PERMANENT RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Disability Services Administration)
Effective Date of Rule: January 1, 2011.
Purpose: The department is amending existing sections and adding new sections to chapter 388-101 WAC, Certified community residential services and supports. The purpose of amending and adding to these rules is to implement chapters 74.39A and 18.88B RCW as codified from Initiative Measure No. 1029 and E2SHB 2284, chapter 361, Laws of 2007.
The department is proposing new sections WAC 388-101-3245 Background check -- General, 388-101-3253 National fingerprint background checks -- Required, 388-101-3255 Background checks -- Provisional hire -- Pending results, 388-101-3258 Training requirements for staff hired before January 1, 2011, and 388-101-3302 Certified community residential services and supports -- General training requirements.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-101-3000, 388-101-3050, 388-101-3220, and 388-101-3250.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 71A.12.080, chapter 74.39A RCW.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 10-10-079 on May 3, 2010.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: The changes, other than editing changes, follow: Changes are shown below with new language underlined and deleted text lined through.
WAC 388-101-3000 Definitions. "Abandonment" means action or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care for a vulnerable adult that leaves the vulnerable person without the means or ability to obtain necessary food, clothing, shelter, or health care.
"Abuse" means:
(1) The willful action or inaction that inflicts injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment of a vulnerable adult;
(2) In instances of abuse of a vulnerable adult who is unable to express or demonstrate physical harm, pain, or mental anguish, the abuse is presumed to cause physical harm, pain, or mental anguish; and
(3) Abuse includes sexual abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse, and exploitation of a vulnerable adult, which have the following meanings:
(a) "Sexual abuse" means any form of nonconsensual sexual contact, including but not limited to unwanted or inappropriate touching, rape, sodomy, sexual coercion, sexually explicit photographing, and sexual harassment. Sexual abuse includes any sexual contact between a staff person, who is not also a resident or client, of a facility or a staff person of a program authorized under chapter 71A.12 RCW, and a vulnerable adult living in that facility or receiving service from a program authorized under chapter 71A.12 RCW, whether or not it is consensual.
(b) "Physical abuse" means the willful action of inflicting bodily injury or physical mistreatment. Physical abuse includes, but is not limited to, striking with or without an object, slapping, pinching, choking, kicking, shoving, prodding, or the use of chemical restraints or physical restraints unless the restraints are consistent with licensing and certification requirements, and includes restraints that are otherwise being used inappropriately.
(c) "Mental abuse" means any willful action or inaction of mental or verbal abuse. Mental abuse includes, but is not limited to, coercion, harassment, inappropriately isolating a vulnerable adult from family, friends, regular activity, and verbal assault that includes ridiculing, intimidating, yelling, or swearing.
(d) "Exploitation" means an act of forcing, compelling, or exerting undue influence over a vulnerable adult causing the vulnerable adult to act in a way that is inconsistent with relevant past behavior, or causing the vulnerable adult to perform services for the benefit of another.
"Associated with the applicant" means any person listed on the application as a partner, officer, director, or majority owner of the applying entity, or who is the spouse or domestic partner of the applicant.
"Case manager" means the division of developmental disabilities case resource manager or social worker assigned to a client.
"Certification" means a process used by the department to determine if an applicant or service provider complies with the requirements of this chapter and is eligible to provide certified community residential services and support to clients.
"Chaperone agreement" means a plan or agreement that describes who will supervise a community protection program client when service provider staff is not present. This plan or agreement is negotiated with other agencies and individuals who support the client, including the client's legal representative and family.
"Chemical restraint" means the use of psychoactive medications for discipline or convenience and not prescribed to treat the client's medical symptoms.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020(3) and who also has been determined eligible to receive services by the division of developmental disabilities under chapter 71A.16 RCW. For purposes of informed consent and decision making requirements, the term "client" includes the client's legal representative to the extent of the representative's legal authority.
"Client services" means instruction and support services that service providers are responsible to provide as identified in the client's individual support plan.
