1. The purpose of this chapter is to promote and encourage adequate and safe care for adults with functional impairments.
2. It is the intent of the general assembly that the department of elder affairs establish policy for adult day services programs and that the department of inspections and appeals enforce this chapter.
3. The department shall establish, by rule in accordance with chapter 17A, a program for certification and monitoring of and complaint investigations related to adult day services programs. The department, in establishing standards for adult day services programs, may adopt by rule in accordance with chapter 17A, nationally recognized standards for adult day services programs. The rules shall include specification of recognized accrediting entities. The rules and standards adopted shall be formulated in consultation with the department of inspections and appeals and affected industry, professional, and consumer groups and shall be designed to accomplish the purpose of this chapter.
4. In addition to the adoption of standards and rules for adult day services programs, the department in consultation with the department of inspections and appeals and affected industry, professional, and consumer groups, shall issue interpretive guidelines, including the expectations of program certification monitors, to provide direction to adult day services programs in complying with certification requirements.
5. The department may establish by administrative rule special classifications for adult day services providers. The department of inspections and appeals shall issue separate certificates for each special classification for which a provider is certified.
2003 Acts, ch 165, §2
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