The State Department of Education shall administer the Adult Day Care Food Program for all eligible, participating adult day care centers that provide adult day care services to the persons described in Section 32452. For the purposes of this chapter, “adult day care center” means any public agency or private nonprofit organization, or any proprietary Title XIX center or Title XX center that meets the following requirements:
(a) The center is licensed pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1570) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, or otherwise approved to operate by a state or federal agency.
(b) The center provides for care and services directly or under arrangements under which the public agency, nonprofit organization, or proprietary Title XIX or Title XX center maintains professional management responsibility for all of the services.
The terms “proprietary Title XIX” or “proprietary Title XX center” means any private, for-profit center that provides adult day care services for which it receives compensation from amounts granted to the states pursuant to Title XIX or XX of the federal Social Security Act as set forth in Section 1396 and following of Title 42 of the United States Code and for which not less than 25 percent of the enrolled eligible participants were served by the center in the calendar month preceding initial application or annual reapplication for program participation.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 530, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018