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Title 7 . Health and Social Services
Chapter 71 . Assisted Living Homes
Section 140. Availability and accessibility of services

7 AAC 71.140. Availability and accessibility of services

(a) A center must make services available at times and locations which enable service area residents to use services.

(b) A center must

(1) have written procedures indicating how residents will have access to 24-hour mental health emergency services;

(2) provide regular services on evenings and weekends if the need for such services is determined by the local governing board; and

(3) include in its yearly plan provisions for serving those persons who cannot come to the center.

(c) Methods of obtaining services must be made known to other human services agencies and to area residents.

(d) Center services must be listed in the public telephone directory.

(e) If center services are not accessible to physically handicapped individuals, alternative means for these individuals to receive services must be included in the yearly plan.

(f) A center must establish procedures to make services available to clients in the languages of the major subgroups within the service area.

(g) A center may not deny services to any person because of inability to pay.

History: Eff. 9/1/82, Register 83

Authority: AS 47.30.530

AS 47.30.540


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