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AR Code § 20-10-2107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 21 - Arkansas Options Counseling for Long-Term Care Program|§ 20-10-2107. Fees

 (a) After the first three (3) failures of a long-term care facility to complete the form required under § 20-10-2106 in any calendar year, the Department of Human Services shall assess a fee against the long-term care facility of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each failure beyond three (3), with an annual maximum fee of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200).  (b) A long-term care facility assessed a fee under this section may appeal the assessment under § 20-10-208.
AR Code § 20-10-2201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 22 - Long-Term Care Quality Assurance|§ 20-10-2201. Purpose — Findings

 (a) The purpose of the quality assurance committee in a long-term care facility is to evaluate and improve the quality of health care rendered to residents of the facility.  (b) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) Confidentiality of committee proceedings and records is key to improving the quality of care in long-term care facilities by promoting thorough and candid discussions for a full review and analysis of care processes; and  (2) The work of the quality assurance committee is an ongoing process in which individuals from various disciplines meet as a committee to:  (A) Ensure that current practice standards are maintained;  (B) Prevent deviations from care practices to the extent possible;  (C) Track, trend, and identify care concerns; and  (D) Correct inappropriate care processes.
AR Code § 20-10-2202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 22 - Long-Term Care Quality Assurance|§ 20-10-2202. Applicability — Scope

 (a) This subchapter applies to long-term care facilities as those entities are defined in § 20-10-101.  (b) This subchapter does not expand, limit, or constrict any other privilege, particularly a privilege under § 16-46-105, § 20-9-502, or § 20-9-503.
AR Code § 20-10-2203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 22 - Long-Term Care Quality Assurance|§ 20-10-2203. Liability of quality assurance committee members — Construction

 (a) A cause of action for damages or monetary liability shall not arise against a member of the quality assurance committee for an act or proceeding undertaken or performed within the scope of the functions of the quality assurance committee if the committee member acts without malice or fraud.  (b) This subchapter does not confer immunity from liability on an individual while performing services other than as a member of a quality assurance committee.
AR Code § 20-10-2205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 22 - Long-Term Care Quality Assurance|§ 20-10-2205. Duty to advise quality assurance committees

 Upon a request of a quality assurance committee reviewing care provided in a long-term care facility, a physician, administrator, nurse, certified nurse's aide, nurse's aide-in-training, or other individual engaged in work in or about the long-term care facility and having information or knowledge relating to the care provided in the long-term care facility shall advise the quality assurance committee concerning all the relevant facts or information possessed by the individual concerning the quality of care provided in the long-term care facility.
AR Code § 20-10-2301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 23 - Personal Care Service Providers|§ 20-10-2301. Purpose and intent

 (a) The General Assembly recognizes that in order to provide for appropriate health care for all Arkansans:  (1) Personal care service providers are a vital component in the recovery from an illness or an injury;  (2) Sufficient personal care service providers should be available to meet the needs of all eligible recipients; and  (3) Personal care service providers should be allowed to provide in-home personal care service to eligible recipients twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week.    (b) It is the purpose of this subchapter to:  (1) Allow a private care agency to provide in-home personal care services twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week to eligible recipients;  (2) Provide for the reimbursement of the personal care services through Medicaid; and  (3) Authorize the Department of Human Services in its administration of the Arkansas Medicaid Program to set forth Medicaid provider participation requirements for a private care agency that will ensure sufficient available personal care service providers in order to meet the needs of all eligible recipients, including available in-home personal care services twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week.    (c) This subchapter does not supersede department rules that establish monthly benefit limits and prior authorization requirements.  (d) The department is not required to reimburse a private care agency for twenty-four-hour-a-day and seven-day-a-week personal care services.
AR Code § 20-10-2302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 23 - Personal Care Service Providers|§ 20-10-2302. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, “private care agency” means a provider that is certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services as a provider of home- and community-based health services and that:   (1) Furnishes in-home staffing services for personal and attendant care services; and  (2) Retains liability insurance of not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) to cover its employees and independent contractors while its employees and independent contractors are engaged in providing personal and attendant care services.
AR Code § 20-10-2303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 23 - Personal Care Service Providers|§ 20-10-2303. Private care agencies eligible for Medicaid reimbursement

 The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall take such action as required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to amend the Arkansas Medicaid Manual to include private care agencies that provide personal care services twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week as a qualified healthcare provider that is eligible for Medicaid reimbursement.
AR Code § 20-10-2304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 23 - Personal Care Service Providers|§ 20-10-2304. Rules

