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AR Code § 20-10-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-225. Alterations, additions, and new construction of facilities

 (a) The Department of Human Services shall prescribe by rule that any licensee or applicant desiring to make specified types of alterations or additions to its facilities or to construct new facilities shall, before commencing such alterations, additions, or new construction, submit plans and specifications for them to the department for preliminary inspection and approval or recommendations with respect to compliance with the rules and standards.  (b) From time to time, the Secretary of the Department of Human Services or his or her agent shall inspect each construction project approved by the United States Surgeon General. If the inspection so warrants, the secretary or his or her agent shall certify to the United States Surgeon General that work has been performed upon the project, or purchases have been made, in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, and that payment of an installment of federal funds is due the applicant.
AR Code § 20-10-226 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-226. Inspections of facilities

 The Department of Human Services shall make such inspections as it may prescribe by rule.
AR Code § 20-10-227 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-227. Annual report

 The Department of Human Services shall make an annual report of its activities and operations under §§ 20-10-213 — 20-10-228 to the Governor and shall make such information available to the General Assembly as may be requested.
AR Code § 20-10-228 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-228. Information received by Department of Human Services confidential

 (a) Except in a proceeding involving the question of licensing or revocation of a license or as permitted in § 20-10-210(b), information received by the Department of Human Services, through inspection or otherwise, authorized under §§ 20-10-213 — 20-10-228, shall not be disclosed publicly in such a manner as to identify long-term care facility residents, their families, or persons filing complaints.  (b)  (1) However, in the case of a specific written request by the deputy director of the appropriate division as determined by the Director of the Department of Human Services for information concerning a certain long-term care facility, information obtained during recent inspections of the facility may be supplied in writing to the deputy director.  (2) This exception applies only to facilities providing care for recipients of public welfare and is not to be construed as permitting the exchange of such information on all homes in the state but is specifically limited to those for which the appropriate division as determined by the Director of the Department of Human Services has specific complaints.  (3) These complaints shall be forwarded to the department along with the request for information from the deputy director.  (4) Information received by the deputy director in the manner prescribed in this subsection shall not be disclosed.
AR Code § 20-10-229 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-229. Annual disclosure statement — Requirement

 (a) Any person, corporation, partnership, or facility seeking a license or renewal to provide long-term care in this state shall furnish a current annual disclosure statement to all residents upon request or to all prospective residents upon request.  (b) The statement shall be filed along with the annual application for licensure by March 1 of each year.  (c) The statement shall be on forms and in a format as prescribed by the Department of Human Services and shall include the following information:  (1) The name and business address of the facility and a statement as to whether the facility is a partnership, corporation, or other type of legal entity;  (2) The names and business addresses of the officers, directors, trustees, managing or general partners, or any persons having a five percent (5%) or greater equity or beneficial interest in or of the facility and a description of each person's interest in or occupation with the facility;  (3) A statement as to whether the facility, or any of its officers, directors, trustees, partners, or administrators, before the date of application:  (A) Has ever been convicted of Medicare or Medicaid fraud or felony;  (B) Has ever been convicted of fraud, embezzlement, fraudulent conversion, or misappropriation of property; or  (C) Has had final administrative judgment on any Class A or Class B violations within the last two (2) years;    (4) The location and description of the physical property or property of the facility;  (5) The disclosure statement shall clearly state which services are included in basic care contracts for long-term care and which services are available at or by the facility at extra charge; and  (6) A copy of the contract used by the facility.
AR Code § 20-10-230 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-230. Annual disclosure statement — Filing

 Each facility shall file the completed annual disclosure statement along with its annual license application by March 1 of each year and file a copy of the disclosure statement with the Department of Human Services county office in the county in which the facility is located.
AR Code § 20-10-231 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-231. Annual disclosure statement — Violations

 The failure to provide to any resident a copy of the disclosure statement upon request or to a prospective resident upon request or the failure of any facility to disclose the required information in a timely manner or the failure to file the disclosure statement as required shall be grounds for a Class C violation, pursuant to § 20-10-205.
AR Code § 20-10-232 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 2 - Office of Long-Term Care|§ 20-10-232. Rules, client rights, and sanctions

 (a) The Office of Long-Term Care shall promulgate and maintain pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., separate rules, client rights, and sanctions for intermediate care facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities operations and for other long-term care facilities regulated by the office.  (b) Rules which cover all facilities regulated by the office shall be included in each separate set of rules. Changes and updates to each set of rules shall specify which type of rules are being updated or changed.
AR Code § 20-10-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-401. Penalty

