Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-15.61 – Adult residential care homes expanded admissions

(a) Adult residential care homes may admit an individual who has been living immediately prior to admission in the individual’s own home, a hospital, or other care setting, and who has been either:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-15.61

Adult residential care home: means any facility providing twenty-four-hour living accommodations, for a fee, to adults unrelated to the family, who require at least minimal assistance in the activities of daily living, personal care services, protection, and health care services, but who do not need the professional health services provided in an intermediate, skilled nursing, or acute care facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-15.1

(1) Admitted to a medicaid waiver program and determined by the department of human services to require nursing facility level care to manage the individual’s physical, mental, and social functions; or

(2) A private-paying individual certified by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse as needing a nursing facility level of care.

(b) The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to expand admissions to adult residential care homes by level of care and to define and standardize these levels of care. The rules and standards shall provide for appropriate and adequate requirements for knowledge and training of adult residential care home operators and their employees.

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