"Crisis diversion" means temporary crisis residential services and supports provided to clients at risk of psychiatric hospitalization and authorized by the division of developmental disabilities.
"Crisis diversion bed services" means crisis diversion that is provided in a residence maintained by the service provider.
"Crisis diversion support services" means crisis diversion that is provided in the client's own home.
"Department" means the Washington state department of social and health services.
"Financial exploitation" means the illegal or improper use of the property, income, resources, or trust funds of the vulnerable adult by any person for any person's profit or advantage other than the vulnerable adult's profit or advantage.
"Functional assessment" means a comprehensive evaluation of a client's challenging behavior(s). This evaluation is the basis for developing a positive behavior support plan.
"Group home" means a residence that is licensed as either a boarding home or an adult family home by the department under chapters 388-78A or 388-76 WAC. Group homes provide community residential instruction, supports, and services to two or more clients who are unrelated to the provider.
"Group training home" means a certified nonprofit residential facility that provides full-time care, treatment, training, and maintenance for clients, as defined under RCW 71A.22.020(2).
"Immediate" or "immediately" means within twenty-four hours for purposes of reporting abandonment, abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
"Individual financial plan" means a plan describing how a client's funds will be managed when the service provider is responsible for managing any or all of the client's funds.
"Individual instruction and support plan" means a plan developed by the service provider and the client. The individual instruction and support plan:
(1) Uses the information and assessed needs documented in the individual support plan to identify areas the client would like to develop;
(2) Includes client goals for instruction and support that will be formally documented during the year; and
(3) Must contain or refer to other applicable support or service information that describes how the client's health and welfare needs are to be met (e.g. individual financial plan, positive behavior support plan, cross system crisis plan, individual support plan, individual written plan, client-specific instructions).
"Individual support plan" means a document that authorizes and identifies the division of developmental disabilities paid services to meet a client's assessed needs.
"Instruction" means goal oriented teaching that is designed for acquiring and enhancing skills.
"Instruction and support services staff" means long-term
care workers of the service provider whose primary job
function is the provision of instruction and support services
to clients. Instruction and support services staff shall also
include employees of the contractor service provider whose
primary job function is the supervision of instruction and
support services staff. In addition, both applicants, prior
to initial certification, and administrators, prior to
assuming duties, who may provide instruction and support
services to clients shall be considered instruction and
support services staff for the purposes of the applicable
training requirements of chapter 388-112 WAC.
"Legal representative" means a person's legal guardian, a person's limited guardian when the subject matter is within the scope of the limited guardianship, a person's attorney at law, a person's attorney in fact, or any other person who is authorized by law to act for another person.
"Managing client funds" means that the service provider:
(1) Has signing authority for the client;
(2) Disperses the client's funds; or
(3) Limits the client's access to funds by not allowing funds to be spent.
"Mechanical restraint" means a device or object, which the client cannot remove, applied to the client's body that restricts his/her free movement.
"Medication administration" means the direct application of a prescribed medication whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means, to the body of the client by an individual legally authorized to do so.
"Medication assistance" means assistance with self administration of medication rendered by a nonpractitioner to a client receiving certified community residential services and supports in accordance with chapter 69.41 RCW and chapter 246-888 WAC.
"Medication service" means any service provided by a certified community residential services and support provider related to medication administration or medication assistance provided through nurse delegation and medication assistance.
"Neglect" means:
(1) A pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health of a vulnerable adult, or that fails to avoid or prevent physical or mental harm or pain to a vulnerable adult; or
(2) An act or omission that demonstrates a serious disregard of consequences of such a magnitude as to constitute a clear and present danger to the vulnerable adult's health, welfare, or safety, including but not limited to conduct prohibited under RCW 9A.42.100.
"Physical intervention" means the use of a manual technique intended to interrupt or stop a behavior from occurring. This includes using physical restraint to release or escape from a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation.
"Physical restraint" means physically holding or restraining all or part of a client's body in a way that restricts the client's free movement. This does not include briefly holding, without undue force, a client in order to calm him/her, or holding a client's hand to escort the client safely from one area to another.
