Section 225C.28A. Service quality standards.

  As the state participates more fully in funding services and other support to persons with an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, or chronic mental illness, it is the intent of the general assembly that the state shall seek to attain the following quality standards in the provision of the services:

  1.  Provide comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis adapted to the cultural background, primary language, and ethnic origin of the person.

  2.  Provide an individual treatment, habilitation, and program plan.

  3.  Provide treatment, habilitation, and program services that are individualized, provided to produce results, flexible, and cost-effective, as appropriate.

  4.  Provide periodic review of the individual plan.

  5.  Provide for the least restrictive environment and age-appropriate services.

  6.  Provide appropriate training and employment opportunities so that the person’s ability to contribute to and participate in the community is maximized.

  7.  Provide an ongoing process to determine the degree of access to and the effectiveness of the services and other support in achieving the disability services outcomes and indicators identified by the commission pursuant to section 225C.6.

92 Acts, ch 1241, §66

; 2006 Acts, ch 1115, §8

; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §71