Section 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.Utah Admin. Code R539-11-4
Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2021-21, effective 10/22/2021