New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 37A - LICENSED COMMUNITY RESIDENCES FOR ADULTS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES
Subchapter 10 - QUALITY ASSURANCE
Section 10:37A-10.1 - Quality assurance
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 10:37A-10.1
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The PA shall develop and implement written policies and procedures for an ongoing quality assurance (QA) program that meet the QA requirements for community agencies as articulated in N.J.A.C. 10:37-9. In addition, the PA shall ensure, through its quality assurance program, that supervised residences meet the program and facility requirements for licensure as specified in this chapter and that shared supportive housing residences meet the facility requirements for licensure as specified in this chapter.
(b) Areas to be monitored and evaluated include the following:
1. Therapeutic
environment and life safety monitoring shall include at least quarterly
documentation of safety inspections (including testing of smoke detectors) to
assure the health, safety, and welfare of consumers in supervised residences
and annual documentation of these inspections in shared supportive housing
residences;
2. Adequacy of planning
for more independent living and reduction of service intensity.
i. Barriers to discharge/transfer to a less
restrictive living environment shall be reviewed annually for all consumers
living in supervised residences.
ii. These review findings shall be forwarded
to the agency quality assurance oversight (or utilization review) committee for
review and follow-up and should be available at the time of a licensing review;
and
3. Adequacy of
intake and admission review process to ensure vacancies are filled
expeditiously. Vacancy rates and the reasons for those vacancy rates shall also
be monitored.
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