 (a) The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this subchapter.  (b) To be eligible for reimbursement under this subchapter, the private care agency shall provide personal care services that comply with rules promulgated by the board.  (c) The board shall:  (1) Establish a separate licensure category for private care agencies that provide personal care services twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week;  (2)  (A) Adopt, promulgate, and enforce rules and standards as necessary to implement this subchapter.  (B) A rule adopted to implement this subchapter shall be amended or repealed by the board as in the interest of the public through the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.;    (3) Require that:  (A)  (i) A qualified supervisor shall establish the frequency of in-person supervisory visits as part of the patient's plan of care based on the specific needs of the patient and the recommendations of the registered nurse.  (ii) The frequency of in-person visits shall be at least annually.  (iii)  (a) A qualified supervisor shall be a licensed nurse or have completed two (2) years of full-time study at an accredited institution of higher education.  (b) An individual who has a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma may substitute one (1) year of full-time employment in a supervisory capacity in a healthcare facility or community-based agency for one (1) year at an institution of higher education; and      (B) A private care agency maintain a primary location in Arkansas and a sufficient number of regional offices to adequately service the administrative needs of the private care agency and the patients of the private care agency; and    (4) Not require:  (A) A registered nurse to visit a patient every sixty-two (62) days to supervise services; or  (B) A branch office of a private care agency to be within a one-hundred-mile radius of a patient's home.      (d) The Department of Health shall implement the board's rules and supervise the conduct of the private care agencies as defined under this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-12-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 2 - Rural Medical Clinic Loans|§ 20-12-201. Purpose

 (a) The General Assembly is cognizant of an extreme shortage in the rural areas of this state of obstetricians, gynecologists, general pediatricians, general internists, and family practice physicians.  (b)  (1) The providing of incentives to attract and encourage obstetricians, gynecologists, general pediatricians, general internists, and family practice physicians to establish their practices within a rural area of this state is essential to the protection of the public health, welfare, and safety of the people of this state.  (2) By providing a source of low-interest funds, the State of Arkansas can offer incentives to obstetricians, gynecologists, general pediatricians, general internists, and family practice physicians to establish medical clinics in rural areas to meet the medical needs of thousands of citizens of this state.    (c) The procedures set forth in this subchapter to provide loans to these medical practitioners in rural areas for the establishment of medical clinics are deemed to be in the public interest and essential to the preservation of the public health and safety in rural areas.
AR Code § 20-12-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 2 - Rural Medical Clinic Loans|§ 20-12-202. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) [Repealed.]  (2) [Repealed.]  (3) “Rural area” means any city, town, or other area having a population of fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants or less according to the 1990 Federal Decennial Census. The census from federal or state penal institutions, federal or state human service institutions, institutions of higher education, or any similar facility shall not be included in the census figure when defining a city, town, or other area under this subchapter; and  (4) “Rural medical clinic loans” means loans in sums not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in the aggregate, to be used exclusively for land acquisition or for the construction, reconstruction, repair, or expansion of a building to be used as a medical clinic in a rural area and the acquisition and installation of equipment therein.
AR Code § 20-12-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 4 - Rural Health Services Revolving Fund Act|§ 20-12-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as the “Rural Health Services Revolving Fund Act”.
AR Code § 20-12-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 4 - Rural Health Services Revolving Fund Act|§ 20-12-402. Duties

 (a) It shall be the responsibility of the Department of Health to promulgate all rules for making application for the matching funds required by this subchapter.  (b) It shall be further the responsibility of the department to review all applications and approve those that shall be eligible for moneys under the provisions of this subchapter and as may otherwise be provided by law.
AR Code § 20-12-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 4 - Rural Health Services Revolving Fund Act|§ 20-12-403. Creation

 There is established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, a fund to be known as the “Rural Health Services Revolving Fund”.
AR Code § 20-12-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 4 - Rural Health Services Revolving Fund Act|§ 20-12-404. Matching

 (a)  (1) Funds requested by authority of this subchapter shall be matched on a cash basis of fifty to fifty (50:50) by the applicant.  (2) Applicants who have completed a community health needs assessment shall be eligible to match funds requested by authority of this subchapter on a cash basis of twenty-five to seventy-five (25:75) by the applicant.    (b) The state portion shall at no time exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) per county, local, commercial, or nonprofit operation.  (c) This match requirement does not apply to funds used by the Department of Health to administer the Rural Health Services Revolving Fund.
AR Code § 20-12-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 5 - Physician Recruitment and Retention Program|§ 20-12-501. Purpose — Grant established

 (a) It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter to establish a program of financial assistance to encourage physicians to locate in and remain in the practice of primary care medicine in communities of the state that have a population of not more than fifteen thousand (15,000) persons. It is the intent of the General Assembly that physicians who locate for a minimum of four (4) years in and carry on a full-time practice of family medicine in a priority medically underserved area as defined by the Division of Health Facilities Services of the Department of Health after July 1, 1999, shall be entitled to receive grants totalling fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) to be paid out over four (4) years. The first payment of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall be made when a practice is established by the physician in the community and patients are being seen in the office. The second, third, and fourth payments of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) each shall be made after completion of each continuous year of service.  (b) It is further the intent of this subchapter that individuals who were assisted by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program or the Community Match Loan and Rural Physician Recruitment Program are also eligible for benefits under this program.
AR Code § 20-12-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 5 - Physician Recruitment and Retention Program|§ 20-12-502. Administration by the Department of Health

