The manner in which staff members provide service and care to the residents is vital to the effectiveness of the facility's program. In this respect, the program's resident-staff policies and procedures shall:
establish the care and development of the residents as the primary responsibility of its staff;
provide for a fair, impartial, and humane governing and management process that protects the interests of the residents singly and as a group while taking into account resident views on those matters affecting them;
ensure that staff members participate in the development of and have access to resident program plans and recommendations; and
seek to create and maintain a warm, personal, supportive environment that is conducive to the well-being of the resident and that promotes maximum independent functioning.
MS s 245A.09
13 SR 1448
October 11, 2007
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes