R510-200-2. Purpose  


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  •   (1) The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program is created for the purpose of promoting, advocating, and ensuring the adequacy of care received, and the quality of life experienced by residents of long-term care facilities within the State.

      (2) This provision does not limit the authority of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program to provide ombudsman services to populations other than residents of long-term care facilities so long as the appropriations under the Act are utilized to serve residents of long-term care facilities, as authorized by the Act.