Funding And Grant Award Amounts

(1) Funding for the Grant Program is provided from the Nursing Home Resident Trust Account, established with State and/or federal civil monetary penalties collected through enforcement activities against nursing homes. (2) No more than $50,000 shall be expended from the State's Nursing Home Resident Trust Account in any fiscal year to finance the Eden Alternative™ Grant Assistance Program. (3) A maximum of ten (10) Eden Alternative™ grants, of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) each, shall be awarded in any fiscal year from the State's Nursing Home Resident Trust Account. (4) Of the ten (10) facilities selected to receive grant awards annually, at least five (5) shall be nursing homes, three (3) shall be assisted care living facilities, and two (2) shall be homes for the aged. (5) Should the Department receive fewer grant proposals than the allotted number for any facility type in any fiscal year, the Coalition may select from grant proposals submitted by other facility types for that year and the Commissioner is authorized to award the grants to such other Coalition-recommended facility types for that year. (6) Should the Department determine, in any fiscal year, that insufficient funds exist in the State's Nursing Home Resident Trust Account to implement this program, the Commissioner may augment available State Nursing Home Resident Trust Account funds with private donations to ensure that sufficient funding is available to implement this program each year. (7) Should the Department become the recipient of additional funding from state or federal allocations, private donations or grants for the purpose of implementing, administering or continuing this program, the Commissioner may utilize such funds to issue additional grants, to educate the public about the Eden Alternative™, and to further the implementation of the Eden Alternative™ Grant Assistance Program.