The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the development, establishment, and enforcement of standards for the construction, maintenance, operation, provision of receivership, and dissolution of long-term care facilities in which medical, nursing, or other care is rendered, which will promote safe surroundings, adequate care, and humane treatment, safeguard the health of, safety of, and continuity of care to residents, and protect residents from the adverse health effects caused by abrupt or unsuitable transfer of such persons cared for in these facilities. (Amended 2009, No. 36, § 1.)