Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Social Services
 
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State Board of Social Services
 
chapter
Standards for Licensed Assisted Living Facilities [22 VAC 40 ‑ 72]
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10/6/10  11:23 am
Commenter: tawana bryant / Independent home owner

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 Where are they now? Is one of the most clicked on websites of today? You can scroll down the list of any big time star or player and find out exactly where they are today. That is the question of the hour. Where is the secretary of Health that allowed a pseudo-nursing home to integrate itself into a social sector of society instead of under a medical mode, as a disguise to save cost. Where is the major patron of the senate bill 1183 that stated that residential care facilities will not be a part of the large driven money-making assisted living facilities? And where are the all the board members and nurses that pushed for less stringent rules and regulations and training that would be needed under the Department of health, who are not now consultants and trainers who have benefited and prospered from this bill. And where are the residential care facilities, minorities, otherwise small businesses that are striving to stay afloat, harassed because they want change, and out of business because their purpose was extended through regulations and hardships occurred.
The new law created by SB1183 contradicts our very purpose and what we do and who we are as an industry. We are not long-term care facilities and Virginia Department of Social Services states” Assisted living facilities (ALFs) are non-medical residential settings that provide or coordinate personal and health care services, 24-hour supervision, and assistance for the care of four or more adults who are aged, infirm or disabled. Assisted living facilities are not nursing homes. A nursing home is a facility in which the primary function is the provision, on a continuing basis, of nursing services and health-related services for the treatment and inpatient care of two or more non-related individuals.
Our purpose from the very beginning is to accept the poor, the disabled, and the infirm and only provide room and board, maintenance of care as thou the client was at home. We are unable to profit because of the limit on what we can charge a client and the regulations set by the state that oversteps it scope of purpose that incurs a hardship on small business that accept these individuals the underprivileged and the disenfranchised.
In 2000, we were defined as Adult Care Residence that clearly fit our purpose and we maintained a balance regulation and a growing respect as People began to accept the housing of the intellectual disabled and De-institutionalism began to lose its negative stigma.
At that time, Adult care residence as stated in the code 63-1-175 stated; that no facility licensed exclusively as an adult care residence shall not use in its title the words convalescent, health hospital, nursing, or sanatorium….

So, how did this industry get over into the social setting of the department of social services? By redefining one industry without public participation, without public education, and leaving out the key players such as the small business who had no input in their monopoly game as they took over the Adult Care Residence. We were promised that before the bill took place because we only provided for the young, the independent, and our scope of our purpose was to prompt and encourage our client to live at the highest level of care we would be exempt from Senate Bill 1183 that makes us look like medical facilities to our inspectors, insurances, employees, and society as a whole, our identity have been stolen and we ask that we be given it back, that our regulations fit our range and scope of what we are attended, that we be free from harassment so that we can run our businesses and that someone would step in help implement immediate remedies that will bring relief to these businessesr this text and enter your comments here. You are limited to approximately 3000 words.

 

 

 Where are they now? Is one of the most clicked on websites of today? You can scroll down the list of any big time star or player and find out exactly where they are today. That is the question of the hour. Where is the secretary of Health that allowed a pseudo-nursing home to integrate itself into a social sector of society instead of under a medical mode, as a disguise to save cost. Where is the major patron of the senate bill 1183 that stated that residential care facilities will not be a part of the large driven money-making assisted living facilities? And where are the all the board members and nurses that pushed for less stringent rules and regulations and training that would be needed under the Department of health, who are not now consultants and trainers who have benefited and prospered from this bill. And where are the residential care facilities, minorities, otherwise small businesses that are striving to stay afloat, harassed because they want change, and out of business because their purpose was extended through regulations and hardships occurred.
The new law created by SB1183 contradicts our very purpose and what we do and who we are as an industry. We are not long-term care facilities and Virginia Department of Social Services states” Assisted living facilities (ALFs) are non-medical residential settings that provide or coordinate personal and health care services, 24-hour supervision, and assistance for the care of four or more adults who are aged, infirm or disabled. Assisted living facilities are not nursing homes. A nursing home is a facility in which the primary function is the provision, on a continuing basis, of nursing services and health-related services for the treatment and inpatient care of two or more non-related individuals.
Our purpose from the very beginning is to accept the poor, the disabled, and the infirm and only provide room and board, maintenance of care as thou the client was at home. We are unable to profit because of the limit on what we can charge a client and the regulations set by the state that oversteps it scope of purpose that incurs a hardship on small business that accept these individuals the underprivileged and the disenfranchised.
In 2000, we were defined as Adult Care Residence that clearly fit our purpose and we maintained a balance regulation and a growing respect as People began to accept the housing of the intellectual disabled and De-institutionalism began to lose its negative stigma.
At that time, Adult care residence as stated in the code 63-1-175 stated; that no facility licensed exclusively as an adult care residence shall not use in its title the words convalescent, health hospital, nursing, or sanatorium….

So, how did this industry get over into the social setting of the department of social services? By redefining one industry without public participation, without public education, and leaving out the key players such as the small business who had no input in their monopoly game as they took over the Adult Care Residence. We were promised that before the bill took place because we only provided for the young, the independent, and our scope of our purpose was to prompt and encourage our client to live at the highest level of care we would be exempt from Senate Bill 1183 that makes us look like medical facilities to our inspectors, insurances, employees, and society as a whole, our identity have been stolen and we ask that we be given it back, that our regulations fit our range and scope of what we are attended, that we be free from harassment so that we can run our businesses and that someone would step in help implement immediate remedies that will bring relief to these businesses

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