WAC 388-845-0900. What are environmental adaptations?

(1) Environmental adaptations provide minimum necessary physical adaptations to the client's existing home and existing rooms within the home required by the individual's person-centered service plan needed to: (a) Ensure the health, welfare, and safety of the individual; (b) Enable the individual who would otherwise require institutionalization to function with greater independence in the home; and (c) Increase the individual's independence inside or outside the home to allow the individual to physically enter and move within the home. (2) Examples of environmental adaptations include installing stair lifts, installing ramps and grab bars, widening doorways, modifying the individual's primary bathroom for physical access needs, or installing specialized electrical or plumbing systems necessary to accommodate the medical equipment and supplies that are necessary for the welfare of the individual. (3) Environmental adaptations are available in all of the DDA HCBS waivers. (4) Environmental adaptations to the home are not available in provider-owned or provider-leased residential settings. (5) Adaptations to the home necessary to prevent or repair damage to the structure of the home caused by the participant's behavior, as addressed in the participant's behavior support plan, are available on the children's intensive in-home behavioral support, individual and family services, core, and community protection waivers.