Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part IX - Developmental Disabilities Services › Chapter 1 - Adult Day Services › Section IX-101 - General Provisions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				Definitions. For the purposes of this Chapter:
Contracted Vocational and Habilitative
				  Services
-those services which are purchased by the Office for Citizens
				  with Developmental Disabilities through contractual arrangements with private
				  providers. The services include, but are not limited to, supported employment
				  and other vocational services provided in conjunction with Louisiana
				  Rehabilitation Services (LRS), group models of community-based work,
				  facility-based work and habilitative services as they relate to the acquisition
				  of vocationally-related skills, community-based skills, daily life skills and
				  behavior management.
Corrective Action Plan
-a set of plans
				  developed by a provider of vocational and habilitative services in response to
				  findings of noncompliance with minimum standards. The plans indicate how the
				  provider will come into compliance with minimum standards, the staff
				  responsible for implementing such plans and the time by which the corrective
				  actions will be in place.
Minimum Standards
-those standards contained
				  in this Chapter which are identified by the acronym "MS" and which define
				  minimally acceptable standards of care for private providers of contracted
				  vocational and habilitative services.
Monitor/Monitoring Team
-staff employed by
				  the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities who are assigned to
				  evaluate the practices of providers of contracted vocational and habilitative
				  services.
Quality Indicators
-those standards
				  contained in this Chapter which are identified by the acronym "QI" and which
				  reflect best practices in the area of vocational and habilitative services.
				  When a contracted provider adopts the practices demanded by these standards,
				  the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities recognizes such a
				  provider for excellence in programming.
B. Introduction
1. The present standards were developed by a
				committee composed of a parent representative, provider agencies, and employees
				of the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD). Prior to
				publication they were distributed for statewide input from provider agencies,
				OCDD employees, and legally-established OCDD State and Regional Advisory
				Committees.
2. The purpose of these
				standards is to establish and maintain high quality, individualized, vocational
				and habilitative services for persons with developmental disabilities and to
				offer these individuals choice in the types of services and supports to be
				rendered.
a. In order to insure the
				development of an instrument that addressed quality, the committee developed a
				set of principles on which the standards were to be based and measured
				against.
b. In addition, the
				structure of the standards and the procedures for monitoring them have been
				designed to recognize excellence in program practices, to provide direction for
				growth and a basis for the provision of technical assistance and training. Both
				minimum standards and quality indicators are included in the standards
				document. Agencies pursuing excellence will seek to achieve success on some or
				all of the quality indicators. The OCDD in turn will recognize such achievement
				by awarding a higher class certification.