Utah Admin. Code R539-11-4 - Duties
(1) The committee shall operate in a manner
that ensures information, work product, and activity are accessible to each
member.
(2) The committee shall
identify any barrier to HCBS for a resident or an individual at risk of
residing in an intermediate care facility.
(3) The committee shall recommend policy and
practice to further reduce the intermediate care facility population.
(a) A recommendation may include a change to
legislative or administrative policy and practice.
(b) The committee shall address each of the
following:
(i) strategy to further reduce the
number of licensed intermediate care facilities;
(ii) strategy to further reduce the number of
licensed intermediate care facility beds;
(iii) strategy to further reduce the number
of large and medium size intermediate care facilities;
(iv) strategy to shift to greater reliance on
small intermediate care facilities;
(v) strategy to ensure the competency of
intermediate care facility staff and appropriate staffing ratio;
(vi) strategy to increase funding and any
other available resource for HCBS; and
(vii) strategy to remove a barrier to
HCBS.
(c) The committee
may address any other topic that further reduces the intermediate care facility
population.
(d) The committee may
consider data and information that includes:
(i) data and information developed as a
result of the Settlement Agreement;
(ii) information about economic development;
and
(iii) information about a
disability population that resides in any other institutional
setting.
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