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 SubTitle17a-227-1_17a-227-37. Licensing of Community Living Arrangements, Residential Schools and Habilitative Nursing Facilities

  Sec.17a-227-36. Planning and provision of residential support services  

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  • (a) The contractor shall participate in any orientation or training that is required by the contract to familiarize him with the needs of person(s) named pursuant to the contract and to give him the necessary skills to meet those needs.

    (b) Whenever requested by the region, the contractor or his designee shall be a member of the person's interdisciplinary team and shall assist in the development of the person's overall plan of service or follow-along plan.

    (c) The contractor shall ensure that documentation requirements specified in a person's overall plan of service or follow-along plan are met in a timely and accurate fashion.

    (d) The contractor shall assist the person to obtain any health, psychological, cognitive, social, or other assessment of the person that is specified as the contractor's responsibility in the person's overall plan of service or follow-along plan.

    (e) Regardless of the presence or absence of an overall plan of service or follow-along plan as required by the region, the contractor shall develop a written residential support services plan in collaboration with the person.

    (1) The residential support services plan shall contain measurable service objectives that relate to the kind and amount of assistance needed by the person that will allow him to live in his own home. These objectives shall also relate to goals in the person's overall plan of service or follow-along plan that are essential to assisting the person to live in his own home if the person has such a plan.

    (2) The contractor shall review the plan with the person to be served on a scheduled or as needed basis to ensure the continued relevance and effectiveness of the plan. This review shall occur not less than quarterly during the first year of service and annually thereafter.

    (3) The contractor shall give the DMR case manager or other DMR personnel access to all documents pertaining to the residential support services plan to ensure that it is being implemented and that it continues to meet the needs of the individual.

(Effective August 24, 1994)