"Psychoactive" means possessing the ability to alter mood, anxiety level, behavior, cognitive processes, or mental tension, usually applied to pharmacological agents.
"Psychoactive medications" means medications prescribed to improve or stabilize mood, mental status or behavior. Psychoactive medications include anti psychotics/neuroleptics, atypical antipsychotics, antidepressants, stimulants, sedatives/hypnotics, and antimania and antianxiety drugs.
"Qualified professional" means a person with at least three years' experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities and as required by RCW 71A.12.220(12).
"Restrictive procedure" means any procedure that restricts a client's freedom of movement, restricts access to client property, requires a client to do something which he/she does not want to do, or removes something the client owns or has earned.
"Risk assessment" means an assessment done by a qualified professional and as required by RCW 71A.12.230.
"Service provider" means a person or entity certified by the department who delivers services and supports to meet a client's identified needs. The term includes the state operated living alternative (SOLA) program.
"Support" means assistance a service provider gives a client based on needs identified in the individual support plan.
"Supported living" means instruction, supports, and services provided by service providers to clients living in homes that are owned, rented, or leased by the client or their legal representative.
"Treatment team" means the program participant and the group of people responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of the person's individualized supports and services. This group may include, but is not limited to, the case manager, therapist, the service provider, employment/day program provider, and the person's legal representative and/or family, provided the person consents to the family member's involvement.
"Vulnerable adult" includes a person:
(1) Sixty years of age or older who has the functional, mental, or physical inability to care for himself or herself; or
(2) Found incapacitated under chapter 11.88 RCW; or
(3) Who has a developmental disability as defined under RCW 71A.10.020; or
(4) Admitted to any facility; or
(5) Receiving services from home health, hospice, or home care agencies licensed or required to be licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW; or
(6) Receiving services from an individual provider.
"Willful" means the deliberate, or nonaccidental, action
or inaction by an alleged perpetrator individual that he/she
knew or reasonably should have known could cause a negative
outcome, including harm, injury, pain, or anguish.
WAC 388-101-3050 Application for initial certification. (1) To apply for initial certification an applicant must submit to the department:
(a) A letter of intent that includes:
(i) Contact information;
(ii) Geographical area of service; and
(iii) Type of service provided, including group home, supported living, community protection, or group training home.
(b) A completed and signed application on forms designated by the department;
(c) All attachments specified in the application and any other information the department may request including but not limited to:
(i) Administrator resumes;
(ii) Statements of financial stability;
(iii) Professional references;
(iv) Relevant experiences and qualifications of the individual or agency;
(v) On or after January 1, 2011, a certificate of
completion of the instruction and support services staff
training required under chapter 388-112 WAC, if the applicant
may provide instruction and support services to a client or
may supervise staff who provide such instruction and support
services to clients, a certificate of completion of the
instruction and support services staff training required in
chapter 388-112 WAC; and
(vi) Assurances the applicant will not discriminate against any client or employee.
(d) A copy of the license if applying for certification as a group home;
(e) The name of the administrator of the program; and
(f) The department background authorization form for:
(i) The applicant;
(ii) Anyone associated with the applicant; and
(iii) The individual or individuals designated to serve as administrator of the proposed program.
(2) The applicant must submit a revised application, if any information on the application changes before the initial certification is issued.
(3) The department will only process a completed application.
(4) Each person named in the application for initial certification is considered separately and jointly by the department.
(5) Based on the documentation received, the department will notify the applicant in writing regarding the department's certification decision.
(6) The applicant must comply with additional requirements identified in this chapter if intending to support community protection clients.
WAC 388-101-3250 Background checks--Washington state. (1) Service providers must follow the background check requirements described in chapter 388-06 WAC and in this chapter. In the event of an inconsistency, this chapter applies. The service provider must also follow background check requirements under WAC 388-101-3253.
(2) The service provider must obtain background checks from the department for all administrators, employees, volunteers, students, and subcontractors who may have unsupervised access to clients.
