The department will only consider an application for more than one home if the applicant has:

(1) Evidence of successful completion of the forty-eight hour residential care administrator's training to meet the applicable requirements of chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC;

(2) The ability to operate more than one home;

(3) The following plans for each home the applicant intends to operate. Each of the following plans must be updated and maintained:

(a) A twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week staffing plan;

(b) A plan for managing the daily operations of each home; and

(c) A plan for emergencies, deliveries, staff and visitor parking.

(4) A demonstrated history of financial solvency related to the ability to provide care and services; and

(5) An entity representative or a resident manager at each home who is responsible for the care of each resident at all times.

An applicant must ensure that each person listed on the application has successfully completed the training if required under this chapter and chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(1) The applicant and the entity representative must successfully complete the department approved adult family home administration class as required in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(2) An applicant and entity representative may not be required to take the adult family home administrator class if there is a change in ownership and the applicant and entity representative are already participants in the operation of a currently licensed home.

(3) An applicant and entity representative must take the adult family home administrator class when the application is for an additional licensed home and the class has not already been successfully taken.

(4) The class must be a minimum of forty-eight hours of classroom time and approved by the department.

(5) Under exceptional circumstances, the department may waive the administrator training class for up to four months if the application meets all the other requirements for licensure and all the components of WAC 388-76-10074.

The adult family home must ensure that the following are qualified and meet all of the applicable requirements of this chapter and chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC:

(1) Any person employed or used by the adult family home, directly or by contract, by an adult family home; including but not limited to:

(a) The provider;

(b) Entity representative;

(c) Resident manager;

(d) Staff; and

(((f)(e) Caregivers.

The adult family home must ensure that the provider, entity representative and resident manager have the following minimum qualifications:

(1) Be twenty-one years of age or older;

(2) Have a United States high school diploma or high school equivalency certificate as provided in RCW 28B.50.536, or any English or translated government document of the following:

(a) Successful completion of government approved public or private school education in a foreign country that includes an annual average of one thousand hours of instruction a year for twelve years, or no less than twelve thousand hours of instruction;

(b) Graduation from a foreign college, foreign university, or United States community college with a two-year diploma, such as an associate's degree;

(c) Admission to, or completion of course work at a foreign or United States college or university for which credit was awarded;

(d) Graduation from a foreign or United States college or university, including award of a bachelor's degree;

(e) Admission to, or completion of postgraduate course work at, a United States college or university for which credits were awarded, including award of a master's degree; or

(f) Successful passage of the United States board examination for registered nursing, or any professional medical occupation for which college or university education was required.

(3) Completion of the training requirements that were in effect on the date they were hired or became licensed providers, including the requirements described in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC;

(4) Have good moral and responsible character and reputation;

(5) Be literate and able to communicate in the English language, and assure that a person is on staff and available at the home who is capable of understanding and speaking English well enough to be able to respond appropriately to emergency situations and be able to read, understand and implement resident negotiated care plans.

(6) Assure that there is a mechanism to communicate with the resident in his or her primary language either through a qualified person on-site or readily available at all times, or other reasonable accommodations, such as a language line.

(7) Be able to carry out the management and administrative requirements of chapters 70.128, 70.129 and 74.34 RCW, this chapter and other applicable laws and regulations;

(8) Have completed at least one thousand hours of successful direct care experience in the previous sixty months obtained after age eighteen to vulnerable adults in a licensed or contracted setting before operating or managing a home. Individuals holding one of the following professional licenses are exempt from this requirement:

(a) Physician licensed under chapter 18.71 RCW;

(b) Osteopathic physician licensed under chapter 18.57 RCW;

(c) Osteopathic physician assistant licensed under chapter 18.57A RCW;

(d) Physician assistant licensed under chapter 18.71A RCW;

(e) Registered nurse, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or licensed practical nurse licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW.

(9) Have no disqualifying criminal convictions or pending criminal charges under chapter 388-113 WAC;

(10) Have none of the negative actions listed in WAC 388-76-10180;

(11) Obtain and keep valid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first-aid card or certificate as required in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC; and

(12) Have tuberculosis screening to establish tuberculosis status per this chapter.

The adult family home must ensure each caregiver has the following minimum qualifications:

(1) Be eighteen years of age or older;

(2) Has a clear understanding of the caregiver job responsibilities and knowledge of each resident's negotiated care plan to provide care specific to the needs of each resident;

(3) Has basic communication skills to:

(a) Be able to communicate or make provisions to communicate with the resident in his or her primary language; and

(b) Understand and speak English well enough to:

(i) Respond appropriately to emergency situations; and

(ii) Read, understand, and implement resident negotiated care plans;

(4) Has completed the training requirements in effect on the date the caregiver was hired, including the requirements applicable to the caregiver under chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC;

(5) Has no disqualifying criminal convictions or pending criminal charges under chapter 388-113 WAC;

(6) Has none of the negative actions listed in WAC 388-76-10180;

(7) Has a current valid ((first-aid))first-aid card or certificate as required in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC, except nurses, who are exempt from this requirement;

(8) Has a valid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) card or certificate as required in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC; and

(9) Meets the tuberculosis screening requirements of this chapter.

The adult family home must ensure that students and volunteers meet the following minimum qualifications:

(1) Be eighteen years old or older;

(2) Meet the department's training requirements of chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC;

(3) Have no criminal convictions listed in RCW 43.43.830 and 43.43.842 or state or federal findings of abandonment, abuse, neglect or financial exploitation; and

(4) Tuberculosis screening to establish tuberculosis status per this chapter.

The adult family home must ensure that a licensed nurse who is a provider, entity representative, or resident manager:

(1) Meets all minimum qualifications for providers, entity representatives, or resident managers listed in WAC 388-76-10130; and

(2) Has a current valid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) card or certificate as required in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(1) The adult family home must ensure staff persons hired before January 7, 2012 meet training requirements in effect on the date hired, including requirements in chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(2) The adult family home must ensure all adult family home caregivers, entity representatives, and resident managers hired on or after January 7, 2012, meet the long-term care worker training requirements of chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC, including but not limited to:

(a) Orientation and safety;

(b) Basic;

(c) Specialty for dementia, mental illness and/or developmental disabilities when serving residents with any of those primary special needs;

(d) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid; and

(e) Continuing education.

(3) All persons listed in subsection (2) of this section, must obtain the home-care aide certification if required by this section or chapters 246-980 or ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(a) Until March 1, 2016, a provisional home-care aide certification may be issued by the department of health to a long-term care worker who is limited English proficient.

(4) Even if an adult family home applicant does not intend to provide direct personal care, the applicant must meet the long-term care worker training and home-care aide certification requirements under chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC to the same extent that the requirements would apply if the applicant was a long-term care worker.

(5) Under RCW 18.88B.041 and chapter 246-980 WAC, certain individuals, including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants or persons who are in an approved certified nursing assistant ((programsprogram, are exempt from home-care aide certification and long-term care worker training requirements. This exemption does not apply to continuing education; these individuals must comply with continuing education requirements under chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.

(6) The adult family home must ensure that all staff receive the orientation and training necessary to perform their job duties.

Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.

The adult family home must keep documents related to staff in a place readily accessible to authorized department staff. These documents must be available during the staff's employment, and for at least two years following employment. The documents must include but are not limited to:

(1) Staff information such as address and contact information.

(2) Staff orientation and training records pertinent to duties, including, but not limited to:

(a) Training required by chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC, including as appropriate for each staff person, orientation, basic training or modified basic training, specialty training, nurse delegation core training, and continuing education;

(b) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation;

(c) First aid; and

(d) HIV/AIDS training.

(3) Tuberculosis testing results.

(4) Criminal history disclosure and background check results as required.

In addition to other licensing requirements for staff availability, the adult family home must:

(1) Ensure at least one qualified caregiver is present in the home whenever one or more residents are present in the home, except as provided in subsection (2). For purpose of this subsection, a qualified caregiver means someone who has completed orientation and basic training as required by chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC;

(2) Ensure that before the adult family home leaves a resident unattended:

(a) That the adult family home determines that the resident can be left unattended safely, based upon an assessment that identifies the resident's strengths and needs;

(b) The resident knows what to do in an emergency and is able to successfully act on that knowledge; such as leaving the home or calling 911, when necessary;

(c) The adult family home individualizes each resident's negotiated care plan to the resident's identified strengths and needs and includes a limited and specific amount of time the resident is safe to be left unattended;

(d) The resident consents to the plan to be left unattended; and

(e) The resident is able to contact a responsible staff person at all times.

(3) Designate an experienced, staff member who is capable of responding on behalf of the adult family home by phone or pager at all times.

(4) Give residents the telephone or pager number for the contact required in subsection (2) of this section;

(5) Ensure the provider, entity representative or resident manager is readily available to:

(a) Each resident;

(b) Residents' representatives;

(c) Caregivers; and

(d) Authorized state staff.

The adult family home must:

(1) Ensure that the safe food handling training requirements of chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC are met; and

(2) Serve meals:

(a) In the home where each resident lives; and

(b) That accommodate each resident's:

(i) Preferences;

(ii) Food allergies and sensitivities;

(iii) Caloric needs;

(iv) Cultural and ethnic background; and

(v) Physical condition that may make food intake difficult such as being hard for the resident to chew or swallow.

The adult family home must not admit or keep a resident with specialty care needs, such as developmental disability, mental illness, or dementia as defined in WAC 388-76-10000, if the provider, entity representative, resident manager and staff have not completed the specialty care training required by chapter ((388-112))388-112A WAC.