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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-10-2106

Rules

Acts 2007, No. 516, § 1; 2009, No. 952, § 2; 2019, No. 910, § 5189.

The Secretary of the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules necessary to implement and administer this subchapter, including without limitation:

(1) Procedures for a long-term care facility to notify the Office of Long-Term Care of admissions; and

(2) Procedures by which a person in a long-term care facility may decline options counseling for long-term care.

(3) These procedures shall include a form promulgated by the Department of Human Services for use by a long-term care facility.

(4) The form shall be limited to one (1) page and shall: Be orally read to the resident or, if applicable, the resident's representative by long-term care facility staff except as provided in this subdivision (2)(B)(ii);

(5) List the date;

(6) State the name of the resident or, if applicable, the resident's representative;

(7) Contain checkboxes indicating that: The office was notified of the admission;

(8) The form was not read orally to the resident or resident's representative because the resident lacks decisional capacity and does not have a representative; and

(9) The resident or the resident's representative declined the options counseling for long-term care;

(10) Contain a statement and an acknowledgment that options counseling for long-term care is an optional program and may be declined by execution of the form;

(11) Be signed by the resident or, if applicable, the resident's representative; and

(12) Be retained by the long-term care facility in the resident's admission file for eighteen (18) months or until the next standard survey, whichever is longer.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.