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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 71 - Welfare
Chapter 5 - Programs and Services for Poor Persons
Part 14 - Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008
§ 71-5-1411. Plan to Expand Cost-Effective Community-Based Residential Alternatives to Institutional Care

Universal Citation:
TN Code § 71-5-1411 (2021)
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  1. The commissioner shall develop and implement a plan to expand cost-effective community-based residential alternatives to institutional care for persons who are elderly or adults with physical disabilities, or both, which may include, but not limited to, the development of multiple levels of assisted-care living facility services, adult family care homes, adult foster care homes, companion care models and other cost-effective residential alternatives to nursing facility care.

  2. The commissioner and the board for licensing health care facilities shall work to develop or modify, or both, licensure requirements for such facilities to support a nursing facility substitute framework for members who want to age in place in residences that offer increasing levels of cost-effective home and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalization as members' needs change.
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