Adult Residential Facilities

How are the Regional Center funded programs doing in the face of this year's budget crisis? We hear that one regional center will not vendor new homes unless they commit to providing transportation to day programs. That service was generally funded under another vendor code when gasoline was $2.00 a gallon. Now that we're over $4.25 in most places, it seems to be pushing vendors over the edge. It's not like there was much of a profit to begin with. Who is meeting with legislators? Who has a better way to spend that gets more money closer to the client/consumer/individual/person?

Medication Training for RCFEs

It seems as if most communities and board and care homes have figured out the training requirement, but we keep getting calls from homes where licensing is citing for reasons not clear in the legislation. What does a new facility do to assist with medication with a new residents, if the administrator does not have a person to shadow on the day of admission?

How are you destroying medication? We've had some interesting stories in our classes about how medication is getting destroyed.