| R 281 |
| 2016 -- S 3048 AS AMENDED Enacted 06/07/2016 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REVIEW THE STRUCTURAL, PROGRAMMATIC AND POLICY CHANGES NEEDED TO BEST ADDRESS THE LICENSURE, REGULATION, AND OVERSIGHT OF STATE-OPERATED GROUP HOMES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL/DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND ENSURE THAT ALL RESIDENTS OF SAID GROUP HOMES HAVE UP TO DATE INDIVIDUAL SERVICE PLANS |
| Introduced By: Senators DiPalma, Goldin, Miller, Coyne, and Satchell |
| Date Introduced: May 26, 2016 |
| WHEREAS, The Executive Office of Health and Human Services aims to ensure access |
| to high quality and cost effective services that foster the health, safety, and independence of all |
| Rhode Islanders; and |
| WHEREAS, The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and |
| Hospitals is responsible for planning, providing and administering a community system of |
| services and supports for adults with developmental disabilities; and |
| WHEREAS, The State of Rhode Island provides community day and residential services |
| to approximately two hundred individuals through the state-operated Rhode Island Community |
| Living and Supports (RICLAS), which includes group home arrangements; and |
| WHEREAS, RICLAS is licensed and receives oversight by the Office of Facilities and |
| Program Standards and Licensure, within the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, |
| Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals; and |
| WHEREAS, State-run group homes are run by the same department that provides the |
| licensure and regulatory oversight of their quality and operation; and |
| WHEREAS, Independent and unbiased oversight can ensure that high quality standards |
| are set and maintained and may highlight any shortcomings in internal regulations; now therefore |
| be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
| hereby respectfully requests that the Executive Office of Health and Human Services review the |
| structural, programmatic and policy change needed to best address the licensure, regulation, and |
| oversight of state-operated group homes for individuals with intellectual and developmental |
| disabilities and ensure that all residents of said group homes have up to date integrated individual |
| service plans; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate hereby respectfully requests that a report be provided to |
| the Senate President and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on or before January |
| 4, 2017; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Executive Office of Health and Human |
| Services and the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. |
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