ESAAL’s adult home and enriched housing program manuals are specifically tailored to helping providers comply with New York State Department of Health laws and regulations, as well as to implement good practices to enhance resident quality of care and quality of life, and staff competency and satisfaction. In these manuals, ESAAL brings to providers 32 years of experience in the operation of an Adult Care Facility. Each adult home or enriched housing program regulation is included, along with notes about how the regulation has been interpreted and enforced over the years, challenges that the regulation has presented, and good practices to assist providers to address those challenges and to comply with NYS Department of Health requirements. Supporting documentation provided over the years by the Department of Health and the former NYS Department of Social Services is provided. Also, the manuals include a Diskc of sample forms in Microsoft Word® format so that they can be tailored to the individual provider’s operation.

Contents include Notes & Good Practices in the following areas:

• Resident admission/retention criteria;
• Resident funds and valuables;
• Resident rights and protections;
• Resident services, including supervision, personal care, medication assistance, case management and activities;
• Foodservice;
• Personnel, including qualifications, training, minimum staffing and health assessments;
• Records and reports;
• Environmental standards, including architectural, maintenance & housekeeping requirements;
• Licensure and application requirements; and
• Powers of the Department of Health in its regulation and oversight of adult homes and enriched housing programs.

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