TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 33

IDAHO RESIDENTIAL CARE OR ASSISTED LIVING ACT

39-3307.  Admissions. (1) A residential care or assisted living facility shall not admit or retain any resident requiring a level of services or type of service for which the facility is not licensed or which the facility does not provide or arrange for, or if the facility does not have the staff, appropriate in numbers and with appropriate skills, to provide. Prospective residents will also be informed of options and rights available through other programs, to include medicare benefits where applicable. The department shall provide forms for this.

(2)  The department shall develop rules governing admissions to residential care or assisted living facilities.

History:

[39-3307, added 1990, ch. 116, sec. 2, p. 244; am. 1996, ch. 207, sec. 3, p. 636; am. 2000, ch. 274, sec. 15, p. 814; am. 2005, ch. 280, sec. 9, p. 886.]