RCW 74.39A.010
Assisted living services and enhanced adult residential care—Contracts—Rules.
(1) To the extent of available funding, the department of social and health services may contract with licensed assisted living facilities under chapter 18.20 RCW and tribally licensed assisted living facilities for assisted living services and enhanced adult residential care. The department shall develop rules for facilities that contract with the department for assisted living services or enhanced adult residential care to establish:
(a) Facility service standards consistent with the principles in RCW 74.39A.051 and consistent with chapter 70.129 RCW;
(b) Standards for resident living areas consistent with RCW 74.39A.030;
(c) Training requirements for providers and their staff.
(2) The department's rules shall provide that services in assisted living and enhanced adult residential care:
(a) Recognize individual needs, privacy, and autonomy;
(b) Include, but not be limited to, personal care, nursing services, medication administration, and supportive services that promote independence and self-sufficiency;
(c) Are of sufficient scope to assure that each resident who chooses to remain in the assisted living or enhanced adult residential care may do so, to the extent that the care provided continues to be cost-effective and safe and promote the most appropriate level of physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being consistent with client choice;
(d) Are directed first to those persons most likely, in the absence of enhanced adult residential care or assisted living services, to need hospital, nursing facility, or other out-of-home placement; and
(e) Are provided in compliance with applicable facility and professional licensing laws and rules.
(3) When a facility contracts with the department for assisted living services or enhanced adult residential care, only services and facility standards that are provided to or in behalf of the assisted living services or enhanced adult residential care client shall be subject to the department's rules.
[ 2012 c 164 § 706; 2012 c 10 § 64; 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 § 14; 1993 c 508 § 3.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2012 c 10 § 64 and by 2012 c 164 § 706, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
Finding—Intent—Rules—Effective date—2012 c 164: See notes following RCW 18.88B.010.
Application—2012 c 10: See note following RCW 18.20.010.
Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—Effective date—1995 1st sp.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 74.39A.030.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 74.39A - Long-Term Care Services Options—Expansion.
74.39A.007 - Purpose and intent.
74.39A.010 - Assisted living services and enhanced adult residential care—Contracts—Rules.
74.39A.020 - Adult residential care—Contracts—Rules.
74.39A.030 - Expansion of home and community services—Payment rates.
74.39A.035 - Expansion of nutrition services through the meals on wheels program.
74.39A.040 - Department assessment of and assistance to hospital patients in need of long-term care.
74.39A.051 - Quality improvement principles.
74.39A.056 - Background checks on long-term care workers.
74.39A.058 - Long-term care workforce work group.
74.39A.074 - Training requirements for long-term care workers—Rules.
74.39A.076 - Training requirements for individual providers caring for family members.
74.39A.080 - Department authority to take actions in response to noncompliance or violations.
74.39A.100 - Chore services—Legislative finding, intent.
74.39A.120 - Chore services—Expenditure limitation—Priorities—Rule on patient resource limit.
74.39A.130 - Chore services—Department to develop program.
74.39A.140 - Chore services—Employment of public assistance recipients.
74.39A.150 - Chore services for persons with disabilities—Eligibility.
74.39A.155 - Support for persons at risk of institutional placement.
74.39A.160 - Transfer of assets—Penalties.
74.39A.180 - Authority to pay for probate actions and collection of bad debts.
74.39A.200 - Training curricula, materials—In public domain—Exceptions.
74.39A.210 - Disclosure of employee information—Employer immunity—Rebuttable presumption.
74.39A.261 - Background checks on individual providers—Department duties.
74.39A.300 - Funding process—Department-contracted individual providers.
74.39A.320 - Establishment of capital add-on rate—Determination of medicaid occupancy percentage.
74.39A.341 - Continuing education requirements for long-term care workers.
74.39A.351 - Advanced training.
74.39A.360 - Training partnership.
74.39A.370 - Addressing long-term care complaint workload.
74.39A.390 - Personal care services—Glove access.
74.39A.400 - Personal care services—Community first choice option.
74.39A.505 - Consumer directed employer program—Rule-making authority—2018 c 278.
74.39A.510 - Consumer directed employer program—Limitations.
74.39A.800 - Changes to agreements—Performance of duties.
74.39A.900 - Section captions—1993 c 508.