Sec. 47.80.100. Programs for persons with disabilities.
(a) The Department of Health, the Department of Education and Early Development, and other departments of the state as appropriate, shall, in coordination, plan, develop, and implement a comprehensive system of services and facilities for persons with disabilities that is consistent with the state plan adopted under AS 44.29.660(5) and is dispersed geographically within the […]
Sec. 47.80.110. Program principles.
The system of services and facilities required under AS 47.80.100 shall accord with the principles that service providers shall (1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the provider’s service area to obtain services readily; (2) ensure each client’s right to confidentiality and treatment with dignity; (3) establish staffing patterns that […]
Sec. 47.80.120. Habilitation plans.
A state agency, contractor, or grantee who is directly responsible for providing services to persons with disabilities shall develop an individual habilitation plan for each person whose program of services utilizes state funds. The plan shall be completed in writing and furnished to the department within 30 days of admission of a client to the […]
Sec. 47.80.130. Powers and duties of the department.
(a) The department shall (1) develop budgets and receive and distribute appropriations and funds under this section; (2) adopt regulations regarding standards of services and facilities for persons with disabilities and the quality of services and the process by which services are to be delivered; (3) adopt any other regulations necessary to implement this chapter; […]
Sec. 47.80.135. Gainful employment of persons with disabilities.
(a) When carrying out duties under AS 47.80.130 related to the provision of services to a person with a disability, the department’s primary objective and preferred outcome is to help the person become gainfully employed in the general workforce of the public or private sector in an integrated workplace where persons with disabilities work with […]
Sec. 47.80.140. Licensing and certificates of need.
(a) A person may not establish or operate a residential facility until the facility has been licensed under AS 47.32. (b) A certificate of need is required as a prerequisite for the licensing of a residential facility established after July 1, 1978, and not otherwise provided for in AS 18.07.031 – 18.07.111. A certificate shall […]
Sec. 47.80.150. Liability for expense of services.
(a) A person with a disability or the person’s legal representative acting in a representative capacity, the person’s spouse, or the person’s parents if the person is a minor shall pay or contribute to the payment of the charges for the care or treatment in accordance with the fee schedule adopted under AS 44.29.022. The […]
Sec. 47.80.160. Transportation.
When an individual is to be treated under this chapter, the department shall arrange, upon the request of a person having a proper interest in the individual’s treatment, and may pay for the individual’s transportation to the designated facility, with appropriate medical or nursing attendants and by the available means that are appropriate and suitable. […]
Sec. 47.80.170. Provision for personal needs upon discharge.
The department shall make arrangements which are necessary to ensure that (1) no patient is discharged or placed on convalescent status from a designated facility without suitable clothing; and (2) an indigent patient discharged or placed on convalescent status is furnished suitable transportation to the patient’s permanent residence in this state or other suitable place […]