Section 16.03.22.001 - TITLE, SCOPE, AND RESPONSIBILITIES01.Title. The title of this chapter of rules is IDAPA 16.03.22, "Residential Assisted Living Facilities."02.Scope. The purpose of a residential assisted living facility is to provide choice, dignity, and independence to residents while maintaining a safe, humane, and home-like living arrangement for individuals needing assistance with daily activities and personal care. These rules set standards for providing services that maintain a safe and healthy environment.03.General Provider Responsibilities. The facility must ensure quality services by providing choices, dignity, and independence to residents. The facility must have an administrator and staff who have the knowledge and experience required to provide safe and appropriate services to all residents of the facility. The facility must be operated consistent with the rules and statutes as it conducts its work.04.General Department Responsibilities. The Department is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the provisions of the statute and this chapter to protect residents in these facilities by providing information, education, and evaluating providers to ensure compliance with statute and these rules. This responsibility includes licensing facilities and monitoring the condition of facilities.05.Exemptions. The provisions of these rules do not apply to any of the following:a. The provisions of these rules do not apply to hospitals, nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, or any other health facility as defined by Title 39, Chapter 13, Idaho Code.b. The provisions of these rules do not apply to any house, institution, hotel, congregate housing project, retirement home, or other similar place that is limited to providing one (1) or more of the following: housing, meals, transportation, housekeeping, or recreational and social activities, or that have residents independently accessing supportive services from an entity approved to provide such services in Idaho and holding no legal ownership interest in the entity operating the facility.c. The provisions of these rules do not apply to any arrangement for the receiving and care of persons by a relative, except when the caregiver is paid for the care through a state or federal program, in which case the caregiver's relative and the care setting must meet all applicable requirements.Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.03.22.001