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OR Rev Stat § 410.525 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.525 - Disclosure of fees; waiver of assessment; additional assessment services.

(1) If the admission assessment is performed by a certified program, the program shall disclose to the person receiving the assessment any portion of the fee that may be charged to that person, and shall inform the person of the right of the person to receive an assessment from the Department of Human Services or an area agency on aging at no charge. (2) The department or area agencies on aging shall not charge any portion of the fee to the person receiving the assessment. (3) Once the person or persons performing the assessment have met the minimum federal criteria, the person receiving the assessment shall have the option to receive additional assessment services and information regarding appropriate placement alternatives. The person shall sign a form to be developed by the department indicating the person’s preference. [1989 c.912 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 410.535 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.535 - Rules.

The Department of Human Services shall adopt rules to carry out the provisions of ORS 410.505 to 410.545, including, but not limited to: (1) Granting exceptions to ORS 410.540; and (2) Insuring confidentiality of all client information gathered during the admission assessment process. [1989 c.912 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 410.540 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.540 - Compliance as condition for licensure.

Compliance with the provisions of ORS 410.505 to 410.545 shall be a condition for licensure as a nursing facility. [1989 c.912 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 410.545 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.545 - Implementation of ORS 410.505 to 410.545 requires federal funding.

Implementation of ORS 410.505 to 410.545 is subject to federal fund participation of the admission assessment activities specified in ORS 410.510 to 410.530. [1989 c.912 §12]
OR Rev Stat § 410.555 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.555 - Submission of changes to Medicaid reimbursement system to council; advisory recommendation; approval; report; budget review; rules.

(1) The Department of Human Services shall submit to the Medicaid Long Term Care Quality and Reimbursement Advisory Council, for the council’s review and recommendation, any proposed change or modification to the Oregon Medicaid reimbursement system for long term care services and community-based care services. (2) Upon review of any proposed change or modification under subsection (1) of this section, the council shall issue a written advisory recommendation to the department. The recommendation shall state whether the council supports or opposes the proposed change or modification and whether the council believes the proposed change or modification will have an adverse or positive effect on the quality of long term care services and community-based care services provided under the Oregon Medicaid program. (3) Prior to implementing any change or modification to the reimbursement system for long term care services and community-based care services, the Department of Human Services shall submit the council’s written recommendation to the Legislative Assembly or to the Emergency Board if the Legislative Assembly is not in session. Before instituting the proposed change or modification, the department shall obtain the approval of the Legislative Assembly or the Emergency Board if the Legislative Assembly is not in session. A proposed change or modification with an estimated fiscal impact of $100,000 or less shall be exempt from the provisions of this subsection. (4) At the beginning of each legislative session, the Medicaid Long Term Care Quality and Reimbursement Advisory Council shall review the Governor’s budget for the Department of Human Services. (5) The Department of Human Services shall adopt such rules as are reasonably necessary for the enforcement of this section. The department shall submit to the council any proposed rule that directly or indirectly affects payment rates prior to proceeding with the notice requirements provided for in ORS 183.335. The department shall consider the comments of the council that pertain to the proposed rule. [1995 c.667 §2; 2016 c.117 §65]
OR Rev Stat § 410.595 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.595 - Legislative intent and findings.

The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that the interest and welfare of the public are served by the Home Care Commission that operates in accordance with section 11, Article XV of the Oregon Constitution, and ORS 410.595 to 410.625 and also are served by operations that: (1) Do not compromise the resources of elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses or the family members of elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses; (2) Do not compromise the ability of elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses or the family members of elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses to choose from among services, activities and purchases, including adult support services; and (3) Do not reduce the amount and scope of the services, activities and purchases, including adult support services, available to elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses or the family members of elderly persons, persons with physical disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses. [2010 c.100 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 410.596 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.596 - Statewide plan to expand access to skilled home care and personal support workforce.

(1) The Home Care Commission shall adopt a statewide plan to: (a) Increase participation in the home care registry maintained by the commission under ORS 410.604; (b) Increase the number of home care workers and personal support workers in this state in order to meet the need that will arise with the implementation of the Fair Labor Standards Act; (c) Continue the commission’s work to create a career ladder for home care workers and personal support workers so that they may become greater skilled and gain certifications from the commission to provide advanced or extensive medical or behavioral health services and support; and (d) Continue in-person home care worker and personal support worker orientation sessions in each geographic region of this state. (2) The plan must include an outreach and marketing strategy to recruit home care workers and personal support workers to provide home care services and support to individuals who require higher levels of services and support. (3) The commission shall contract with a public or private entity with appropriate expertise to recommend the design for the statewide plan described in this section. [2015 c.796 §2; 2018 c.75 §11]
OR Rev Stat § 410.598 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.598 - Training and testing for home care workers and personal support workers; rules.

