Current through August 30, 2024
(a) In addition to the notice of changes
required by
AS
47.32.200, a facility shall report the
following planned changes to the licensing representative as soon as possible,
but not later than 30 days before they are expected to occur:
(1) change in the individual operating the
facility;
(2) change in the name of
the individual operating the facility;
(3) change in the name of the
facility;
(4) change of
administrator;
(5) change in the
age or sex of the children served;
(6) deletion or addition of a specialization
under
7 AAC 50.600 -
7 AAC 50.650;
(7) addition of an adult member to the
licensee's household for 45 days or longer.
(b) A facility shall immediately report the
following occurrences in the facility to the licensing representative:
(1) death of a child while in care;
(2) except for situations described in (c) of
this section, serious injury or illness of a child while in care;
(3) fire or other disaster affecting the
facility;
(4) an unplanned change
in an item listed in (a) of this section;
(5) repealed 7/1/2022.
(c) If approved in advance by the department,
a facility regularly serving medically fragile children does not need to make
the report required by (b)(2) of this section.
(d) A full time care facility shall
immediately report the following incidents involving a child in care to the
child's placing worker:
(1) death of a child
in care;
(2) attempted or
threatened suicide by a child in care;
(3) life-threatening illness or
hospitalization of a child in care, unless the child is a medically-fragile
child;
(4) unapproved absence for
more than 10 hours by a child in care;
(5) the direct admission of a runaway child
to a shelter home or to a residential child care facility with a specialization
in serving runaway children.
(e) A full time care facility shall report
the following to the child's placing worker no later than the first working day
that it is known:
(1) pregnancy of a child in
care;
(2) severe distress
depression suicidal threats, homicidal threats, or suicidal or homicidal
ideation of a child in care;
(3)
nonemergency medical care requiring consent from the child's parent for the
needed procedure, treatment, or prescription, even if there is not time to
receive parental permission or parental rights have been terminated; in this
paragraph "nonemergency medical care" includes surgery, anesthesia, and the
administration of psychotropic medication, or another drug prescribed for
mental illness or behavioral problems;
(4) violation of a condition of probation by
a child in care, if applicable;
(5)
allegations of criminal conduct by a child in care.
(f) If a child in a full time care facility
has no placing worker, the facility shall give the reports required in (d) and
(e) of this section to the department.
Authority:AS
44.29.020
AS
47.10.142
AS
47.32.030
