Department, through appropriate divisions, subdivisions and offices, shall have...

§ 7924. Appeals. - Any and all rights of appeal now existing by law...

§ 7925. Definitions and references in other laws. - (a) All definitions and references to any commission, board, department,...

§ 7926. Annual report. - The Secretary of the Department shall make an annual report...

§ 7927. Misnomer of Department in donation. - Any misnomer shall not defeat or annul any gift, grant,...

§ 7928. Budgeting and financing. - (a) The Secretary, in cooperation with the division directors, shall...

§ 7929. Division for the Visually Impaired. - (a) The Division for the Visually Impaired (“Division”) has the...

§ 7931. Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Medicaid and...

Subchapter II. The Chronic Renal Diseases Program

§ 7932. Establishment of a program. - The State Department of Health and Social Services, hereafter referred...

§ 7933. Advisory Committee. - The Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services,...

§ 7934. Powers and duties of the Secretary. - The Secretary shall: (1) With the advice of the Committee,...

§ 7935. Supremacy. - All other laws or parts of laws now in effect...

Subchapter III. Payment for Services

§ 7940. Financial liability of persons served by the Department. - (a) Any person committed to or accepting the services of...

§ 7941. Disclosure of income. - Notwithstanding § 1241 [repealed] of Title 30, the Secretary of...

Subchapter IV. Emergency Housing Fund

§ 7950. Emergency Housing Fund Administration Board. - The Emergency Housing Fund Administration Board is authorized to promulgate...

§ 7951. Definitions. - (a) “Department” means the Department of Health and Social Services....

§ 7953. Emergency Housing Assistance Fund. - (a) There is hereby created a special fund, which shall...

Subchapter V. Minimum Standards for Congregate Housing Facilities for the Homeless

§ 7960. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter, except where the context clearly...

§ 7961. Resident manager required. - The sponsor of any congregate housing facility shall be responsible...

§ 7962. Maintaining records. - (a) The sponsor and resident manager of any congregate housing...

§ 7963. Premises to be kept clean. - The sponsor and the resident manager shall be responsible for...

§ 7964. Standard of conduct. - The sponsor and resident manager of each congregate housing facility...

§ 7965. Enlistment of services to assist residents. - The sponsor or resident manager of a congregate housing facility...

§ 7966. Notification of authorities. - The sponsor or resident manager of each congregate housing facility...

§ 7967. Penalties. - Whoever violates the provisions of this subchapter is guilty of...

§ 7968. Enforcement authority. - The Department of Health and Social Services shall be responsible...

Subchapter VI. Division of Health Care Quality.

§ 7970. Intent. - (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that...

§ 7971. Division of Health Care Quality. - (a) There is hereby established the Division of Health Care...

§ 7972. Background Check Center. - (a) Purpose. (1) It is the purpose of this section...

Subchapter VII. Occupational Health Program

§ 7980. Establishment of a program. - (a) The Division of Public Health under the direction and...

§ 7981. Assessment of occupational exposure to hazardous substances. - (a) For the purpose of this subchapter, a hazardous substance...

§ 7982. Education and outreach. - The Department of Labor's Office of Occupational Safety and Health...

Subchapter VIII. Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Program for the Prevention of AIDS and Other Diseases

§ 7990. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Director” means the Director...

§ 7991. Establishment of program. - The Director of the State Division of Public Health shall...

§ 7992. Operation of the program. - The program shall: (1) Operate for the purposes of: a....

§ 7993. Criminal liability. - (a) Exchanges under the sterile needle and syringe exchange program...

§ 7994. Oversight Committee. - The Director shall appoint an Oversight Committee for the program...

§ 7995. Data collection and program reports. - The program shall collect the following data for the Director...

§ 7996. Identification of participants and confidentiality. - (a) Each program participant shall be issued an identification card...

Subchapter IX. Office of Financial Empowerment

§ 7997. Office of Financial Empowerment. - (a) The Office of Financial Empowerment is hereby established within...

Subchapter X. Background Checks for Employees, Contractors, and Volunteers

§ 7998. Purpose; application; definitions. - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to protect the...

§ 7999. Background checks for employees, contractors, and volunteers of the Department. - (a) An employee, contractor, or volunteer of the Department who...

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Delaware Code Title 29 - State Government Chapter 79. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES

Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
Chapter 79. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES