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Inspections of state-licensed care facilities; public notice, see §321-1.8.
[§321-481] Definitions. As used in this part:
"Certificate of approval" means the certificate issued by the department or its designee that authorizes a person, agency, or organization to operate a community care foster family home.
"Client" means any person who receives home and community-based case management services to reside in a community care foster family home, expanded adult residential care home, or assisted living facility.
"Community care foster family home" or "home" means a home that:
(1) Is regulated by the department in accordance with rules that are equitable in relation to rules that govern expanded adult residential care homes;
(2) Is issued a certificate of approval by the department or its designee to provide, for a fee, twenty-four-hour living accommodations, including personal care and homemaker services, for not more than two adults at any one time, at least one of whom shall be a medicaid recipient, who are at the nursing facility level of care, who are unrelated to the foster family, and who are receiving the services of a licensed home and community-based case management agency; provided that the department, in its discretion, may certify a home for a third adult who is at the nursing level of care and a medicaid recipient; provided further that the:
(A) Home has been certified and in operation for not less than one year;
(B) Primary caregiver is a certified nurse aide, as defined in section 457A-1.5, who has completed a state-approved training program and other training as required by the department; and
(C) Substitute caregiver is a nurse aide, as defined in section 457A-1.5, who has completed a state-approved training program and other training as required by the department; and
(3) Does not include expanded adult residential care homes or assisted living facilities.
"Department" means the department of health.
"Designee" means a person, institution, organization, or agency authorized by the department to issue certificates of approval to community care foster family homes and to monitor these homes for certificate compliance and quality assurance. The department's designee shall perform these functions for the department and shall not, at the same time, function as a home and community-based case management agency or a community care foster family home as defined in this section.
"Home and community-based case management agency" means any person, agency, or organization licensed by the department to provide, coordinate, and monitor comprehensive services to meet the needs of clients whom the agency serves in a community care foster family home or any medicaid clients in an expanded adult residential care home, or an assisted living facility.
"License" means an approval issued by the department or its authorized agents for a person, agency, or organization to operate as a home and community-based case management agency. [L 2012, c 93, pt of §2]
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