(3) The service provider must not allow the following persons to have unsupervised access to clients until the service provider receives the department's background check results verifying that the person does not have any convictions, pending criminal charges, or findings described in WAC 388-101-3090:
(a) Administrators;
(b) Employees;
(c) Volunteers or students; and
(d) Subcontractors.
(4) If the background check results show that the individual has a conviction, pending criminal charge, or finding that is not disqualifying under WAC 388-101-3090, then the service provider must conduct a character, suitability, and competence review as described in WAC 388-06-0190.
(5) The service provider must:
(a) Inform the person of the results of the background check;
(b) Inform the person that they may request a copy in writing of the results of the background check. If requested, a copy of the background check results must be provided within ten working days of the request;
(c) Notify the department and other appropriate licensing or certification agency of any person resigning or terminated as a result of having a conviction record.
(6) The service provider must renew the Washington state background check at least every thirty-six months and keep current background check results for each administrator, employee, volunteer, student, or subcontractor of a service provider.
(7) Licensed boarding homes or adult family homes must adhere to the current regulations in this chapter and in the applicable licensing laws.
(8) Service providers must prevent unsupervised access to clients by any administrator, employee, subcontractor, student, or volunteer who has a disqualifying conviction, pending criminal charge, or finding described in WAC 388-101-3090.
WAC 388-101-3258 Training requirements for staff hired
before January 1, 2011. The service provider must ensure that
staff hired before January 1, 2011 have meet the training
requirements under defined in WAC 388-101-3260 through
388-101-3300.
WAC 388-101-3302 Certified community residential
services and supports--General training requirements. (1) On
or after January 1, 20112, the service provider must ensure
the following must meet the instruction and support services
staff meet the training requirements of under chapter 388-112 WAC, including orientation and safety training, and basic
training:
(a) Applicants for initial certification and applicants
for change of ownership that are not current providers, who
may provide instruction and support services to clients or who
may supervise instruction and support services staff;
(ab) Administrators, hired on or after the effective
date, who may provide instruction and support services to
clients or who may supervise instruction and support services
staff; and
(bc) Instruction and support services staff, including
their supervisors, who are hired on or after the effective
date.
(2) On or after January 1, 2011, applicants for initial certification and applicants for change of ownership that are not current providers, who may provide instruction and support services to clients or may supervise instruction and support services staff must meet the training requirements of chapter 388-112 WAC, including orientation and safety training, and basic training.
(32) Under RCW 18.88B.040 and chapter 246-980 WAC,
certain persons including registered nurses, licensed
practical nurses, certified nursing assistants or persons who
are in an approved certified nursing assistant program are
exempt from long-term care worker training requirements.
Persons exempt from subsection (1) of this section include but
are not limited to applicants, administrators, and staff who
are registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified
nursing assistants or persons who are in an approved certified
nursing assistant program.
The changes were made because of comments received and to make the requirements clearer.
| SUMMARY OF COMMENTS RECEIVED | THE DEPARTMENT CONSIDERED ALL THE COMMENTS. THE ACTIONS TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS, OR THE REASONS NO ACTIONS WERE TAKEN, FOLLOW |
| WAC 388-101-3000 Definitions. (1) Under the definition of "willful," delete the term "alleged perpetrator" and replace with the term "individual." |
A change was made in response to this comment. To be consistent with wording used throughout the chapter, the definition of "willful" was changed as recommended. |
| WAC 388-101-3250 Background
checks--Washington state. (1) Is subsection (5)(c) necessary? Who is the licensing or certification agency? |
A change was made in response to this comment. Language was amended to clarify who service providers must notify. |
| WAC 388-101-3302 Certified community residential
services and supports--General training
requirements. (1) Clarify that the service provider is responsible to ensure that instruction and support service staff meet training requirements. (2) Clarify who is exempt from the long-term care worker training requirements. |
A change was made in response to this comment. Language was amended to clarify that the service provider must ensure that instruction and support services staff meet the training requirements of chapter 388-112 WAC. A change was made to add the statutory and rule references. |
A final cost-benefit analysis is available by contacting John Gaskell, P.O. Box 45600, Olympia, WA 98504-5600, phone (360) 725-3210, fax (360) 438-7903, e-mail gaskejw@dshs.wa.gov.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 5, Amended 4, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 5, Amended 4, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: July 29, 2010.
Susan N. Dreyfus
Secretary
4193.8"Abuse" means:
(1) The willful action or inaction that inflicts injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment of a vulnerable adult;
(2) In instances of abuse of a vulnerable adult who is unable to express or demonstrate physical harm, pain, or mental anguish, the abuse is presumed to cause physical harm, pain, or mental anguish; and
(3) Abuse includes sexual abuse, mental abuse, physical abuse, and exploitation of a vulnerable adult, which have the following meanings:
(a) "Sexual abuse" means any form of nonconsensual sexual contact, including but not limited to unwanted or inappropriate touching, rape, sodomy, sexual coercion, sexually explicit photographing, and sexual harassment. Sexual abuse includes any sexual contact between a staff person, who is not also a resident or client, of a facility or a staff person of a program authorized under chapter 71A.12 RCW, and a vulnerable adult living in that facility or receiving service from a program authorized under chapter 71A.12 RCW, whether or not it is consensual.
(b) "Physical abuse" means the willful action of inflicting bodily injury or physical mistreatment. Physical abuse includes, but is not limited to, striking with or without an object, slapping, pinching, choking, kicking, shoving, prodding, or the use of chemical restraints or physical restraints unless the restraints are consistent with licensing and certification requirements, and includes restraints that are otherwise being used inappropriately.
(c) "Mental abuse" means any willful action or inaction of mental or verbal abuse. Mental abuse includes, but is not limited to, coercion, harassment, inappropriately isolating a vulnerable adult from family, friends, regular activity, and verbal assault that includes ridiculing, intimidating, yelling, or swearing.
(d) "Exploitation" means an act of forcing, compelling, or exerting undue influence over a vulnerable adult causing the vulnerable adult to act in a way that is inconsistent with relevant past behavior, or causing the vulnerable adult to perform services for the benefit of another.
"Associated with the applicant" means any person listed on the application as a partner, officer, director, or majority owner of the applying entity, or who is the spouse or domestic partner of the applicant.
"Case manager" means the division of developmental disabilities case resource manager or social worker assigned to a client.
"Certification" means a process used by the department to determine if an applicant or service provider complies with the requirements of this chapter and is eligible to provide certified community residential services and support to clients.
"Chaperone agreement" means a plan or agreement that describes who will supervise a community protection program client when service provider staff is not present. This plan or agreement is negotiated with other agencies and individuals who support the client, including the client's legal representative and family.
"Chemical restraint" means the use of psychoactive medications for discipline or convenience and not prescribed to treat the client's medical symptoms.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020(3) and who also has been determined eligible to receive services by the division of developmental disabilities under chapter 71A.16 RCW. For purposes of informed consent and decision making requirements, the term "client" includes the client's legal representative to the extent of the representative's legal authority.
"Client services" means instruction and support services that service providers are responsible to provide as identified in the client's individual support plan.
"Crisis diversion" means temporary crisis residential services and supports provided to clients at risk of psychiatric hospitalization and authorized by the division of developmental disabilities.
"Crisis diversion bed services" means crisis diversion that is provided in a residence maintained by the service provider.
"Crisis diversion support services" means crisis diversion that is provided in the client's own home.
"Department" means the Washington state department of social and health services.
"Financial exploitation" means the illegal or improper use of the property, income, resources, or trust funds of the vulnerable adult by any person for any person's profit or advantage other than the vulnerable adult's profit or advantage.
"Functional assessment" means a comprehensive evaluation of a client's challenging behavior(s). This evaluation is the basis for developing a positive behavior support plan.
"Group home" means a residence that is licensed as either a boarding home or an adult family home by the department under chapters 388-78A or 388-76 WAC. Group homes provide community residential instruction, supports, and services to two or more clients who are unrelated to the provider.