 (a) Any person, partnership, association, or corporation establishing, conducting, managing, or operating any long-term care facility without first obtaining a license as provided by law shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine imposed pursuant to a Class A misdemeanor.  (b) Each day that a long-term care facility shall operate after a first conviction shall be considered a Class D felony and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine imposed pursuant to a Class D felony.
AR Code § 20-10-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-402. License required

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to act or serve in the capacity of nursing home administrator in this state unless the person has been licensed to do so as authorized in this subchapter.  (b) A person who serves as an administrator of a long-term care facility conducted exclusively for persons who rely upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed or tenets of a church or religious denomination shall be exempt from subsection (a) of this section and § 20-10-101(1)-(6), § 20-10-203(b), § 20-10-212, §§ 20-10-301 — 20-10-303 [repealed], § 20-10-403, § 20-10-405(b), § 20-10-406, and § 20-10-407.
AR Code § 20-10-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-403. Qualifications

 (a) The Office of Long-Term Care is vested with the authority and duty to prescribe minimum qualifications for long-term care facility administrators and license persons as long-term care facility administrators who make application for licensure and meet the minimum qualifications as prescribed in this section and by rule of the office.  (b) No license shall be issued to a person as a long-term care facility administrator unless:  (1) He or she is at least twenty-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, and of sound physical and mental health;  (2) He or she has:  (A) Satisfactorily completed a course of instruction and training prescribed by the office. The course shall be so designed as to content and administered so as to present sufficient knowledge of the needs properly to be served by long-term care facilities, laws governing the operation of long-term care facilities and the protection of the interests of patients therein, and the elements of good long-term care facility administration;  (B) Presented evidence satisfactory to the office of sufficient education, training, or experience in the foregoing field to administer, supervise, and manage a long-term care facility; or  (C) Participated for one (1) year in an administrator-in-training program approved by the office; and    (3) He or she has passed an examination administered by the office and designed to test for competence in the subject matter referred to in subdivision (b)(2) of this section.
AR Code § 20-10-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-404. Application and fees

 (a) Any person desiring to be licensed as a nursing home administrator shall make application to the Office of Long-Term Care on forms prescribed by the office and shall furnish such information with the application as shall be required by the office.  (b) An applicant shall complete the licensure process within one and one-half (1½) years from the date of application approval for licensure.  (c) Each application shall be accompanied by a licensure fee of one hundred dollars ($100), one half (½) of which shall be refunded to the applicant if he or she is refused licensure by the office.  (d) This section and §§ 20-10-405 and 20-10-408 only apply to nursing home administrators and are not intended to require administrators in other kinds of long-term care facilities unless provided by rule.
AR Code § 20-10-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-405. Renewal

 (a) Every active nursing home administrator's license shall be renewed on or before July 1 of each year by paying a fee of one hundred dollars ($100) to the Office of Long-Term Care and by furnishing written documentation that the licensee has attended and accumulated a specific number of continuing education clock hours as established by the office.  (b) The fee for those nursing home administrators not actively employed by a nursing home facility as an administrator shall be fifty dollars ($50.00), payable on or before July 1 of each year.  (c) If the annual licensure fee in full along with the renewal application and satisfactory documentation of compliance with continuing education requirements is not postmarked or received by the office on or before July 1, the licensee shall be ineligible to perform the duties of nursing home administrator, and the license shall be deemed suspended effective July 2.  (d) No request for renewal postmarked or received by the office after July 1 shall be considered unless, in addition to other requirements imposed by law or rule, the licensee tenders a late charge in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00).  (e) Any license not renewed on or before September 1 shall expire effective September 2.
AR Code § 20-10-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-406. Reciprocity

 (a) The Office of Long-Term Care may by rule establish terms and conditions for reciprocity licensure of individuals currently licensed in good standing as long-term care facility administrators in other states.  (b) At their option, applicants qualifying for reciprocity licensure may be granted a nonrenewable temporary license not to exceed one hundred twenty (120) days upon condition of payment of a fifty-dollar temporary license fee and upon meeting the terms and conditions established by the office for the temporary license.
AR Code § 20-10-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-407. Denial, revocation, or suspension

