Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 74 Public Assistance - Chapter 74.39A Long-Term Care Services Options -- Expansion

74.39A.005 Findings
The legislature finds that the aging of the population and advanced medical technology have resulted in a growing number of persons who require assistance. The ...
74.39A.007 Purpose and intent
It is the legislature's intent that: (1) Long-term care services administered by the department of social and health services include a balanced array of health, ...
74.39A.009 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Adult family home" means a home licensed under chapter ...
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 boarding homes under chapter 18.20 RCW and ...
74.39A.020 Adult residential care -- Contracts -- Rules
(1) To the extent of available funding, the department of social and health services may contract for adult residential care. (2) The department shall, by ...
74.39A.030 Expansion of home and community services -- Payment rates
(1) To the extent of available funding, the department shall expand cost-effective options for home and community services for consumers for whom the state participates ...
74.39A.040 Department assessment of and assistance to hospital patients in need of long-term care
The department shall work in partnership with hospitals in assisting patients and their families to find long-term care services of their choice. The department shall ...
74.39A.050 Quality improvement principles
The department's system of quality improvement for long-term care services shall use the following principles, consistent with applicable federal laws and regulations: (1) The system ...
74.39A.055 Criminal history checks on long-term care workers
All long-term care workers for the elderly or persons with disabilities hired after January 1, 2010, shall be screened through state and federal background checks ...
74.39A.060 Toll-free telephone number for complaints -- Investigation and referral -- Rules -- Discrimination or retaliation prohibited
(1) The aging and adult services administration of the department shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number for receiving complaints regarding a facility that ...
74.39A.070 Rules for qualifications and training requirements -- Requirement that contractors comply with federal and state regulations
(1) The department shall, by rule, establish reasonable minimum qualifications and training requirements to assure that assisted living service, enhanced adult residential care service, and ...
74.39A.073 Training requirements for long-term care workers
(1) Effective January 1, 2010, except as provided in RCW 18.88B.040, all persons employed as long-term care workers for the elderly or persons with disabilities ...
74.39A.075 Training requirements for individual providers caring for family members
(1) Effective January 1, 2010, a biological, step, or adoptive parent who is the individual provider only for his or her developmentally disabled son or ...
74.39A.080 Department authority to take actions in response to noncompliance or violations
(1) The department is authorized to take one or more of the actions listed in subsection (2) of this section in any case in which ...
74.39A.085 Enforcement actions against persons not certified as home care aides and their employers
(1) The department shall deny payment to any individual provider of home care services who has not been certified by the department of health as ...
74.39A.090 Discharge planning -- Contracts for case management services and reassessment and reauthorization -- Assessment of case management roles and quality of in-home care services -- Plan of care model language
(1) The legislature intends that any staff reassigned by the department as a result of shifting of the reauthorization responsibilities by contract outlined in this ...
74.39A.095 Case management services -- Agency on aging oversight -- Plan of care -- Termination of contract -- Rejection of individual provider
(1) In carrying out case management responsibilities established under RCW 74.39A.090 for consumers who are receiving services under the medicaid personal care, community options programs ...
74.39A.100 Chore services -- Legislative finding, intent
The legislature finds that it is desirable to provide a coordinated and comprehensive program of in-home services for certain citizens in order that such persons ...
74.39A.110 Chore services -- Legislative policy and intent regarding available funds -- Levels of service
It is the intent of the legislature that chore services be provided to eligible persons within the limits of funds appropriated for that purpose. Therefore, ...
74.39A.120 Chore services -- Expenditure limitation -- Priorities -- Rule on patient resource limit
(1) The department shall establish a monthly dollar lid for each region on chore services expenditures within the legislative appropriation. Priority for services shall be ...
74.39A.130 Chore services -- Department to develop program
(1) The department is authorized to develop a program to provide for chore services under this chapter. (2) The department may provide assistance in the ...
74.39A.140 Chore services -- Employment of public assistance recipients
In developing the program set forth in *RCW 74.08.550, the department shall, to the extent possible, and consistent with federal law, enlist the services of ...
74.39A.150 Chore services for disabled persons -- Eligibility
(1) An otherwise eligible disabled person shall not be deemed ineligible for chore services under this chapter if the person's gross income from employment, adjusted ...
