Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-39-149 - Protection of resident funds and possessions in nursing facilities
The nursing facility shall have written policies and procedures which ensure the security of residents' possessions and residents' funds accepted by the facility for safekeeping.
(a) The facility shall afford each resident
the right to manage the resident's own financial affairs and the facility shall
not require any resident to deposit the resident's personal funds with the
facility.
(b) Upon written
authorization of a resident, the resident's legal representative or power of
attorney or an individual who has been appointed conservator for the resident,
the facility shall hold, safeguard, manage, and account for the personal funds
of the resident deposited with the facility.
(c) The facility shall establish and maintain
a system that assures a full, complete, and separate accounting, according to
generally accepted accounting principles, of each resident's personal funds
entrusted to the facility on the resident's behalf.
(1) The facility shall designate in writing
the person responsible for the accounting system.
(2) A record shall be made each time there is
a disbursement or addition to the resident's personal fund.
(3) The facility shall provide a written
report which includes accounting for all transactions and which states the
current fund balance to the resident or the resident's legal representative at
least quarterly.
(4) The facility
shall deposit any resident's funds in excess of $50 in one or more interest
bearing accounts which are separate from any of the facility's operating
accounts, and which credit all interest when earned on the resident's account
to the personal account of the resident.
(5) All resident funds deposited by the
facility shall be deposited in a Kansas financial institution.
(6) Within 30 days after the death of a
resident with personal funds deposited with the facility, the facility shall
convey the resident's funds and a final accounting of those funds to the
individual or probate jurisdiction administering the resident's estate.
(7) The facility shall purchase a
surety bond to assure the security of all residents' personal funds deposited
with the facility.
(d)
The facility shall have written policies and procedures which ensure the
security of each resident's personal possessions.
(1) A written inventory of the resident's
personal possessions, signed by the resident or the resident's legal
representative shall be completed at the time of admission and updated at least
annually.
(2) If a resident
requests that the facility hold personal possessions within the facility for
safekeeping, the facility shall:
(A) Maintain
a written record; and
(B) give a
receipt to the resident or the resident's legal representative.
Notes
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.