Environmental
To maintain safety and accessibility year-round, these exterior areas must be kept in good repair and clear in all seasons.
What are walkways, driveways, and ramps?
To support health and well-being, the home must consistently maintain this condition related to food availability.
What is ensuring there is always an adequate supply of nutritional foods available?
This training that is taken annually ensures that staff are properly trained in the implementation of a restraint.
What is Safety Care?
Completed annually in eHana, this assessment helps ensure individuals are supported to explore, define, and express their needs related to intimacy and companionship.
What is completing the C12 assessment annually in eHana for each individual?
To meet medication administration requirements, medications may only be given by staff who meet this qualification.
What is medications being administered by licensed professional staff or by MAP-certified staff?
For fire and life-safety compliance, this outdoor equipment requirement specifies distance from the home or wooden decks and includes proper maintenance expectations.
What is ensuring the propane gas tank for an outdoor grill is located at least 10 feet away from the exterior of the home or wood decks and is properly maintained?
To prevent fire hazards, this condition must be maintained around heating equipment in the home.
What is ensuring there is no rubbish or combustible materials stored near heating equipment?
To ensure rights oversight and compliance, every home must designate these roles, whose certificates are obtained by attending this type of training.
What are at least one Human Rights Officer and one Fire Safety Officer?
To promote growth, independence, and community participation, staff are responsible for providing this type of support to individuals.
What is supporting individuals to develop skills that maximize independence and participation in typical activities and routines?
To meet regulatory requirements for medication administration, every home must maintain this current document.
What is a valid Department of Public Health (DPH) certificate?
To ensure safety and emergency evacuation, this type of bedroom door feature is prohibited when the door provides access to an egress.
What are locks on bedroom doors that provide access to an egress?
During a required fire drill, this evacuation standard and follow-up action apply if the time limit is exceeded.
What is evacuating all people in the home within 2.5 minutes, and if the drill exceeds that time, notifying the AOC and re-running the drill within 24 hours?
To ensure continuity of care and effective support, this required documentation includes relevant daily information, and staff are trained on its contents with documented sign-off that is completed every 6 months.
What is an ISP training sheet?
To promote community inclusion and belonging, individuals are supported to engage in this way within their neighborhood.
What is encouraging individuals to be part of their neighborhood by attending neighborhood events, sending cards, and engaging with neighbors while out in the community?
To comply with MAP Policy 10-2, this medication storage requirement must be followed.
What is storing medications or ointments used externally separately from medications taken internally?
To comply with L5 requirements, this document must be approved by the agency and the DDS Area Office and is updated every two years or when evacuation needs change.
What is an approved Safety Plan signed by the agency and the DDS Area Office?
To prevent contamination and ensure safety, this storage practice is required for potentially dangerous substances in the home.
What is storing potentially dangerous substances separately from food and in accurately labeled containers?
To safely administer medications, this certification must be current for any staff member performing med passes in addition to their MAP certification.
What is a current CPR/FA certification?
To support meaningful engagement and choice, every home must maintain and follow this posted tool that offers opportunities across cultural, social, recreational, and spiritual activities.
What is an activity calendar?
Under medication administration and security requirements, this storage rule applies to Schedule II–V medications.
What is ensuring controlled substances (Schedule II–V) are double locked?
For life-safety compliance, this is the required number of exits that must be available at ground level.
What are two means of egress at grade level?
To reduce fire risk, the agency must ensure this type of material is not stored inside the house.
What are flammable materials, including liquid (such as kerosene or gasoline) or solid forms, stored in the house?
This training, found in Docebo and the training log ensures that staff are trained in properly identifying signs and symptoms of illness.
What is Observation Guidelines and Just Not Right?
To ensure community activities are person-centered, this planning approach is used to align activities with individual preferences and interests.
What is planning activities during weekly house meetings and completing interest inventory assessments with individuals and/or staff?
To meet health monitoring requirements, this medical appointment must occur at least every 15 months for every individual.
What is an annual physical?
For an individual whose bedroom provides access to an egress and therefore cannot have a lock, this required document explains the reason and must be approved by the guardian.
What is a general consent form outlining why there is no lock on the bedroom door, signed by the guardian?
To promote choice, comfort, and individuality, staff are expected to provide this type of support related to living spaces and shared areas.
What is supporting individuals to personalize and decorate their rooms or homes and to personalize common areas according to their tastes and preferences?
These three types of meetings that should occur at minimum once a month assist the agency in ensuring that staff are provided with ongoing supervision, oversight, and staff development.
What are coaching and support sessions, staff meetings, and leadership meetings?
To promote independence and accessibility, individuals must have access to this type of support or accommodation.
What is having assistive technology and/or modifications to maximize independence?
Before each annual physical, staff must prepare this required health documentation.
What are the Annual Medical Review, DDS Health Screening Checklist, and Health Screening Checklist, dining plan, and physician's orders?
To maintain health and sanitation standards, the home must meet this condition regarding pests, cleaning practices, and shift-based documentation.
What is ensuring the environment is free from rodent or insect infestation, disinfection is regularly completed, and documented on the high touch point cleaning checklist?
To ensure safe and immediate evacuation, exit doors must meet this requirement regarding operation.
What is ensuring exit doors are easily operable by hand from the inside without keys?
To ensure safe medication administration, nurses must provide additional training to MAP-certified staff on these specific medications and procedures.
What is additional nurse-led training on Vital Signs, EpiPen use, Diastat, Warfarin, Clozapine, and medications administered via G/J tube?
To ensure individuals have a voice in staffing decisions, this process provides opportunities for feedback both before hire and during ongoing evaluation.
What is the individual conducting and interview before hiring, providing feedback on staff during house meetings, and during staff evaluations?
To comply with L43 requirements, this documentation must be updated within a specific timeframe when changes occur.
What is updating the Healthcare Record within 30 days of a change occurring?