Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-10-502. Cooperation between agencies

(a) The state agencies which administer funds for long-term care shall work together to achieve a coordinated and accessible network of long-term care and related community-based services, utilizing an orderly and effective interagency referral system.

(b) The state agencies shall develop procedures and guidelines to assure that coordination between state agencies in the long-term care network will take place.

(c) Nonstate agencies shall be encouraged to participate in the long-term care network.

(d) Any nonstate agency which receives state funds related to long-term care services shall be required to abide by the policies and procedures of the long-term care network.