 The program established in this subchapter shall be administered by the Department of Health. The department shall:   (1) Accept applications for grants under this subchapter;  (2) Determine the eligibility of applicants and grant or deny such grants from any funds available;  (3) Adopt and enforce appropriate rules regarding forms to be used by applicants for grants, and eligibility of applicants, and such other rules as the department deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this subchapter and to prevent abuse of the program provided for in this subchapter; and  (4) Develop criteria for evaluating medically underserved areas, which shall include, but not be limited to:  (A) Infant mortality rate;  (B) Poverty population percentage;  (C) Population-to-primary-care-physician ratio; and  (D) Teenage pregnancy rate.
AR Code § 20-12-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 5 - Physician Recruitment and Retention Program|§ 20-12-503. Eligibility

 (a)  (1) Any person licensed to practice medicine in this state who subsequent to July 1, 1999, establishes a full-time practice of family medicine in a community in Arkansas having a population of not more than fifteen thousand (15,000) persons as set forth in § 20-12-501, when that community is identified by the Department of Health as medically underserved shall be eligible to make application for a grant under this subchapter in an amount described under § 20-12-501.  (2) Grants shall be awarded on the basis of available funds, with priority given to rural communities having the greatest need.  (3) Grant recipients shall enter into a contract to serve a proportionate number of Medicaid patients for the community, agree to work within the existing healthcare system, and practice a minimum of thirty-two (32) hours a week.    (b)  (1) The department shall enter into a grant agreement with the recipient of a Rural Physician Incentive Grant.  (2) Each applicant to whom a grant is awarded shall execute a written grant agreement which shall incorporate the following obligations and conditions:  (A) The recipient of a grant shall commit to provide four (4) continuous years of primary care services in accordance with § 20-12-501;  (B)  (i) If any grant recipient under this subchapter does not engage in the practice of primary care services in accordance with the terms of this section, the recipient shall be obligated to repay the grant received together with interest thereon at the maximum rate allowed by Arkansas law or the federal discount rate plus five percent (5%) per year, whichever is less, the interest to accrue from the date each payment of funds was received by the recipient.  (ii) No interest shall accrue nor obligation to repay the principal sums accrued during any one (1) period of time that the recipient involuntarily serves on active duty in the United States Armed Forces; and    (C) Repayment of principal with interest shall be due and payable in full at the earliest to occur of the following events:  (i) Failure to remain in the originating rural community for four (4) continuous years for any reason other than temporary personal illness; and  (ii) Failure to practice primary care on a regularly sustained basis as defined in § 20-12-501(a).        (c) Persons accepted into and participating in the Rural Physician Incentive Grant Program before July 1, 1999, will be eligible to complete the program under the payment system established when they entered the program.
AR Code § 20-12-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 6 - Repayment of Faculty Medical Student Loans|§ 20-12-601. Purpose

 It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter to establish a program of financial assistance to encourage primary care physicians to accept full-time faculty positions in a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences area health education center community or at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine within the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
AR Code § 20-12-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 6 - Repayment of Faculty Medical Student Loans|§ 20-12-602. Eligibility

 (a) Board-eligible or board-certified family physicians and board-eligible or board-certified general pediatricians who join the full-time faculty at one (1) of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences area health education center family practice residency program training sites or at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine within the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall be eligible to receive financial assistance under this subchapter.  (b)  (1) The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences may provide financial assistance to eligible individuals for the repayment of medical student loans or personal loans made to or on behalf of a medical student.  (2) The amount of the financial assistance shall not exceed twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year for each year of service.  (3) An individual shall not be eligible for assistance for more than four (4) years.    (c) If the loan is from the Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program, the financial assistance shall be paid directly to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and credited to the repayment of the loan.
AR Code § 20-12-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12 - Rural Medical Services|Subchapter 6 - Repayment of Faculty Medical Student Loans|§ 20-12-603. Financial assistance — Rules

 (a) Financial assistance under this subchapter shall be made by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  (b) The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall adopt reasonable rules for the administration of this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-13-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 13 - Emergency Medical Services|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-13-101. Emergency Medical Services Revolving Fund Act

 (a) This section shall be known as the “Emergency Medical Services Revolving Fund Act”.  (b) There is established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be designated the “Emergency Medical Services Revolving Fund”.  (c)  (1) It shall be the responsibility of the Division of Emergency Medical Services of the Department of Health to promulgate all rules for making application for the matching funds.  (2) It shall be the further responsibility of the Department of Health to review all applications and approve those that shall be eligible for moneys under the provisions of this section and as may otherwise be provided by law.    (d)  (1) Funds requested by authority of this section shall be matched on a cash basis of fifty to fifty (50:50) by the applicant.  (2) The state portion shall at no time exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per county, local, commercial, or nonprofit operation, except that this limitation shall not apply when any county levies a motor vehicle tax to finance ambulance services as authorized by § 26-78-101 et seq.    (e) All moneys deposited into this fund pursuant to § 20-13-211 shall be used by the department for the following purposes:  (1) Certification processing for emergency medical technicians;  (2) Travel expenses related to the onsite administration of practical and written examinations of emergency medical technicians;  (3) Maintenance of the emergency medical technician certification software program;  (4) Educational programs for emergency medical technicians;  (5) Continuing maintenance of the required EMT-Instructor certification for agency personnel; and  (6) Other purposes consistent with this section.