(1) The Department of Human Services, acting on behalf of and subject to the approval of the Home Care Commission, shall adopt by rule minimum training standards for home care workers and personal support workers and shall establish procedures for testing home care workers and personal support workers on their mastery of the skills and knowledge to be acquired through the training. The training standards must require a minimum number of hours of orientation and assessment of competency before a home care worker or personal support worker is permitted to provide home care services to a client. The minimum number of hours may be greater for home care workers who will be providing enhanced care and services, such as medication management. (2) The department shall provide training on the mandatory training topics established under this subsection and on any other training that the department or the commission deems appropriate for the professionalization of home care workers and personal support workers. The training provided pursuant to this section may include, but is not limited to, training on the following topics: (a) Safety and emergency measures. (b) Understanding the requirements for providers paid with Medicaid funds. (c) Providing person-centered care. (d) Understanding how to support the physical and emotional needs of the individual who is receiving care. (e) Managing medications. (f) Providing personal care and assistance with activities of daily living. (3) The training provided in accordance with this section must be geographically accessible in all areas of this state and culturally appropriate for workers of all language abilities. (4) In developing the training provided under this section, the department shall: (a) Consider the needs of each worker type, including workers who are relatives of the individuals receiving care, workers who provide respite care, experienced workers and new workers; and (b) Strive to align the training with the training requirements for care providers in other long term care settings. (5) The department shall consult with the Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee, unions representing home care workers and personal support workers and other stakeholders in the adoption of rules to carry out the provisions of this section. [2018 c.75 §2; 2019 c.680 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 410.602 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.602 - Home Care Commission; membership; rules.

(1) The Home Care Commission is created, consisting of nine members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate as provided in ORS 171.562 and 171.565. Five members shall be elderly persons or persons with disabilities who are receiving or who have received home care services. One member shall be appointed to represent each of the following entities, or a successor entity, for as long as a comparable entity exists: (a) Governor’s Commission on Senior Services; (b) Department of Human Services; (c) Oregon Disabilities Commission; and (d) Oregon Association of Area Agencies on Aging and Disabilities. (2) The members shall be appointed for terms of three years. A member is eligible for reappointment and may serve no more than three consecutive terms. When making appointments to the commission, the Governor may consider recommendations from the entities listed in subsection (1) of this section and other organizations representing the interests of elderly persons and persons with disabilities. (3) If there is a vacancy for any cause, the Governor shall make an appointment to become immediately effective for the unexpired term. (4) The commission shall exercise all powers necessary to effectuate the purposes of ORS 410.595 to 410.625. (5) The Governor shall select annually from the membership of the commission a chairperson who serves at the pleasure of the Governor. The chairperson or majority of the members of the commission then in office shall have the power to call regular or special meetings of the commission. The commission shall meet at a place, date and hour determined by the commission. (6) Members of the commission shall be paid compensation and expenses as provided in ORS 292.495 from such funds as may be available to the commission. (7) Meetings of the commission shall be open and public in accordance with ORS 192.610 to 192.690. Records of the commission shall be open and available to the public in accordance with ORS 192.311 to 192.478. The commission shall meet regularly with the executive director of the Home Care Commission to make recommendations and set policy, to approve or reject reports of the executive director, to adopt rules and to transact other business. (8) A quorum of the commission shall consist of a majority of the members of the commission then in office. All decisions of the commission shall be made by a majority of all the members then in office. (9) The commission shall, in accordance with ORS chapter 183, adopt and enforce rules to carry out the provisions of ORS 410.595 to 410.625. (10) The commission is not subject to ORS 291.050 to 291.060. (11) Members of the commission are officers of the state and the commission is a state commission for purposes of ORS 30.260 to 30.300 and 278.120 and ORS chapter 180. (12) The chairperson may sign, on behalf of the commission, contracts or agreements that the commission authorizes or is required to execute. [2001 c.901 §2; 2007 c.70 §179; 2007 c.797 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 410.603 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.603 - Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee.

(1) The Home Care Commission shall create a Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee. (2) The committee shall provide information and make recommendations to the commission and to the Department of Human Services on: (a) Methods of improving the quality of services available to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses; (b) Means of ensuring that an adequate amount of services are available to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses; and (c) All the duties and functions under ORS 410.595 to 410.625 as those duties and functions pertain to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses, including but not limited to: (A) Qualifications for personal support workers; (B) Registration of personal support workers; (C) Referrals for routine, emergency and respite care; (D) Training opportunities for personal support workers including, but not limited to, the training described in ORS 410.598; and (E) Collective bargaining. (3) The commission and the department shall consider the recommendations of the committee. When the commission or the department does not follow the recommendations of the committee, the commission or the department shall inform the committee of the reasons for not following the recommendations. (4) The commission shall appoint members to the committee. In appointing members to the committee, the commission shall include at least one: (a) Consumer of services, activities or purchases available to persons with developmental disabilities; (b) Consumer of services, activities or purchases available to persons with mental illnesses; (c) Family member of a person with a developmental disability; (d) Family member of a person with a mental illness; (e) Advocate for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses; (f) Personal support worker; (g) Representative from an agency that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services; and (h) Representative from a support services brokerage that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services. [2010 c.100 §3; 2018 c.75 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 410.606 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.606 - Referral of qualified individuals on home care registry.

