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STATE OF WASHINGTON

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES

Aging and Long-Term Support Administration

Home and Community Services Division

PO Box 45600, Olympia, WA 98504-5600

H17-025 – Policy and Procedure

March 29, 2017

|TO: |Home and Community Services (HCS) Division Regional Administrators |

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| |Area Agency on Aging (AAA) Directors |

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|FROM: |Bea Rector, Director, Home and Community Services Division |

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|SUBJECT: |Revisions to Long-Term Care (LTC) Manual Chapter 3 |

|Purpose: |To announce the release of the latest updates to LTC Manual |

| |Chapter 3, Assessment and Care Planning |

|Background: |New policies and procedures needed to implement quickly generally come out through the Management Bulletin |

| |(MB) process and are incorporated into the appropriate LTC Manual Chapter at a later date. IP Overtime policy |

| |is an example of this. |

|What’s new, changed, or |These policies are now included in Chapter 3 of the LTC Manual. The revised Chapter supersedes the MBs listed |

|Clarified |below. There is no change in policy from what was published in the MBs. Revisions include: |

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| |Addition of IP Overtime Appendices-IP Overtime Policies replacing the following MBs: |

| |H16-037 |

| |H16-042 |

| |H16-048 |

| |H16-073 |

| |H16-091 |

|ACTION: |Begin using the revised LTC Manual Chapter 3 Appendix A to find policies and procedures related to IP |

| |Overtime. |

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|ATTACHMENT(S): |Chapter 3, Assessment and Care Planning (CHANGES HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW) |

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|CONTACT(S): |Rachelle Ames, CARE Policy, Case Management & IP Overtime Policy Program Manager |

| |360-725-2353 |

| |Rachelle.ames@dshs. |

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