Virginia Administrative Code
Title 22 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Agency 40 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 745 - ASSESSMENT IN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
Part II - Assessment Services
Section 22VAC40-745-40 - Discharge

A. Discharge is the process that ends the stay in an assisted living facility. Staff of the assisted living facility must plan for post-discharge services when the public pay resident is returned to a home-based placement, a nursing facility, or other placement. Assisted living facility staff shall notify in writing the local department of social services financial eligibility worker in the jurisdiction responsible for authorizing the auxiliary grant and the public human services agency assessor of the date and place of discharge as well as when a resident dies. The assisted living facility must make these notifications 14 days prior to the resident's planned discharge or within five days after the death of the resident. In the event of an emergency discharge as defined by 22VAC40-71-160, the notification shall be made as rapidly as possible, but must be made by close of business on the day following the emergency discharge.

B. Upon issuing a notice of summary order of suspension to an assisted living facility, the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services or his designee shall contact the appropriate local department of social services to develop a relocation plan. The residents of an assisted living facility whose license has been summarily suspended pursuant to § 63.2-1709 of the Code of Virginia shall be relocated as soon as possible to reduce the risk of jeopardizing the health, safety, and welfare of residents. An assessment of the relocated resident is not required, pursuant to 22VAC40-745-30 C 3.