6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1011-1-5-10
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024
Section 6 CCR 1011-1-5-10 - SOCIAL SERVICES10.1 GENERAL STANDARDS The facility shall identify, plan, care for and meet the identified emotional and social needs of each resident to enhance resident psycho-social health and well-being.
A) Social services staff shall be involved in the pre-admission process, providing input as to appropriateness of placement from a psycho-social perspective, except in emergency admissions. Such involvement may include contact with the prospective resident or resident representative, or interdisciplinary conferences that consider psycho-social issues as well as medical/nursing criteria.B) Social services staff shall provide for individual and group needs, either directly or by referral to community agencies.C) Social services staff shall assist residents and families in coping with the medical and psycho-social aspects of the resident's illness and disability and the stay in the facility.D) Social services staff shall assist residents in planning for discharge by coordinating service delivery with the nursing staff and by assessing availability and facilitating use of financial and social support services in the community.E) When services, such as community mental health services, are available in the community to meet a resident's unique social and emotional needs, social services staff shall provide appropriate referrals to community services.F) Social services staff shall coordinate transfers (other than medical transfers) within and out of the facility and assist residents in adjusting to intra-facility transfers.G) Social services staff shall participate in resident assessment and care planning and shall provide social services to residents. Staff shall review and update the assessment and care plan at least quarterly.H) Social services staff shall record information on social history in the health information record and review it at least annually.I) Social services staff shall record progress notes in the resident's health information record quarterly.J) Social services staff shall participate in developing policies and procedures pertaining to social services in the facility.K) Social services staff shall provide orientation to new residents and their resident representatives (including explanation of residents' rights) and assistance to residents and resident representatives in raising concerns about resident care.10.2 STAFFING The facility shall employ social services staff that is qualified according to the criteria below and sufficient in number to meet the social and emotional needs of the residents.
A) A qualified social work staff member is a person who is either: 1) A social worker with a Bachelor's degree in social work registered or authorized expressly by Colorado law to practice as a social worker who has one year of social work experience under the supervision of a licensed social worker in a health care setting working directly with residents, or2) A social worker with a Master's degree in social work who is licensed as a licensed social worker or licensed clinical social worker under Colorado law, or3) A person with a Master's or Bachelor's Degree in a related human services field who has monthly consultation with a person meeting the qualifications in subsection 2 above. The consultation shall be sufficient in amount to assist the social work staff to meet resident needs.B) Effective June 1, 2016, any facility that has employed a person with a high school degree or GED as social services staff may continue to employ that individual as long as the facility can document consultation as prescribed in section 10.2(A)(3).10.3 FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT The facility shall provide for social services staff suitable space, equipped with a telephone, for confidential interviews with residents and their resident representatives. The space shall provide visual and auditory privacy and locked storage for confidential records and be accessible to non-ambulatory persons.