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AR Code § 20-10-1504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 15 - Alzheimer's Special Care Standards Act|§ 20-10-1504. Disclosure of treatment offered

 (a)  (1) Any facility having an Alzheimer's special care unit shall be required to disclose the form of care or treatment provided to or for persons with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease or related dementia.  (2)  (A) The disclosure shall be made to the Office of Long-Term Care and to any person or the person's guardian or relative seeking placement within an Alzheimer's special care unit.  (B) The office shall examine all such disclosures as part of the facility's license renewal procedure and verify their accuracy.      (b) Each disclosure shall explain the additional care provided in each of the following areas:  (1) Treatment philosophy: The Alzheimer's special care unit’s or program's written statement of its overall treatment philosophy and mission which reflects the needs of residents afflicted with dementia;  (2) Screening, admission, and discharge procedures, assessment, planning and implementation of care, staffing patterns, and training ratios unique to the unit;  (3) Physical environment and design features appropriate to support the functioning of cognitively impaired adult residents;  (4) The frequency and types of resident activities;  (5) The involvement of families and the availability of family support programs; and  (6) The costs of care and any additional fees unique to the Alzheimer's special care unit or program.    (c)  (1) If a facility having an Alzheimer's special care unit does not meet those specific standards established by the office, the office shall instruct the facility to immediately cease advertising or holding itself out as having one (1) or more special programs for residents with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease or related dementia.  (2) If the facility fails or refuses to comply with instructions from the office, the office may sue in the name of the state the facility and any owner, manager, or director of the facility to enjoin the facility from advertising or holding itself out as having one (1) or more special programs for residents with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease or related dementia.
AR Code § 20-10-1505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 15 - Alzheimer's Special Care Standards Act|§ 20-10-1505. Standards of care

 The Office of Long-Term Care shall establish and promulgate minimum standards for the care and treatment of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia in Alzheimer's special care units.
AR Code § 20-10-1601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 16 - Quality Assurance Levy|§ 20-10-1601. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) [Repealed.]  (2) [Repealed.]  (3)  (A) “Gross receipts” means gross receipts paid as compensation for services provided to residents of nursing facilities, including, but not limited to, client participation.  (B) “Gross receipts” does not mean charitable contributions;    (4) “Medicaid” means the medical assistance program established by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as it existed on January 1, 2001, and administered by the Division of Medical Services;  (5) “Midnight census” means the count of:  (A) Each patient occupying a nursing facility bed at midnight of each day;  (B) Those beds placed on hold during a period of time not to exceed five (5) consecutive calendar days during which a patient is in a hospital bed; and  (C) Those beds placed on hold during a period of time not to exceed fourteen (14) consecutive calendar days during which a patient is on therapeutic home leave;    (6) “Multiplier” means the fixed dollar amount used to calculate the quality assurance fee;  (7)  (A) “Nursing facilities” means any buildings, structures, agencies, institutions, or other places which require payment for the reception, accommodation, board, care, or treatment of more than three (3) unrelated individuals who due to a physical or mental infirmity are unable to care for themselves.  (B) “Nursing facilities” does not mean offices of private physicians and surgeons, residential care facilities, assisted living facilities, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, hospitals, institutions operated by the United States Government or licensed by the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services, or any facility which is conducted by and for those who rely exclusively upon treatment by prayer for healing in accordance with tenets or practices of any recognized religious denomination; and    (8) “Patient days” means the number of patients in a nursing facility as determined by the midnight census.
AR Code § 20-10-1602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 16 - Quality Assurance Levy|§ 20-10-1602. Calculation of quality assurance fee

