Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part I - General Administration
Subpart 1 - General
Chapter 16 - Admissions Criteria for Inpatient Facilities
Section I-1611 - The Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD)

a. The person must meet the criteria for participation in the Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) Services System in Louisiana's MR/DD law. The person's generic service plan (Plan of Support) must contain a recommendation for admission to an Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded. The plan must also document the team (which includes the individual and/or family) consideration of what meets the individual's needs, and no more, and the most natural living option available, consistent with an individual's community peers.

a. The person has mental retardation or a related condition and has additional complex medical or behavioral needs; and

b. the person's programmatic and supervisory needs as established in the person's Individual Program Plan (IPP) can be met within the resources and staffing available at the developmental center or community home; and

c. the person's age and sex as well as physical, cognitive, social and behavioral development are compatible with the individuals currently residing within the developmental center or community home wherein the vacancy exists; and

d. the admission does not exceed the capacity, the services and/or population for which the facility is licensed.

a. persons who cannot benefit from active treatment services in an Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded (ICF-MR);

b. persons who have a primary diagnosis of mental illness;

c. persons who are dangerous to self or others, or are charged with a crime, and who require the availability of a secure and locked area in order to ensure the safety and well being of other residents and employees of the developmental center or community home.