74.39A.155 Support for persons at risk of institutional placement
Within funds appropriated for this purpose, the department shall provide additional support for residents in community settings who exhibit challenging behaviors that put them at ...
74.39A.160 Transfer of assets -- Penalties
(1) A person who receives an asset from an applicant for or recipient of long-term care services for less than fair market value shall be ...
74.39A.170 Recovery of payments -- Transfer of assets rules for eligibility -- Disclosure of estate recovery costs, terms, and conditions
(1) All payments made in state-funded long-term care shall be recoverable as if they were medical assistance payments subject to recovery under 42 U.S.C. Sec. ...
74.39A.180 Authority to pay for probate actions and collection of bad debts
Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (1) In order to facilitate and ensure compliance with the federal social security act, Title XIX, as now existing ...
74.39A.200 Training curricula, materials -- In public domain -- Exceptions
All training curricula and material, except competency testing material, developed by or for the department and used in part or in whole for the purpose ...
74.39A.210 Disclosure of employee information -- Employer immunity -- Rebuttable presumption
An employer providing home and community services, including facilities licensed under chapters 18.51, 18.20, and 70.128 RCW, an employer of a program authorized under RCW ...
74.39A.220 Findings -- 2002 c 3 (Initiative Measure No. 775)
The people of the state of Washington find as follows: (1) Thousands of Washington seniors and persons with disabilities live independently in their own homes, ...
74.39A.230 Authority created
(1) The home care quality authority is established to regulate and improve the quality of long-term in-home care services by recruiting, training, and stabilizing the ...
74.39A.240 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 74.39A.030 and 74.39A.095 and 74.39A.220 through 74.39A.300, 41.56.026, 70.127.041, and74.09.740 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) ...
74.39A.250 Authority duties
(1) The authority must carry out the following duties: (a) Establish qualifications and reasonable standards for accountability for and investigate the background of individual providers ...
74.39A.260 Department duties
The department must perform criminal background checks for individual providers and prospective individual providers and ensure that the authority has ready access to any long-term ...
74.39A.270 Collective bargaining -- Circumstances in which individual providers are considered public employees -- Exceptions
(1) Solely for the purposes of collective bargaining and as expressly limited under subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the governor is the public ...
74.39A.280 Powers
In carrying out its duties under chapter 3, Laws of 2002, the authority may: (1) Make and execute contracts and all other instruments necessary or ...
74.39A.290 Performance review
(1) The joint legislative audit and review committee will conduct a performance review of the authority and submit the review to the legislature and the ...
74.39A.300 Funding
(1) Upon meeting the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, the governor must submit, as a part of the proposed biennial or supplemental operating ...
74.39A.310 Contract for individual home care services providers -- Cost of increase in wages and benefits funded--Formula
(1) The department shall create a formula that converts the cost of the increase in wages and benefits negotiated and funded in the contract for ...
74.39A.320 Establishment of capital add-on rate--Determination of medicaid occupancy percentage
(1) To the extent funds are appropriated for this purpose, the department shall establish a capital add-on rate, not less than the July 1, 2005, ...
74.39A.330 Peer mentoring
Long-term care workers shall be offered on-the-job training or peer mentorship for at least one hour per week in the first ninety days of work ...
74.39A.340 Continuing education requirements for long-term care workers
(1) The department of health shall ensure that all long-term care workers shall complete twelve hours of continuing education training in advanced training topics each ...
74.39A.350 Advanced training
The department shall offer, directly or through contract, training opportunities sufficient for a long-term care worker to accumulate seventy hours of training within a reasonable ...
74.39A.360 Training partnership
Beginning January 1, 2010, for individual providers represented by an exclusive bargaining representative under RCW 74.39A.270, all training and peer mentoring required under this chapter ...
74.39A.900 Section captions -- 1993 c 508
Section captions as used in this act constitute no part of the law.[1993 c 508 § 10.] ...
74.39A.901 Conflict with federal requirements
If any part of this chapter or a collective bargaining agreement under this chapter is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be in ...
74.39A.902 Severability -- 1993 c 508
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...
74.39A.903 Effective date -- 1993 c 508
This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009