"Group training home" means a certified nonprofit residential facility that provides full-time care, treatment, training, and maintenance for clients, as defined under RCW 71A.22.020(2).
"Immediate" or "immediately" means within twenty-four hours for purposes of reporting abandonment, abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.
"Individual financial plan" means a plan describing how a client's funds will be managed when the service provider is responsible for managing any or all of the client's funds.
"Individual instruction and support plan" means a plan developed by the service provider and the client. The individual instruction and support plan:
(1) Uses the information and assessed needs documented in the individual support plan to identify areas the client would like to develop;
(2) Includes client goals for instruction and support that will be formally documented during the year; and
(3) Must contain or refer to other applicable support or service information that describes how the client's health and welfare needs are to be met (e.g. individual financial plan, positive behavior support plan, cross system crisis plan, individual support plan, individual written plan, client-specific instructions).
"Individual support plan" means a document that authorizes and identifies the division of developmental disabilities paid services to meet a client's assessed needs.
"Instruction" means goal oriented teaching that is designed for acquiring and enhancing skills.
"Instruction and support services staff" means long-term care workers of the service provider whose primary job function is the provision of instruction and support services to clients. Instruction and support services staff shall also include employees of the service provider whose primary job function is the supervision of instruction and support services staff. In addition, both applicants, prior to initial certification, and administrators, prior to assuming duties, who may provide instruction and support services to clients shall be considered instruction and support services staff for the purposes of the applicable training requirements of chapter 388-112 WAC.
"Legal representative" means a person's legal guardian, a person's limited guardian when the subject matter is within the scope of the limited guardianship, a person's attorney at law, a person's attorney in fact, or any other person who is authorized by law to act for another person.
"Managing client funds" means that the service provider:
(1) Has signing authority for the client;
(2) Disperses the client's funds; or
(3) Limits the client's access to funds by not allowing funds to be spent.
"Mechanical restraint" means a device or object, which the client cannot remove, applied to the client's body that restricts his/her free movement.
"Medication administration" means the direct application of a prescribed medication whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means, to the body of the client by an individual legally authorized to do so.
"Medication assistance" means assistance with self administration of medication rendered by a nonpractitioner to a client receiving certified community residential services and supports in accordance with chapter 69.41 RCW and chapter 246-888 WAC.
"Medication service" means any service provided by a certified community residential services and support provider related to medication administration or medication assistance provided through nurse delegation and medication assistance.
"Neglect" means:
(1) A pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health of a vulnerable adult, or that fails to avoid or prevent physical or mental harm or pain to a vulnerable adult; or
(2) An act or omission that demonstrates a serious disregard of consequences of such a magnitude as to constitute a clear and present danger to the vulnerable adult's health, welfare, or safety, including but not limited to conduct prohibited under RCW 9A.42.100.
"Physical intervention" means the use of a manual technique intended to interrupt or stop a behavior from occurring. This includes using physical restraint to release or escape from a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation.
"Physical restraint" means physically holding or restraining all or part of a client's body in a way that restricts the client's free movement. This does not include briefly holding, without undue force, a client in order to calm him/her, or holding a client's hand to escort the client safely from one area to another.
"Psychoactive" means possessing the ability to alter mood, anxiety level, behavior, cognitive processes, or mental tension, usually applied to pharmacological agents.
"Psychoactive medications" means medications prescribed to improve or stabilize mood, mental status or behavior. Psychoactive medications include anti-psychotics/neuroleptics, atypical antipsychotics, antidepressants, stimulants, sedatives/hypnotics, and antimania and antianxiety drugs.
"Qualified professional" means a person with at least three years' experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities and as required by RCW 71A.12.220(12).
"Restrictive procedure" means any procedure that restricts a client's freedom of movement, restricts access to client property, requires a client to do something which he/she does not want to do, or removes something the client owns or has earned.
"Risk assessment" means an assessment done by a qualified professional and as required by RCW 71A.12.230.
