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may require. Provided, however, records created by, or for the exclusive
use of, the quality assessment unit shall not be subject to release to the
Department or its agents, or the Office of Long Term Care or its agents.
Records created pursuant to Section 702.2.1(1) of these regulations
regarding consultant pharmacists shall not be subject to release to the
Department. Records created pursuant to Section 702.2.1(2) of these
regulations regarding consultant pharmacists shall be subject to release to
the Department.
e. Facilities must provide a written acceptable plan of correction within 15
working days of receipt of written notification of deficiencies (also
referred to as a Statement of Deficiencies) found during routine
inspections or surveys, special visits or complaint investigations. The
OLTC shall determine whether the proposed plan of correction, including
any proposed dates by which correction will be made, is acceptable.
f. The facility must post the Statement of Deficiencies and the facility’s
response and the outcome of the response from the latest survey in a
public area utilized by residents or their responsible parties and visitors. A
copy shall be provided to each resident or resident’s responsible party
upon request of the resident or the resident’s responsible party. The last
twelve (12) months of deficiency notices and facility responses and
outcomes of responses, for all surveys shall be provided to persons or their
responsible parties upon request when they apply for residence in the
facility.
1002 GENERAL PROVISIONS
a. The provisions of this section are supplemental to, and independent of, the
provisions of Title 20 of the Arkansas Code Annotated.
b. Purpose of remedies. The purpose of remedies is to ensure prompt
compliance with program requirements.
c. Basis for imposition and duration of remedies. When OLTC chooses to
apply one or more remedies specified herein, the remedies are applied on
the basis of noncompliance found during surveys or inspections of any
nature conducted by OLTC, or for failure to comply with applicable laws
or regulations.
d. Number of remedies. OLTC may apply one or more remedies for each
deficiency constituting noncompliance or for all deficiencies constituting
noncompliance.
e. Plan of correction requirement.
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