Bill Text: HI HB2131 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of Health; Adult Residential Care Homes; Community Care Foster Family Homes; Inspections; Investigations of Complaints; Time Limits
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-03-06 - Referred to HTH/HMS, WAM. [HB2131 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-HB2131-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CARE FACILITIES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 321-15.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) All adult residential care homes shall be licensed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein. The department shall conduct unannounced visits, other than the inspection for relicensing, to every licensed adult residential care home and expanded adult residential care home on an annual basis and at such intervals as determined by the department to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of each resident. Unannounced visits may be conducted during or outside regular business hours. All inspections relating to follow-up visits, visits to confirm correction of deficiencies, or visits to investigate complaints or suspicion of abuse or neglect shall be conducted unannounced during or outside regular business hours. Annual inspections for relicensing may be conducted during regular business hours or at intervals determined by the department. Annual inspections for relicensing shall be conducted with notice, unless otherwise determined by the department.
Following any visit or inspection conducted under this subsection, including visits to investigate complaints, the department shall provide the licensee of the adult residential care home or expanded adult residential care home, as the case may be, with a list of any deficiencies in the operation of the care home detected by the visit or inspection. Within thirty working days of receiving the list of deficiencies, the licensee shall submit to the department a written corrective action plan to address the listed deficiencies, including preventive measures to ensure compliance with this chapter and the time frame in which the deficiencies will be corrected. The department shall provide a response to the licensee within sixty working days of receiving the plan."
SECTION 2. Act 93, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 321-C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, in section 2 of the Act to read as follows:
"§321-C Community care foster family home, authority over and evaluation of. (a) Any person in any household who wants to take in, for a fee, any adult who is at the nursing facility level of care and who is unrelated to anyone in the household, for twenty-four hour living accommodations, including personal care and homemaker services, may do so only after the household meets the required standards established for certification and obtains a certificate of approval from the department or its designee.
(b) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 relating to:
(1) Standards of conditions and competence for the operation of community care foster family homes;
(2) Procedures for obtaining and renewing a certificate of approval from the department;
(3) Minimum grievance procedures for clients of community care foster family home services; and
(4) Requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes including:
(A) Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers be twenty-one years of age or older;
(B) Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers complete a minimum of twelve hours of continuing education every twelve months or at least twenty-four hours of continuing education every twenty-four months;
(C) Allowing the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home for no more than twenty-eight hours in a calendar week, not to exceed five hours per day; provided that the substitute caregiver is present in the community care foster family home during the primary caregiver's absence;
(D) Where the primary caregiver is absent from the community care foster family home in excess of the hours as prescribed in subparagraph (C), mandating that the substitute caregiver be a certified nurse aide; and
(E) Mandating that the substitute caregiver have, at a minimum, one year prior work experience as a caregiver in a community residential setting or in a medical facility.
(c) As a condition for obtaining a certificate of approval, community care foster family homes shall comply with rules adopted under subsection (b) and satisfy the background check requirements under section 321-D. The department or its designee may deny a certificate of approval if:
(1) An operator or other adult residing in the community care foster family home, except for adults receiving care, has been convicted of a crime other than a minor traffic violation involving a fine of $50 or less;
(2) The department or its designee finds that the criminal history record of an operator or other adult residing in the home, except for adults receiving care, poses a risk to the health, safety, or well-being of adults in care; or
(3) An operator or other adult residing in the community care foster family home, except for adults receiving care, is a perpetrator of abuse as defined in section 346-222.
(d) Upon approval of a community care foster family home, the department or its designee shall issue a certificate of approval that shall continue in force for one year, or for two years if a community care foster family home has been certified for at least one year and is in good standing pursuant to standards adopted by the department, unless sooner suspended or revoked for cause. The department or its designee shall renew the certificate of approval only if, after an annual or biennial evaluation, the home continues to meet the standards required for certification.
(e) Any community care foster family home shall be subject to investigation by the department or its designee at any time and in the manner, place, and form as provided in procedures to be established by the department.
(f) The department or its designee may suspend or revoke a certificate of approval if the department or its designee deems that a community care foster family home is unwilling or unable to comply with the rules adopted under subsection (b); provided that:
(1) The suspension or revocation shall be immediate when conditions exist that constitute an imminent danger to the life, health, or safety of adults receiving care;
(2) A community care foster family home whose certificate of approval has been suspended or revoked shall immediately notify its clients and their case managers;
(3) A community care foster family home whose certificate of approval has been suspended or revoked may appeal to the department through its established process, but the appeal shall not stay the suspension or revocation;
(4) A suspended or revoked certificate of approval may be reinstated if the department or its designee deems that the home is willing and able to comply with the rules adopted under subsection (b); and
(5) A revoked certificate of approval shall be restored only after a new application for a certificate of approval is submitted to the department or its designee and approved.
(g) Any community care foster family home shall be subject to monitoring and evaluation by the department or its designee for certification compliance and quality assurance on an annual or biennial basis.
(h) Following any inspection conducted pursuant to subsection (e) or (g), including visits to investigate complaints, the department shall provide the operator of the community care foster family home with a list of any deficiencies in the operation of the home detected by the inspection. Within thirty working days of receiving the list of deficiencies, the operator shall submit to the department a written corrective action plan to address the listed deficiencies, including preventive measures to ensure compliance with this chapter and the time frame in which the deficiencies will be corrected. The department shall provide a response to the licensee within sixty working days of receiving the plan."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Department of Health; Adult Residential Care Homes; Community Care Foster Family Homes; Inspections; Investigations of Complaints; Time Limits
Description:
Requires adult residential care homes and community care foster family homes to submit corrective action plans to address deficiencies found pursuant to Department of Health inspections. Requires the Department of Health to respond to corrective action plans within sixty working days of receiving the plan. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB2131 HD1)
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