"Service provider" means a person or entity certified by the department who delivers services and supports to meet a client's identified needs. The term includes the state operated living alternative (SOLA) program.
"Support" means assistance a service provider gives a client based on needs identified in the individual support plan.
"Supported living" means instruction, supports, and services provided by service providers to clients living in homes that are owned, rented, or leased by the client or their legal representative.
"Treatment team" means the program participant and the group of people responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of the person's individualized supports and services. This group may include, but is not limited to, the case manager, therapist, the service provider, employment/day program provider, and the person's legal representative and/or family, provided the person consents to the family member's involvement.
"Vulnerable adult" includes a person:
(1) Sixty years of age or older who has the functional, mental, or physical inability to care for himself or herself; or
(2) Found incapacitated under chapter 11.88 RCW; or
(3) Who has a developmental disability as defined under RCW 71A.10.020; or
(4) Admitted to any facility; or
(5) Receiving services from home health, hospice, or home care agencies licensed or required to be licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW; or
(6) Receiving services from an individual provider.
"Willful" means the deliberate, or nonaccidental, action
or inaction by an ((alleged perpetrator)) individual that
he/she knew or reasonably should have known could cause a
negative outcome, including harm, injury, pain, ((and)) or
anguish.
(("Written individual plan" means a plan developed for
clients in the community protection program that includes:
(1) An assessment of the client's emotional and behavioral issues as related to community protection risks;
(2) Specific intervention strategies and techniques related to community protection risks;
(3) Specific restrictions and measures, including security precautions, both in-home and out-of-home; and
(4) Signatures of the client's case manager and the client.))
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 71A.12 RCW. 08-02-022, § 388-101-3000, filed 12/21/07, effective 2/1/08.]
(a) A letter of intent that includes:
(i) Contact information;
(ii) Geographical area of service; and
(iii) Type of service provided, including group home, supported living, community protection, or group training home.
(b) A completed and signed application on forms designated by the department;
(c) All attachments specified in the application and any other information the department may request including but not limited to:
(i) Administrator resumes;
(ii) Statements of financial stability;
(iii) Professional references;
(iv) Relevant experiences and qualifications of the
individual or agency; ((and))
(v) On or after January 1, 2011, a certificate of completion of the instruction and support services staff training required under chapter 388-112 WAC, if the applicant may provide instruction and support services to a client or may supervise staff who provide such services; and
(vi) Assurances the applicant will not discriminate against any client or employee.
(d) A copy of the license if applying for certification as a group home;
(e) The name of the administrator of the program; and
(f) ((Department criminal history background check on
forms designated by the department for the)) The department
background authorization form for:
(i) The applicant;
(ii) Anyone associated with the applicant; and
(iii) The individual or individuals designated to serve as administrator of the proposed program.
(2) The applicant must submit a revised application, if any information on the application changes before the initial certification is issued.
(3) The department will only process a completed application.
(4) Each person named in the application for initial certification is considered separately and jointly by the department.
(5) Based on the documentation received, the department will notify the applicant in writing regarding the department's certification decision.
(6) The applicant must comply with additional requirements identified in this chapter if intending to support community protection clients.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 71A.12 RCW. 08-02-022, § 388-101-3050, filed 12/21/07, effective 2/1/08.]
(((1))) (a) Overseeing all aspects of staffing, such as
recruitment, staff training, and performance reviews;
(((2))) (b) Developing and maintaining policies and
procedures that give staff direction to provide appropriate
services and support as required by this chapter and the
department contract; and
(((3))) (c) Maintaining and securely storing client,
personnel, and financial records.
(2) Before assuming duties, an administrator hired on or after January 1, 2011, must complete the instruction and support services staff training requirements under chapter 388-112 WAC if the administrator may provide instruction and support services to clients or may supervise instruction and support services staff.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 71A.12 RCW. 08-02-022, § 388-101-3220, filed 12/21/07, effective 2/1/08.]