(1)(a) The Department of Human Services, an area agency, other public agency or support services brokerage shall provide to an individual seeking a home care worker or a personal support worker names of qualified individuals, in the appropriate geographic area, who have been placed on the home care registry. (b) The Home Care Commission may adopt criteria for referrals in order to ensure the effective delivery of home care services from qualified, committed, experienced and well-trained home care workers and personal support workers and to ensure that, for private pay home care workers, the requirements of ORS 410.605 are met. (2) To facilitate the development and maintenance of the home care registry and any training opportunity offered by the commission, and to meet the requirements of providing workers’ compensation, the department, the Oregon Health Authority, area agencies, other public agencies and support services brokerages shall report to the commission: (a) The name and address of any home care worker or personal support worker: (A) Who provides home care services; (B) Whose compensation is funded in whole or in part with state funds; and (C) Who is not listed on the registry; (b) The name of the program under which the home care worker or personal support worker provides the home care services; (c) Any other data required by the commission for training and registry purposes; and (d) Any other data required for workers’ compensation purposes. (3) If necessary to collect the information required by subsection (2) of this section: (a) The commission shall request the required information from the department, the authority or any agency or support services brokerage that provides or arranges payroll services for home care workers or personal support workers; and (b) The department, authority, agency or support services brokerage shall provide the commission with the requested information. (4) If the commission, with the assistance of the department, determines that the supply of home care workers is inadequate to meet the needs of medical assistance recipients who qualify for home care services, the commission may suspend or reduce the number of referrals of home care workers under the program described in ORS 410.605. [2001 c.901 §4; 2010 c.100 §§4,7,11; 2014 c.116 §7; 2018 c.75 §12]
OR Rev Stat § 410.607 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.607 - Home care and personal support worker classifications and payment rates.

(1) The Home Care Commission shall convene a subcommittee of the commission to define and establish classifications of home care workers and personal support workers. The classifications shall be based on the worker’s training, level of skill and the scope of the services provided by the worker. (2) The commission shall establish payment rates for each classification of home care worker participating in the program described in ORS 410.605. [2014 c.116 §4; 2018 c.75 §13] Note: 410.607 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 410 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 410.608 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.608 - Selection of home care or personal support worker; right to terminate employment; eligibility determination made by Department of Human Services.

(1) An elderly person or a person with a disability who hires a home care worker or personal support worker has the right to select the home care worker or personal support worker, including a family member. (2) An elderly person or a person with a disability who hires a home care worker or personal support worker has the right to terminate the employment of the home care worker or personal support worker at any time and for any reason. (3) The Department of Human Services shall determine the eligibility of an elderly person or a person with a disability to receive home care services under the Medicaid program and state-funded long term care services. [2001 c.901 §5; 2007 c.70 §181; 2018 c.75 §14]
OR Rev Stat § 410.610 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.610

[1981 c.183 §1; 1987 c.428 §27; 1989 c.721 §50; renumbered 124.050 in 1995]
OR Rev Stat § 410.612 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.612 - Collective bargaining.

(1) For purposes of collective bargaining under ORS 243.650 to 243.809, the Home Care Commission is the employer of record for home care workers and personal support workers. (2) Except as provided in ORS 410.614 and 410.619, home care workers and personal support workers may not be considered to be employees of the State of Oregon, an area agency, a support services brokerage or other public agency. (3)(a) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall represent the commission in collective bargaining negotiations with the certified or recognized exclusive representatives of all appropriate bargaining units of home care workers and personal support workers. The department is authorized to agree to terms and conditions of collective bargaining agreements on behalf of the commission and the Department of Human Services. (b) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall report to the legislative review agency, as defined in ORS 291.371, on any new or changed provisions relating to compensation in a collective bargaining agreement negotiated under this section. [2001 c.901 §6; 2014 c.116 §8; 2018 c.75 §15; 2020 s.s.2 c.10 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 410.614 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services|Chapter 410 - Senior and Disability Services|Section 410.614 - Rights of home care and personal support workers.

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 243.650 (19) and (20), the Home Care Commission shall be considered a public employer and home care workers and personal support workers shall be considered public employees governed by ORS 243.650 to 243.809. (2) Home care workers and personal support workers have the right to form, join and participate in the activities of labor organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation and collective bargaining with the commission on matters concerning employment relations. These rights shall be exercised in accordance with the rights granted to public employees with mediation and interest arbitration under ORS 243.742 as the method of concluding the collective bargaining process. (3) Home care workers and personal support workers are not public employees with respect to the Public Employees Retirement System, the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan or the Public Employees’ Benefit Board. (4) Home care workers and personal support workers do not have the right to strike. [2001 c.901 §7; 2014 c.116 §9; 2018 c.75 §16]