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(a) An assisted living home shall provide safeguards to ensure that persons entering or living in the home, including employees, volunteers, contractors, and visitors do not abuse, neglect, or exploit a resident of the home. An assisted living home shall

(1) develop and implement written policies and procedures that prohibit the abuse, neglect, exploitation, and mistreatment of residents;

(2) report alleged or suspected abuse to a local, municipal, or state law enforcement agency;

(3) take any necessary action to remove the potential for further abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment of a resident or further misappropriation of a resident’s property;

(4) document alleged or suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment by an employee, a volunteer, a contractor, a visitor, or another resident;

(5) investigate alleged or suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or mistreatment by an employee, a volunteer, a contractor, a visitor, or another resident;

(6) document the result of the investigation and the corrective action taken; and

(7) submit the documentation prepared under this subsection to the department as required in AS 47.32.200(c). (b) A person seeking to be associated with an assisted living home in a manner described in 7 AAC 10.900(b) shall provide

(1) the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three character references who are unrelated to the person seeking association with the assisted living home;

(2) at least two employment references; an employment reference may also serve as a character reference required under (1) of this subsection; and

(3) the signed release of information authorization and other items required to request a criminal history check under 7 AAC 10.910. (c) A person who will be in direct contact with residents in an assisted living home shall provide evidence to the administrator that the person is free from active pulmonary tuberculosis before contact with a resident. This evidence must be provided annually and must be placed in the person’s file for review by the department. (d) Before hiring, the administrator shall ensure that each person who will be in direct, unsupervised contact with residents in an assisted living home has sufficient language skills to meet the needs of the residents of the home and the ability to access emergency services, including giving clear directions to emergency personnel of the home’s location and describing the nature of the emergency in the primary language of the community. The administrator shall assess language skill level for employees, contractors, and volunteers. The department will assess the language skill level of the administrator.