# Plain-English Summary South Dakota is moving its nursing facility screening rules to a new location and making several key changes to how facilities determine if residents need mental health or developmental disability services. Nursing facilities must now screen all new admissions for serious mental illness, intellectual disability, and developmental disability—and the state has added a new emergency placement option (up to 7 days for people experiencing abuse, neglect, or natural disasters) that bypasses the full screening process. The rules no longer exempt people age 75 and older from screening, no longer require screening for swing beds, and clarify the difference between categorical exemptions (which skip screening entirely) and regular exemptions from the full evaluation process. State mental health and developmental disability authorities now have clearer responsibilities for conducting evaluations and making placement decisions, and nursing facilities cannot admit someone unless the state authorities approve it.
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The existing PASRR rules will be repealed. The new PASRR rules will be located in a different article, and remove the 75+ age categorical, add a new emergency placement categorial option, remove swing bed from the PASRR requirements, better detail the difference between a PASRR exemption versus a categorical determination, and to better detail the responsibilities of the State Medicaid Authority and Mental Health Authority.
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