SB 6780

Community Living for
People with Developmental Disabilities
SB 6780
By November 1, 2010, DSHS is to submit a plan that:
Establishes additional community State Operated Living Alternatives, staffed by
many of the state employees from the RHCs, providing opportunities for staffclient
relationships from the RHCs to continue in the community;
Assesses and plans for each individual’s rights, health and safety, providing
appropriate support and services in a stable community setting;
Transitions all individuals who live in an RHC into their choice of either state
operated or private community supported living alternatives by December 2014;
Prepares clients and their families for transition to the community, including
visits to community living settings;
Assures that individuals moving from an RHC will be offered appropriate waiver
services and continue to be eligible for funding that meets their assessed need;
Starts transitioning portions of two RHCs, 1 on the east side and 1 on the west
side, to regional resources for crisis beds and respite as well as maintaining a
small number of skilled nursing beds to allow current RHC clients needing 24
hour skilled nursing to age in place.
Describes by December, 2012, how to:
• Close Francis Haddon Morgan Center
• Close portions of other RHC’s
• Establish 2 community state staffed resource teams
By December, 2014:
• Close remaining RHC’s
• Maintain or establish a small number of nursing facility beds
• Report to the Legislature regularly on the progress of implementation and
satisfaction levels of individuals transferred to the community
Prepared by The Arc of Washington State