135C.25 - RESIDENT ADVOCATE COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS -- DUTIES -- DISCLOSURE -- LIABILITY.
135C.25 RESIDENT ADVOCATE COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS --
DUTIES -- DISCLOSURE -- LIABILITY.
1. Each health care facility shall have a resident advocate
committee whose members shall be appointed by the director of the
department on aging or the director's designee. A person shall not
be appointed a member of a resident advocate committee for a health
care facility unless the person is a resident of the service area
where the facility is located. The resident advocate committee for
any facility caring primarily for persons with mental illness, mental
retardation, or a developmental disability shall only be appointed
after consultation with the administrator of the division of mental
health and disability services of the department of human services on
the proposed appointments. Recommendations to the director or the
director's designee for membership on resident advocate committees
are encouraged from any agency, organization, or individual. The
administrator of the facility shall not be appointed to the resident
advocate committee and shall not be present at committee meetings
except upon request of the committee.
2. Each resident advocate committee shall periodically review the
needs of each individual resident of the facility and shall perform
the functions pursuant to sections 135C.38 and 231.44.
3. A health care facility shall disclose the names, addresses,
and phone numbers of a resident's family members, if requested, to a
resident advocate committee member, unless permission for this
disclosure is refused in writing by the family member. The facility
shall provide a form on which a family member may indicate a refusal
to grant this permission.
4. Neither the state nor any resident advocate committee member
is liable for an action by a resident advocate committee member in
the performance of duty, if the action is undertaken and carried out
in good faith. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135C.25] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 73, § 6; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1027; 87 Acts, ch 70, §
1; 88 Acts, ch 1068, §2; 94 Acts, ch 1170, §24; 99 Acts, ch 129, §5;
2006 Acts, ch 1115, §20; 2009 Acts, ch 23, §10
Referred to in § 135C.11, 135C.13, 225C.4