The Department shall have the following responsibilities regarding long-term care services in the Commonwealth: 1. Develop appropriate fiscal and administrative controls over public long-term care services in the Commonwealth; 2. Develop a state long-term care plan to guide the coordination and delivery of services by the human resources agencies, including transportation services. The plan shall ensure the development of a continuum of long-term care programs and services for impaired older persons in need of services; 3. Identify programmatic resources and assure the equitable statewide distribution of these resources; and 4. Perform ongoing evaluations of the cost-effective utilization of long-term care resources. 2012, cc. 803 , 803 .
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