7 AAC 75.220 - General requirements
(a) An assisted living home shall provide
safeguards to ensure that persons entering or living in the home, including
employees, volunteers, contractors, and visitors do not abuse, neglect, or
exploit a resident of the home. An assisted living home shall
(1) develop and implement written policies
and procedures that prohibit the abuse, neglect, exploitation, and mistreatment
of residents;
(2) report alleged or
suspected abuse to a local, municipal, or state law enforcement
agency;
(3) take any necessary
action to remove the potential for further abuse, neglect, exploitation, or
mistreatment of a resident or further misappropriation of a resident's
property;
(4) document alleged or
suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment by an
employee, a volunteer, a contractor, a visitor, or another resident;
(5) investigate alleged or suspected
incidents of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment by an employee, a
volunteer, a contractor, a visitor, or another resident;
(6) document the result of the investigation
and the corrective action taken; and
(7) submit the documentation prepared under
this subsection to the department as required in
AS
47.32.200(c).
(b) A person seeking to be
associated with an assisted living home in a manner described in
7 AAC 10.900(b) shall provide
(1) the names, addresses, and telephone
numbers of at least three character references who are unrelated to the person
seeking association with the assisted living home;
(2) at least two employment references; an
employment reference may also serve as a character reference required under (1)
of this subsection; and
(3) the
signed release of information authorization and other items required to request
a criminal history check under
7 AAC 10.910.
(c) A person who will be in direct contact
with residents in an assisted living home shall provide evidence to the
administrator that the person is free from active pulmonary tuberculosis before
contact with a resident. This evidence must be provided annually and must be
placed in the person's file for review by the department.
(d) Before hiring, the administrator shall
ensure that each person who will be in direct, unsupervised contact with
residents in an assisted living home has sufficient language skills to meet the
needs of the residents of the home and the ability to access emergency
services, including giving clear directions to emergency personnel of the
home's location and describing the nature of the emergency in the primary
language of the community. The administrator shall assess language skill level
for employees, contractors, and volunteers. The department will assess the
language skill level of the administrator.
(e) Each administrator, each administrator
designee who will serve in that capacity for 90 consecutive days or longer, and
each care provider who is an employee of an assisted living home shall
participate in continuing education that is relevant to that person's primary
job responsibilities and the ongoing care of residents. If courses for
continuing education are not available within 100 miles of where the home is
located or through correspondence or distance learning, the administrator shall
ensure that the continuing education is obtained not less than every 18 months.
Training requirements are as follows:
(1)
each administrator shall complete 18 clock hours of continuing education
annually;
(2) each care provider
shall complete 12 clock hours of continuing education annually;
(3) a home may count in-service training as
continuing education if that training increases the knowledge, abilities, or
skills of care providers and is approved by the department;
(4) continuing education, whether in-service
training or received from a state agency, a seminar, or a university, must be
documented and placed in the employee's personnel file for review and approval
by the department.
An assisted living home is subject to the reporting requirements of AS 47.24.010.
(f) An assisted living home is subject to the
reporting requirements of
AS
47.24.010.
Notes
Authority:AS 47.05.300
AS 47.05.310
AS 47.05.320
AS 47.05.330
AS 47.05.340
AS 47.32.010
AS 47.32.030
AS 47.33.005
AS 47.33.010
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