Arizona

Grounds stated in the sources

R9-10-408(A)(1) of the Arizona Administrative Code (Supp. 26-1, March 31, 2026): "A resident is transferred or discharged if:" "The nursing care institution is not authorized or not able to meet the needs of the resident, or" "The resident’s behavior is a threat to the health or safety of the resident or other individuals" at the institution. R9-10-408(B) adds nonpayment as a third basis, conditioned on notice: an administrator may transfer or discharge a resident for failure to pay for residency if "The resident or resident’s representative receives a 30-" "day written notice of transfer or discharge, and" "The 30-day written notice includes an explanation of the resident’s right to appeal the transfer or discharge." The rule is the Department of Health Services' licensing rule for nursing care institutions; it is the only enumeration of grounds in the sources reviewed.

Notice stated in the sources

R9-10-408(A)(2): documentation of a resident's transfer or discharge includes "The date of the transfer or discharge;" "The reason for the transfer or discharge;" and "A 30-day written notice except:" "In an emergency, or" "If the resident no longer requires nursing care institution services" as determined by a physician or the physician's designee. For nonpayment, R9-10-408(B) requires the 30-day written notice and its appeal explanation quoted above. Before discharge, written follow-up instructions must include "The state long-term care ombudsman’s name, address, and telephone number;" (R9-10-408(D)(1)(b)). The rule states no other required contents for the notice.

Hearing office in these sources

The rule requires the nonpayment notice to explain "the resident’s right to appeal the transfer or discharge." and names no office. The office that publishes a route is the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration, whose Appeal of a Discharge Form states: "The following information is necessary to file an appeal of transfer or discharge from a registered nursing facility. Please attach discharge paperwork from the nursing facility when submitting this form to the Office of the General Counsel." and prints the office as "Office of the General Counsel" "Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration (AHCCCS)" "150 N. 18th Ave., MD 15013" "Phoenix, AZ 85007" "Phone: 602-417-4232" "Email: NFdischarges@azahcccs.gov". AHCCCS's general appeals page states "All appeals need to be in writing." and prints the same office as "150 N. 18th Ave., MD-15013" "Phoenix, AZ 85007" "FAX: 602-253-9115". No filing deadline for a discharge appeal is stated in the sources reviewed.

Ombudsman in these sources

The program's own page: "Office of Arizona State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program" "1789 W. Jefferson Street, Mail Drop 6288" "Phoenix, Arizona 85007" "Phone: (602) 542-6454 extension 9" "Email:ltcop@azdes.gov". The page routes complaints to eight regional programs by county — for Maricopa County, "Area Agency on Aging, Region One" "(602) 264-4357"; for Pima County, "Pima Council on Aging" "(520) 790-7262" — and lists the rest.

Sources last checked

Sep 4, 2026

Reproduced from the agencies' own pages and documents quoted below — potentially relevant official sources, not a determination that any notice, ground, or deadline applies to any situation.

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This page assembles what Arizona's own publishers state about involuntary transfer and discharge from a nursing care institution. It is a baseline page: the docket rows and the source map are built; the grounds section and the published-process section are not yet written, as the change log records. The fullest single source is R9-10-408, Transfer; Discharge, in Article 4 of Title 9, Chapter 10 of the Arizona Administrative Code, published by the Secretary of State in Supp. 26-1 (March 31, 2026) and last amended effective October 1, 2019, which states two grounds and a conditioned third, a 30-day written notice with two exceptions, and the appeal explanation a nonpayment notice must carry. Arizona's own vocabulary is transfer or discharge of a resident from a nursing care institution; AHCCCS, the state Medicaid agency, calls the same act a discharge from a registered nursing facility.

Three publishers hold the pieces. The Secretary of State publishes the Department of Health Services' licensing rule. AHCCCS publishes the appeal form and the office that receives it, its Office of the General Counsel. The Department of Economic Security publishes the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program's page. The federal floor for Medicare/Medicaid-certified facilities is assembled separately on the federal page; nothing here fills a gap from federal law or another state. Confirm applicability with the agencies named in the sources: whether any provision applies to a particular facility, resident, or notice is for the hearing office to determine. Deadlines and periods on this page are quoted from the sources, not calculated for any case.