 (a) There is levied a quality assurance fee on nursing facilities to be calculated in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.  (b)  (1) The quality assurance fee shall be an amount determined each month by multiplying the patient days, as reported by each nursing facility for each day of the month, by the multiplier.  (2) Each multiplier shall be:  (A) Calculated by the Division of Medical Services within the Department of Human Services to produce an aggregate annual quality assurance fee payment equal to six percent (6%) of the aggregate annual gross receipts; and  (B) Subject to prospective adjustment as necessary for annual aggregate quality assurance payments to equal six percent (6%) of the aggregate annual gross receipts.      (c)  (1) Between March 9, 2001, and June 30, 2001, the multiplier shall be five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25).  (2)  (A) On and after July 1, 2001, and annually thereafter, the multiplier shall be determined using the patient days and gross receipts reported to the division for a period of at least six (6) months and shall be annualized.  (B) The division shall determine the six-month period to be used in order to calculate the multiplier.
AR Code § 20-10-1603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 16 - Quality Assurance Levy|§ 20-10-1603. Reporting and collection

 (a) On the tenth day of the first full month following March 9, 2001, and on the tenth day of each month thereafter, each nursing facility shall file a report with the Division of Medical Services within the Department of Human Services listing the patient days for the preceding month.  (b) The quality assurance fee shall be due and payable for the previous month by the thirtieth of each month.  (c) The payment of the quality assurance fee by the nursing facilities shall be reported as an allowable cost for Medicaid reimbursement purposes.
AR Code § 20-10-1604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 16 - Quality Assurance Levy|§ 20-10-1604. Administration

 (a) The administration of this subchapter shall be exercised by the Director of the Division of Medical Services and shall be subject to the provisions of the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.  (b)  (1) In accordance with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., the Division of Medical Services shall promulgate rules and prescribe forms for:  (A) The proper imposition and collection of the quality assurance fee;  (B)  (i) The enforcement of this subchapter, including, but not limited to, license nonrenewal, letters of caution, sanctions, or fines.  (ii) The fine shall be at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but no more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). The fine and outstanding quality assurance fee shall accrue interest at the maximum rate permitted by law from the date the quality assurance fee is due until payment of the quality assurance fee and the fine;    (C) The format for reporting by all nursing homes the total patient days and gross receipts; and  (D) The administration of the provisions of this subchapter.    (2) The rules shall not grant any exceptions to, or exceptions from, the quality assurance fee.    (c)  (1) The quality assurance fee assessed and collected pursuant to this subchapter shall be assessed and deposited as a designated account within the Arkansas Medicaid Program Trust Fund.  (2) The designated account shall be separate and distinct from the general fund and shall be supplementary to the Arkansas Medicaid Program Trust Fund.  (3) Funds in the account derived from nursing facilities that are not operated by a governmental entity shall not be used to replace other general revenues appropriated and funded by the General Assembly or other revenues used to support Medicaid.  (4) This designated account shall be exempt from budgetary cuts, reductions, or eliminations caused by a deficiency of general revenues.  (5) Earnings on investments from this designated account shall remain a part of the designated account and shall not be deposited into the general fund.    (d)  (1) Except as necessary to reimburse any funds borrowed to supplement funds in the designated account, the designated account moneys in the Arkansas Medicaid Program Trust Fund and the matching federal financial participation under Title XIX of the Social Security Act for expenditures from the Arkansas Medicaid Program Trust Fund shall be used only to reimburse additional costs paid to Medicaid-certified nursing facilities under the long-term care cost reimbursement methodologies of the Arkansas Medicaid Program.  (2) No nursing facility shall be guaranteed, expressly or otherwise, that any additional moneys paid to the nursing facility will equal or exceed the amount of its quality assurance fee.
AR Code § 20-10-1606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 16 - Quality Assurance Levy|§ 20-10-1606. Waiver for nursing facilities under life-care facility contracts

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall apply for a waiver of the uniform healthcare-related tax under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68, as in effect on January 1, 2007, to exempt each nursing facility that provides nursing care exclusively under contract with life-care facilities licensed under § 23-93-201 et seq. from the quality assurance fee and to allow adjustment of the quality assurance fee paid by state-operated nursing facilities.  (b) Upon receiving the waiver, the department shall discontinue collecting the quality assurance fee from any nursing facility that provides nursing care exclusively under life-care facility contracts and adjust the quality assurance fee paid by state-operated nursing facilities pursuant to the waiver.
AR Code § 20-10-1701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Assisted Living Act”.
AR Code § 20-10-1702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1702. Purpose and intent