(a) Washington state background checks including:
(i) Department and department of health findings; and
(ii) Criminal background check information from the Washington state patrol and Washington state courts; and
(b) After January 1, 2012, a national fingerprint-based check in accordance with RCW 74.39A.055.
(2) Nothing in this chapter should be interpreted as requiring the employment of a person against the better judgment of the service provider.
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(2) The service provider must obtain background checks
((including, but not limited to background inquiries and
criminal history disclosure)) from the department for all
administrators, employees, volunteers, students, and
subcontractors who may have unsupervised access to clients.
(3) The service provider must not allow the following
persons to have unsupervised access to clients until the
service provider receives the department's background check
results ((from the department)), verifying that the person
does not have any convictions, pending criminal charges, or
findings described in WAC 388-101-3090:
(a) Administrators;
(b) Employees;
(c) Volunteers or students; and
(d) Subcontractors.
(4) If the background check results show that the individual has a conviction, pending criminal charge, or finding that is not disqualifying under WAC 388-101-3090, then the service provider must conduct a character, suitability, and competence review as described in WAC 388-06-0190.
(5) ((Persons identified in subsection (2) of this
section who have lived in Washington state less than three
years or who are otherwise required to complete a
fingerprint-based background check may be hired for a one
hundred twenty-day provisional period when:
(a) The person is not disqualified based on the initial result of the background check from the department; and
(b) A fingerprint-based background check is pending.
(6))) The service provider must ((notify)):
(a) Inform the person((, within ten days)) of
((receiving)) the ((result, that he or she may request a
copy)) results of the background check;
(b) Inform the person that they may request a copy in writing of the results of the background check. If requested, a copy of the background check results must be provided within ten working days of the request;
(c) Notify the department and other appropriate licensing or certification agency of any person resigning or terminated as a result of having a conviction record.
(((7))) (6) The service provider must renew the
Washington state background check at least every thirty-six
months and keep current ((department)) background ((checks))
check results for each administrator, employee, volunteer,
student, or subcontractor of a service provider.
(((8))) (7) Licensed boarding homes or adult family homes
must adhere to the current regulations in this chapter and in
the applicable licensing laws.
(((9))) (8) Service providers must prevent unsupervised
access to clients by any administrator, employee,
subcontractor, student, or volunteer who has a disqualifying
conviction, pending criminal charge, or finding described in
WAC 388-101-3090.
(((10) Nothing in this section should be interpreted as
requiring the employment of any person against the better
judgment of the service provider.))
[Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.12.080. 10-03-065, § 388-101-3250, filed 1/15/10, effective 2/15/10. Statutory Authority: Chapter 71A.12 RCW. 08-02-022, § 388-101-3250, filed 12/21/07, effective 2/1/08.]
(1) After January 1, 2012, applicants for initial certification and applicants for change of ownership that are not current providers, must have a background check that includes a national fingerprint-based background check.
(2) The service provider must ensure that staff who provide instruction and support services to clients, and are hired on or after January 1, 2012, submit a background check that includes a national fingerprint based background check.
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(a) The person is not disqualified based on the initial results of the background check from the department; and
(b) A national fingerprint-based background is pending.
(2) Persons identified in WAC 388-101-3250(2) who are hired after January 1, 2012, may be hired for a one hundred twenty-day provisional period when:
(a) The person is not disqualified based on the initial result of the background check from the department; and
(b) A national fingerprint-based background check is pending.
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(a) Administrators, hired on or after the effective date, who may provide instruction and support services to clients or may supervise instruction and support services staff; and
(b) Instruction and support services staff including their supervisors, who are hired on or after the effective date.
(2) On or after January 1, 2011, applicants for initial certification and applicants for change of ownership that are not current providers, who may provide instruction and support services to clients or may supervise instruction and support services staff must meet the training requirements of chapter 388-112 WAC, including orientation and safety training, and basic training.
(3) Under RCW 18.88B.040 and chapter 246-980 WAC, certain persons including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants or persons who are in an approved certified nursing assistant program are exempt from long-term care worker training requirements.
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