Section 7.12.640. Administration.

	(a)  Each facility, with the exception of birth centers, intermediate care facilities for individuals with an intellectual disability or related condition, home health agencies, hospice agencies that do not provide inpatient care on agency premises, and ambulatory surgical facilities must comply with the provisions of this section.  
	(b)  A facility must have an administrator, who is directly responsible to the governing body. The administrator shall  
		(1) coordinate staff services;  
		(2) provide liaison between the governing body and facility staff;  
		(3) report to the governing body regularly and at least annually on facility operations;  
		(4) provide written notice to medical staff of initial and annual or, if approved by the governing body, biennial appointments;  
		(5) evaluate for implementation recommendations of the facility's committees and consultants;  
		(6) ensure that the facility complies with program standards; and  
		(7) delineate responsibility and accountability of each service component of the facility to the administration.  
	(c)  Each facility must have an institutional budget plan which includes an annual operating budget and a capital expenditure plan for a projected three-year period. A committee comprised of representatives of the governing body and administrative staff shall prepare the plan.  

Authorities

18.05.040;47.32.010;47.32.030;44.62.125

Notes

Authority

AS 18.05.040 AS 47.32.010 AS 47.32.030 Editor's note: As of Register 207 (October 2013), and acting under AS 44.62.125(b)(6) and sec. 29, ch. 42, SLA 2013, the regulations attorney made a technical change to 7 AAC 12.640(a), to change "intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded" to "intermediate care facilities for individuals with an intellectual disability or related condition." Chapter 42, SLA 2013 amended terminology in the Alaska Statutes to replace references to "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" with more current terms. Section 29, ch. 42, SLA 2013 instructed that similar changes be made in the Alaska Administrative Code.

History

Eff. 11/19/83, Register 88; am 5/4/97, Register 142; am 5/24/2007, Register 182

References

7.12.640