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Individual Applicants providing Environmental Assessment Services must meet the following standards:
1. Demonstrate compliance with general requirements for providers on page 4;
2. Demonstrate compliance with required credentials, license, and certifications, and experience for an
Environmental Assessment Professional;
3. Be at least 18 years or older;
4. Complete any specific training and orientation designated by DDA;
5. Possess a valid driver’s license, if the operation of a vehicle is necessary to provide services;
6. Have automobile insurance for automobiles that are owned and used to deliver the service; and
7. Have three (3) professional references which attest to the provider’s ability to deliver the service/support in
compliance with the Department’s values in Annotated Code of Maryland, Health-General, Title 7.
D. Environmental Modification
An environmental modification is a physical modification to a participant’s home based on an assessment, and
the modification is designed to support the participant’s efforts to function with greater independence or to
create a safer, healthier environment for the participant. Environmental modifications include but are not
limited to installation of grab bars, access ramps, railings, alarms or locks on windows, doors, and fences,
protective padding on walls, floors and pipes, Plexiglas and other forms of glass for safety, outside gates and
fences, safety screen doors, bathroom modifications, lifts and stair glides, kitchen modifications, detectable
warnings on walking surfaces, alerting devices for participants who have hearing or sight impairments,
adaptations to electrical, telephone, and lighting systems, generators to support medical and health devices that
require electricity, widening of doorways and halls; door openers, and equipment which raise or lower
electrical switches for participants’ safety.
A Vendor completing an Environmental Modification must meet the following minimum standards:
1. Demonstrate compliance with general and business/agency provider requirements, as applicable on page 4;
2. Be approved as a vendor with the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS), have a current license, and
a current contract who meets requirements in 5a through h below;
3. Attest that if approved as a vendor, will verify staff, contractors or subcontractors, qualifications, licenses,
and credentials for contractors employed, and/or with whom a contract is established, and will have a copy
of these documents for inspection;
4. Obtain, in accordance with the Department of Licensing and Labor requirements, a Home Improvement
License in completion of certain projects where an existing structure is modified;
5. Demonstrate compliance with requirements for home contractors or sub-contractors of services including:
a. Being properly licensed or certified by the State;
b. Being in good standing with the Department of Assessment and Taxation;
c. Being bonded as is legally required;
d. Obtaining all required State and local permits;
e. Obtaining final required inspections;
f. Performing all work in accordance with ADA, State and local building codes;
g. Ensuring that the work passes the required inspections including as performed in accordance with
ADA, State and local building codes; and
h. Providing services according to a written schedule indicating an estimated start date and completion
date and progress reports.
Agencies - Qualified Service Providers rendering Environmental Modification Services must meet the
following standards: