Chapter 388-71. Home and community services and programs.  


Section 388-71-0100. What are the statutory references for WAC 388-71-0100 through 388-71-01281?
Section 388-71-0105. What definitions apply to adult protective services?
Section 388-71-0110. What is the purpose of an adult protective services investigation?
Section 388-71-0115. When is an investigation conducted?
Section 388-71-01201. What state-only funded services may be offered to a vulnerable adult victim of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, neglect or self-neglect?
Section 388-71-01202. When does the department make a substantiated initial finding of an individual used by a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility to provide services to vulnerable adults?
Section 388-71-01205. When does APS notify the alleged perpetrator of a substantiated initial finding?
Section 388-71-01210. How may APS give the alleged perpetrator notice of the substantiated initial finding?
Section 388-71-01215. When is notice to the alleged perpetrator complete?
Section 388-71-01220. What proves that APS provided notice of the substantiated initial finding to the alleged perpetrator?
Section 388-71-01225. What information must not be in the APS finding notice to the alleged perpetrator?
Section 388-71-01230. Will APS notify anyone other than the alleged perpetrator of the substantiated initial finding of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation or neglect?
Section 388-71-01235. Can an alleged perpetrator challenge a substantiated initial finding of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation or neglect?
Section 388-71-01240. How does an alleged perpetrator request an administrative hearing to challenge a substantiated initial finding of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation or neglect?
Section 388-71-01245. What laws and rules will control the administrative hearings held regarding substantiated initial findings?
Section 388-71-01247. What additional rules apply to administrative hearings held regarding substantiated initial findings made against a nursing assistant employed in a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility?
Section 388-71-01250. How is confidential information protected in the appeal process?
Section 388-71-01255. How does the administrative law judge make a decision regarding the substantiated initial finding?
Section 388-71-01260. When is the alleged perpetrator notified of the administrative law judge's decision?
Section 388-71-01265. What if the alleged perpetrator or the department disagrees with the decision?
Section 388-71-01270. What happens if the administrative law judge rules against the department?
Section 388-71-01275. When does the APS substantiated initial finding become a final finding?
Section 388-71-01280. Does the department disclose information about final findings of abuse, abandonment, neglect and financial exploitation?
Section 388-71-01281. To whom does the department report a final substantiated finding against a nursing assistant employed in a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility?
Section 388-71-0500. What is the purpose of this chapter?
Section 388-71-0505. How does a client hire an individual provider?
Section 388-71-0510. How does a person become an individual provider?
Section 388-71-0512. What is included in Washington state's name and date of birth background check and the Washington state and national fingerprint-based background check?
Section 388-71-0513. Is a background check required of a long-term care worker employed by a home care agency licensed by the department of health?
Section 388-71-0514. Can an individual provider or licensed home care agency long-term care worker work pending the outcome of the national fingerprint-based background check?
Section 388-71-0515. What are the responsibilities of an individual provider when providing services to a client?
Section 388-71-0516. What are the responsibilities of home care agency when providing care to a client?
Section 388-71-0517. What are the responsibilities of a home care agency when the home care agency long-term care worker is a family member of the client and the client is receiving in-home medicaid-funded personal care or DDD respite services?
Section 388-71-0520. What are the training requirements for an individual provider or a home care agency long-term care worker?
Section 388-71-0523. What are the training/certification requirements for individual providers and home care agency long-term care workers?
Section 388-71-0540. When will the department, AAA, or department designee deny payment for services of an individual provider or home care agency long-term care worker?
Section 388-71-0543. When may the department, AAA, or department designee deny payment for the services of an individual provider?
Section 388-71-0544. When may the department, AAA, or department designee deny payment to a home care agency for the services of a long-term care worker that it employs?
Section 388-71-0546. When may the department, AAA, or department designee reject your choice of an individual provider?
Section 388-71-0551. When may the department, AAA, or department designee terminate an individual provider's contract?
Section 388-71-0553. When may the department summarily suspend an individual provider's contract?
Section 388-71-0556. When can the department, AAA, or managed care entity otherwise terminate an individual provider's contract?
Section 388-71-0560. What are the client's rights if the department denies, terminates, or summarily suspends an individual provider's contract?
Section 388-71-0561. When does an individual provider have the right to an administrative hearing and how can a hearing be requested?
Section 388-71-0562. When does a medicaid contracted home care agency have the right to an administrative hearing and how can a hearing be requested?
Section 388-71-05640. Self-directed care—Who must direct self-directed care?
Section 388-71-05833. What content must be included in safety training?
Section 388-71-05834. When does a safety training attestation process need to be completed?
Section 388-71-06020. What is the purpose of WAC 388-71-06020 through 388-71-06165?
Section 388-71-06040. What definitions apply to WAC 388-71-06020 through 388-71-06165?
Section 388-71-06060. What is the purpose of the referral registry?
Section 388-71-06080. Who is eligible to request a list of providers from the referral registry?
Section 388-71-06125. Who hires an IP or prospective IP?
Section 388-71-06145. What requirements must an applicant satisfy to be placed on the referral registry as a provider?
Section 388-71-06150. What requirements does an IP or prospective IP have to meet in order to continue to be listed on the referral registry?
Section 388-71-06155. When will an IP or prospective IP be removed from the referral registry?
Section 388-71-06165. Can the removal of an IP or prospective IP from the referral registry be contested?
Section 388-71-0702. What is the purpose of adult day services?
Section 388-71-0704. What services are provided in adult day care?
Section 388-71-0706. What services are provided in adult day health?
Section 388-71-0708. What are the eligibility criteria for enrollment in adult day care?
Section 388-71-0710. What are the eligibility criteria for enrollment in adult day health?
Section 388-71-0712. What is considered skilled nursing in adult day health?
Section 388-71-0714. What is considered rehabilitative therapy in adult day health?
Section 388-71-0716. What kind of assessment and service plan is required to determine a client's unmet needs for adult day care?
Section 388-71-0718. What is the adult day care center's responsibility in developing the client's negotiated care plan?
Section 388-71-0720. What is the adult day health center's responsibility in working with the department or their designee to obtain, use and update the CARE assessment?
Section 388-71-0722. What is the adult day health center's responsibility in developing the client's negotiated care plan?
Section 388-71-0724. How do I apply for an adult day program state contract?
Section 388-71-0728. Can a client receive both adult day care and adult day health?
Section 388-71-0730. What other funds are available through the area agency on aging?
Section 388-71-0732. What are the client's hearing rights?
Section 388-71-0734. Would the department limit expenditures in the adult day service program?
Section 388-71-0736. What business and administrative documentation does the center need?
Section 388-71-0738. What operating policies and procedures does the center need?
Section 388-71-0740. What are the center's fiscal operational responsibilities?
Section 388-71-0744. What are the center's requirements for client records?
Section 388-71-0746. What are the adult day center's client records requirements?
Section 388-71-0748. What are the adult day centers' record retention requirements?
Section 388-71-0750. What are the adult day center's personnel policies and procedures requirements?
Section 388-71-0752. What are the adult day centers' staffing qualifications and requirements?
Section 388-71-0754. What are the adult day center's staff ratio requirements?
Section 388-71-0756. What are the adult day care centers' minimum staff requirements?
Section 388-71-0758. What are the adult day health centers' minimum staff requirements?
Section 388-71-0760. What are the adult day centers' employee file requirements?
Section 388-71-0762. What are the adult day centers' employee education and training requirements?
Section 388-71-0764. How will medications be provided in an adult day center?
Section 388-71-0766. What are the adult day centers' facility requirements?
Section 388-71-0770. What are the adult day centers' food and nutrition service requirements?
Section 388-71-0772. What are the adult day centers' emergency procedures requirements?
Section 388-71-0774. What are the adult day centers' quality assurance plan requirements?
Section 388-71-0776. Effective date.
Section 388-71-0836. What definitions apply to the long-term care worker training requirements?
Section 388-71-0839. What long-term care workers are exempt from the seventy hour, thirty hour or twelve hour basic training requirement?
Section 388-71-0841. What is orientation?
Section 388-71-0846. What content must be included in orientation?
Section 388-71-0850. What is safety training?
Section 388-71-0855. What content must be included in safety training?
Section 388-71-0860. Who must complete orientation and safety training and by when?
Section 388-71-0870. What is the seventy hour basic training?
Section 388-71-0875. Who must complete the seventy hour basic training and by when?
Section 388-71-0880. Who must take the thirty hour training instead of the seventy hour basic training and when must it be completed?
Section 388-71-0885. What is the thirty hour training?
Section 388-71-0888. What are the training and certification requirements for an individual provider who is initially hired to provide care for one person, if the authorized monthly hours fluctuate or individual provider begins working for more than one department client?
Section 388-71-0890. What are the training requirements for parent providers who are individual providers for their adult children through DDD?
Section 388-71-0895. What is the twelve hour parent provider training?
Section 388-71-0906. What topics must be taught in the core competencies of basic training?
Section 388-71-0911. What are the competencies and learning objectives for the core competencies of basic training?
Section 388-71-0916. What topics may be taught in the population specific competencies of basic training?
Section 388-71-0921. What are the population specific competencies?
Section 388-71-0931. What other methods of training may count towards the seventy hour basic training requirement?
Section 388-71-0932. What is on-the-job training?
Section 388-71-0936. What is nurse delegation core training?
Section 388-71-0941. What is specialized diabetes nurse delegation training?
Section 388-71-0946. Who is required to complete the nurse delegation core training, and when?
Section 388-71-0951. Who is required to complete the specialized diabetes nurse delegation training, and when?
Section 388-71-0953. Can nurse delegation core and specialized diabetes training occur in the same year as basic training?
Section 388-71-0956. Is competency testing required for the nurse delegation core training and specialized diabetes training?
Section 388-71-0970. What documentation is required for completion of each training?
Section 388-71-0973. What documentation is required for a long-term care worker to apply for the home care aide certification or recertification?
Section 388-71-0975. Who is required to obtain certification as a home care aide, and when?
Section 388-71-0980. Can a home care agency or client employ a long-term care worker who has not completed the training and/or certification requirements?
Section 388-71-0985. What is continuing education?
Section 388-71-0990. How many hours of continuing education are required each year?
Section 388-71-0991. When must a long-term care worker or certified home care aide complete continuing education?
Section 388-71-1001. What long-term care workers are exempt from the continuing education requirement?
Section 388-71-1006. What kinds of training topics may be covered in continuing education?
Section 388-71-1021. What trainings must be taught with a curriculum approved by DSHS?
Section 388-71-1026. What must be submitted to DSHS for curriculum approval?
Section 388-71-1031. What is the curriculum approval process for orientation, safety, seventy hour basic training (core and population specific training), the thirty hour basic training, the twelve hour parent provider training, and continuing education?
Section 388-71-1045. What are a training entity's responsibilities?
Section 388-71-1050. Must training entities and their instructors be approved by DSHS?
Section 388-71-1051. Can DSHS deny or terminate a contract with an instructor or training entity?
Section 388-71-1055. What are the minimum qualifications for an instructor of the seventy hour basic training (core and population specific training), thirty hour training, twelve hour DDD parent provider training, on-the-job training, nurse delegation core training, and nurse delegation specialized diabetes training?
Section 388-71-1060. What are the minimum qualifications for an instructor of orientation, safety, and continuing education?
Section 388-71-1066. What must be included in a class on adult education?
Section 388-71-1076. What is a guest speaker, and what are the minimum qualifications to be a guest speaker?
Section 388-71-1081. What are the requirements for the training partnership to conduct training?
Section 388-71-1083. Must the department verify that training entities and their community instructors meet the minimum instructor qualifications?
Section 388-71-1091. What physical resources are required for classroom training and testing?
Section 388-71-1096. What standard training practices must be maintained for classroom training and testing?
Section 388-71-1106. What components must competency testing include?
Section 388-71-1111. What experience or training must individuals have to be able to perform competency testing?
Section 388-71-1120. How must competency test administration be standardized?
Section 388-71-1125. What form of identification must long-term care workers show before taking a competency test?
Section 388-71-1130. How many times may a competency test be taken?