- (a) Supportive living services are individually tailored habilitative services and activities to enable a beneficiary to reside successfully in their own home, with family, or in an alternative living setting.
(b)
- (1) Supportive living services must be provided in an integrated community setting.
- (2) Supportive living services must directly relate to goals and objectives in the beneficiary’s nonclinical treatment plan.
- (3) Providers must ensure that a sufficient number of direct care staff are scheduled during the performance of supportive living services to guarantee the health, safety, and welfare of each beneficiary.
- (4) Providers must have backup plans in place to address contingencies if direct care staff are unable, fail, or refuse to provide scheduled supportive living services.
(c) A provider of supportive living services must maintain the following documentation in the beneficiary’s service record for each day the beneficiary receives supportive living services:
- (1) The name and sign-in/sign-out times for each direct care staff member providing supportive living services;
- (2) The specific supportive living activities performed;
- (3) The name or names of the direct care staff providing each supportive living activity;
- (4) The relationship of the activities to the goals and objectives described in the beneficiary’s nonclinical treatment plan; and
- (5) Daily progress notes/narrative signed and dated by one (1) of the direct care staff performing the services and activities, describing the beneficiary’s progress or lack thereof with respect to each of their individualized goals and objectives.