 (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to:  (1) Promote the availability of appropriate services for elderly persons and adults with disabilities in the least restrictive and most homelike environment;  (2) Encourage the development of facilities that promote the dignity, individuality, privacy, and decision-making ability of those persons;  (3) Provide for the health, safety, and welfare of residents of facilities offering assisted living services in the state;  (4) Promote continued improvement of those facilities;  (5) Include residential care facilities in the assisted living program; and  (6) Encourage the development of innovative and affordable facilities particularly for persons with low to moderate incomes.    (b) The General Assembly recognizes that:  (1) Facilities offering assisted living services are a necessary part of the continuum of long-term care in the State of Arkansas;  (2) Facilities offering assisted living services should be operated and regulated as residential environments with supportive services and not as medical or nursing facilities;  (3) The services available in these facilities, either directly or through contract or agreement, are intended to help residents remain as independent as possible; and  (4) Residential care facilities have been providing many assisted living services for years and should be allowed to participate in the new assisted living program.
AR Code § 20-10-1703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1703. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1)  (A) “Assisted living facility” means any building or buildings, section or distinct part of a building, boarding home, home for the aged, or other residential facility, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide assisted living services for a period exceeding twenty-four (24) hours to more than three (3) adult residents of the facility who are not relatives of the owner or administrator.  (B) “Assisted living facility” includes those facilities which provide assisted living services either directly or through contractual arrangements or which facilitate contracting in the name of residents;    (2) “Assisted living program” means a program of assisted living services;  (3) “Assisted living services” means housing, meals, laundry, socialization, transportation, one (1) or more personal services, and limited nursing services;  (4) [Repealed.]  (5)  (A) “Limited nursing services” means acts that may be performed by licensed personnel while carrying out their professional duties, but limited to those acts that the Department of Human Services specifies by rule.  (B) Acts that may be specified by rule as allowable limited nursing services shall be for persons who meet the admission criteria established by the department for assisted living facilities, shall not be complex enough to require twenty-four-hour nursing supervision, and may include such services as the application and care of routine dressings and care of casts, braces, and splints;    (6) “Person” means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity;  (7)  (A) “Personal services” means assistance with or supervision of the activities of daily living and self-administration of medication and other similar services as the department may define by rule.  (B) “Personal services” shall not be construed to mean the provision of medical, dental, or alcohol and drug abuse treatment or mental health services; and    (8) “Twenty-four-hour nursing” means services that are ordered by a physician for a resident whose condition requires the supervision of a physician and continued monitoring of vital signs and physical status and whose condition is medically complex enough to require on-site nursing supervision on a twenty-four-hour-per-day basis.
AR Code § 20-10-1705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1705. Fees

 (a) The Department of Human Services may charge fees which shall be paid by assisted living facilities to cover administrative costs associated with licensing, inspection, and the regulation of assisted living facilities.  (b) The department shall promulgate rules necessary for charging administrative fees.
AR Code § 20-10-1706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1706. Reimbursement

 For Medicaid-eligible clients, the Department of Human Services shall reimburse assisted living facilities on a per diem basis in accordance with approval for per diem reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
AR Code § 20-10-1707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1707. Licensure

 (a)  (1) Each assisted living facility in the State of Arkansas shall first obtain a license to operate from the Department of Human Services.  (2) The department shall promulgate rules for the licensure and operation of assisted living facilities.    (b) Any person establishing, conducting, managing, or operating an assisted living facility within the meaning of this subchapter or using the term “assisted living” to promote the facility's services without first having obtained an assisted living license shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to the penalties prescribed for a Class A misdemeanor. However, residential care facilities licensed or holding a permit of approval as of April 2, 2001, may use the term “assisted living” to promote their services.  (c) Each day that an assisted living facility shall operate after a first conviction shall be considered a Class D felony, and the person establishing, conducting, managing, or operating an assisted living facility upon conviction shall be subject to the penalties prescribed for a Class D felony.
AR Code § 20-10-1708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1708. Limited licensure option

