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m <br /> <br /> . <br /> STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA <br /> DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES <br /> <br /> October 23, 1981 <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br /> TO: Chairmao, County Gommis~ianers <br /> County Managers <br /> <br /> o. ,o ton OoegletX ¢ eput ector <br /> Division of Aging ~f~,,,. <br /> <br /> SUBJECT: Domiciliary He~e Resid~ntS~-Bill of Rights <br /> <br /> On ~uly 10, 1981, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted into <br /> law the Domiciliary Nome Residents~ Bill of Rights (House Bill 1098). The ef- <br /> fective date of the law is October 1, 198l, except the optional provision allows <br /> for establishing Community Advisory Committees, to be appointed by January <br /> 1982. <br /> <br /> The purpose of the law is to promote the interests and well being of <br />residents of domiciliary homes in the state licensed pursuant to G. S. i31C. <br />Its intent is to protect the civil and religious liberties of these residents as <br />well. The law purports to do this by establishing sixteen rights to which resi- <br />dents of domiciliary homes are entitled, directing the administrators of these <br />homes to carry out the residents' rights, directing the county director of social <br />services and the Department of Human Resources to enforce the law, and autho'r£s- <br />ing boards of county commissioners to establish community advisory committees <br />for domiciliary homes. <br /> <br /> The Domiciliary Home Bill of Rights pertain~ to the three types of <br />Domiciliary Homes including Fm~ily Care Homes, Homes for the Aged and Disabled, <br />and Group Homes for Developmentally Disabled Adults. Although this legislation <br />zs similar to the Nursing Home Patients' Bill of Rights (H. B. 1015), there are <br />significant differences between the two. The major difference is that in the <br />Nursing Home Bill of Rights community advisory ~committees are mandated in each <br />county that has at least one'nhreing-hor~e to monitor the~Hill of Rights and to <br />resolve any violations of the.patients'rights <br />the Domiciliary Hill of Rights the c~mnunity advisory committeee are optional, <br />and the implementatloe strategy utilizes the existing system of monitoring Rest <br />Homes. <br /> <br /> There are three pmr~r ~e¢~son~ t~ ~, B. ~OqS. The first important <br />section is the Declaration of Residents~ Rights. Sixteen residents' rights are <br />delineated that are somewhat ~imilar ~o the Patients' Bill of Rights although <br /> <br /> \ <br /> <br /> <br />