(a) The personal rights form made available by the department‘s Community Care Licensing Division to residential care facilities for the elderly shall include a statement regarding procedures for reporting known or suspected elder and dependent adult abuse, including the toll-free telephone number of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman’s CRISISline and a blank space for the telephone number of the nearest approved organization for long-term care ombudsperson activities. A residential care facility for the elderly shall insert in the form’s blank space the telephone number of the nearest approved organization for long-term care ombudsperson activities.

(b) The department’s Community Care Licensing Division shall adopt or amend any regulation and revise any document or policy as necessary to implement this section.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1569.889

  • Department: means the State Department of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Residential care facility for the elderly: means a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by persons 60 years of age or over, or their authorized representative, where varying levels and intensities of care and supervision, protective supervision, or personal care are provided, based upon their varying needs, as determined in order to be admitted and to remain in the facility. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23

(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 456, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2006.)

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