 A facility licensed as of April 2, 2001, and subsequent purchasers have the option of converting all or part of the facility to assisted living under § 20-10-1704(d) or choosing to remain licensed as a residential care facility.
AR Code § 20-10-1709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 17 - Arkansas Assisted Living Act|§ 20-10-1709. Permit of approval

 (a) Facilities offering assisted living services shall obtain a permit of approval. However, permits of approval held by residential care facilities as of April 2, 2001, or held by subsequent purchasers of those facilities, shall also be considered permits of approval for assisted living without further action. However, residential care facilities that choose to offer assisted living services are not exempted from assisted living licensure requirements except as provided in § 20-10-1704.  (b)  (1)  (A) Provided, further, that in order to take advantage of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, one (1) new facility chosen by the Department of Human Services may serve as a pilot project without the necessity of a permit of approval. This facility shall be exempt from the permit of approval process, provided that in 2001 it is awarded funding from the Coming Home Project and tax credits from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority.  (B) The Coming Home Project means the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/NCB Development Corporation grant.    (2) The facility shall have no more than sixty (60) beds and shall serve a population a majority of which is low-income as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.  (3) The pilot project facility shall still meet all other licensure requirements.
AR Code § 20-10-1801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 18 - Long-Term Care Facilities Emergency Generator Act of 2001|§ 20-10-1801. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Long-Term Care Facilities Emergency Generator Act of 2001”.
AR Code § 20-10-1802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 18 - Long-Term Care Facilities Emergency Generator Act of 2001|§ 20-10-1802. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Areas of refuge” means any hallways, corridors, dining facilities, lobbies, reception areas, or community rooms designated by the nursing facility and approved by the Office of Long-Term Care;  (2) “Critical systems” means:  (A) Heating systems;  (B) Cooling systems;  (C) Call light or nurse call system;  (D) Illumination, heating and cooling, and life-support equipment or life-sustaining equipment in areas of refuge;  (E) Alarm systems, including fire and smoke alarms and fire extinguishing systems;  (F) Paging systems or speaker systems if intended for communication during an emergency;  (G) Life-sustaining equipment and life-support equipment;  (H) Refrigeration for medications and for food and liquids that require refrigeration;  (I) Continuous operation of telephone systems;  (J) Hot water circulation pumps and boiler rooms; and  (K) Elevators in facilities with elevators;    (3) “Existing facility” means a facility constructed or for which plans for construction have been approved by the Office of Long-Term Care, before April 13, 2001;  (4) “Facility” means a nursing facility or nursing home; and  (5) “New resident” means a person who has not been previously admitted to the nursing facility in the last fourteen (14) days.
AR Code § 20-10-1804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 18 - Long-Term Care Facilities Emergency Generator Act of 2001|§ 20-10-1804. Penalties

 (a) If a nursing facility or nursing home fails to comply with this subchapter, the following penalties may be applied to the facility:  (1) A fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) may be assessed by the Office of Long-Term Care for each month in which the facility fails to comply with any provision of this subchapter;  (2)  (A) A fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) may be assessed by the office for each calendar day during which a facility lacks electrical power if the outage continues for more than eight (8) consecutive hours.  (B) However, the fine may be imposed if the facility fails to provide emergency power for life-sustaining equipment or life-support equipment and to exit lighting immediately upon loss of normal or regular power supplies;    (3) In addition to any fine or other penalty, the facility may be prohibited from admitting new residents until the facility is in compliance with the requirements of this subchapter, as determined by the office;  (4) A fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) may be assessed by the office for each new admission that occurs during a period in which new admissions are prohibited;  (5) Appeals from the imposition of any monetary penalty under this subchapter shall be made pursuant to § 20-10-208; and  (6) Appeals from the imposition of a denial of new admissions under this subchapter shall be made pursuant to § 20-10-303 [repealed].    (b) Penalties allowed under this subchapter may be waived by the office for any existing facility that is scheduled to be replaced by a new facility which is under construction as of June 1, 2002.  (c) Penalties under this subchapter shall be waived when the generator is rendered inoperable due to natural disaster or other conditions beyond the control or authority of the facility and when the facility has taken reasonable actions to ensure the operation of the generator.