 (a) The Office of Long-Term Care may refuse to issue or renew a long-term care facility administrator's license or may revoke or suspend the license of a long-term care facility administrator if the office finds that the applicant or licensee does not qualify for licensure or has violated § 20-10-101(1)-(6), § 20-10-203(b), § 20-10-212, §§ 20-10-301 — 20-10-303 [repealed], § 20-10-402, § 20-10-403, § 20-10-405(b), § 20-10-406, and this section or rules of the office relating to the proper administration and management of a long-term care facility.  (b) Any denial of the issuance or renewal of a long-term care facility license or a long-term care facility administrator's license or the revocation or suspension of the license shall be after notice and hearing before an impartial hearing officer as provided in § 20-10-208 and shall be subject to judicial review as provided in § 20-10-212.
AR Code § 20-10-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 4 - Licensing of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators|§ 20-10-408. Disposition of funds

 (a) All funds derived from fees collected pursuant to this subchapter are special revenues and shall be deposited into the State Treasury, there to be credited to the Nursing Home Personnel Training Fund to be utilized by the Office of Long-Term Care for development and implementation of training programs as may be prescribed by the office.  (b) Subject to rules as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the disbursing officer for the Department of Human Services may transfer all unexpended funds relative to the licensure of nursing home administrators that pertain to fees collected, as certified by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, to be carried forward and made available for expenditures for the same purpose for any following fiscal year.
AR Code § 20-10-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-501. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Committees” means the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor or appropriate subcommittees thereof to whom the state agencies in the long-term care network will report the progress of this effort;  (2) “Long-term care and related community-based services” means preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and maintenance services available in the home and a variety of protected environments, including institutions, provided to persons, regardless of age, whose capabilities have been impaired by physical, mental, or emotional disability; and  (3) “State agencies” means the Department of Human Services and any other state agency which administers funds for long-term care and related community-based services.
AR Code § 20-10-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-502. Coordination of state and nonstate agencies

 (a) The state agencies which administer funds for long-term care shall work together to achieve a coordinated and accessible network of long-term care and related community-based services, utilizing an orderly and effective interagency referral system.  (b) The state agencies shall develop procedures and guidelines to assure that coordination between state agencies in the long-term care network will take place.  (c) Nonstate agencies shall be encouraged to participate in the long-term care network.  (d) Any nonstate agency which receives state funds related to long-term care services shall be required to abide by the policies and procedures of the long-term care network.
AR Code § 20-10-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-503. Interagency agreements

 The state agencies shall work out formalized agreements among themselves that will set forth all the elements of this plan.
AR Code § 20-10-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-504. Public information campaign

 The state agencies shall carry out a public information campaign to inform the citizens of Arkansas about this network of services.
AR Code § 20-10-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-505. Demonstration projects for assessment agencies

 (a) State agencies shall establish a demonstration project in a limited number of counties in order to develop a comprehensive long-term care assessment system.  (b) This project shall develop the role of assessment agencies for the long-term care network.  (c) These assessment agencies shall not be engaged in the provision of services but shall perform an assessment function to measure the client's total needs in order to refer the client to the appropriate level of care available.
AR Code § 20-10-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-506. Reports

 (a) The state agencies shall collect and report management and caseload information to the appropriate legislative committees on a quarterly basis.  (b) Each agency shall identify to the committees all agency funds and personnel involved in the delivery of long-term care and related community-based services.
AR Code § 20-10-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-507. Training program for home health aide providers

 The state agencies shall develop a plan for training home health aide providers.
AR Code § 20-10-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 5 - Long-Term Care Network|§ 20-10-508. Interagency transfers of funds

 (a) The Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, and any other state agency which administers funds and appropriations for long-term care and related community-based services may transfer funds and appropriations among themselves in such amounts as they deem necessary to carry out the intent of this subchapter.  (b) The transfers are to be made upon the request of the state agency, but only after having sought and received the advice of the committees, by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State.
AR Code § 20-10-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 6 - Long-Term Care Ombudsman Act|§ 20-10-601. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Long-Term Care Ombudsman Act”.
AR Code § 20-10-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 6 - Long-Term Care Ombudsman Act|§ 20-10-602. Ombudsman program

 The Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services shall establish and administer an ombudsman program in accordance with the Older Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., as amended, and all applicable federal and state laws, including the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
AR Code § 20-10-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 6 - Long-Term Care Ombudsman Act|§ 20-10-603. Access to patients

 No ombudsman shall be denied access to any patient or resident in a long-term care facility during any period of operation of the facility.
AR Code § 20-10-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10 - Long-Term Care Facilities and Services|Subchapter 7 - Long-Term Care Aide Training Act|§ 20-10-701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Long-Term Care Aide Training Act”.