Under IC 4-22-2-24, notice is hereby given that on October 2, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., at the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, Indiana Government Center South, 402 West Washington Street, Room W064, Indianapolis, Indiana, the Indiana State Board of Health Facility Administrators will hold a public hearing to amend 840 IAC 1 and 840 IAC 2 to implement rule changes based on P.L.54-2007, including establishing criteria for licensure as a residential care facility administrator and to establish separate education, experience, and training requirements for licensure as a residential care facility administrator and comprehensive health care facility administrator.

The intent of P.L.54-2007 was to provide a larger pool of candidates for hire as administrators of residential care facilities. All licensed long-term care facilities are required by law to have a licensed administrator over the facility. Under the prior statute, the Board only issued licenses to health facility administrators who could then operate either a comprehensive care facility or a residential care facility. Residential care facilities found it increasingly difficult to find licensed administrators that would work for a lower salary than what a comprehensive care facility could pay. Under the new statute, residential care facilities may employ an administrator that holds a residential care administrator license, which requires a shorter administrator-in-training program. The proposed rule provides these standards and also clarifies and revises language and removes out-of-date and unnecessary language in the rules. No fees are being increased under the proposed rules. The proposed rule changes will impose costs on small businesses under IC 4-22-2.1-5; however, this change will result in an insignificant fiscal impact on the regulated entities.

Copies of these rules are now on file at the Indiana Government Center South, 402 West Washington Street, Room W072 and Legislative Services Agency, One North Capitol, Suite 325, Indianapolis, Indiana and are open for public inspection.