Minnesota Administrative Rules

9570.2600 RESIDENT AND STAFF POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.

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:

A.

establish the care and development of the residents as the primary responsibility of its staff;

B.

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;

C.

ensure that staff members participate in the development of and have access to resident program plans and recommendations; and

D.

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.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 245A.09

History:

13 SR 1448

Published Electronically:

October 11, 2007