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The official licensure term is “Assisted Living Facilities”
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The term “Assisted Living Center” is used when the center serves 11 or more residents
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Assisted Living Home is the term used when the home serves 10 or fewer residents
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Each type of facility can be licensed as providing supervisory care, personal care, or directed care services
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Assisted Living Facility is a residential care institution with adult foster care that provides all three levels of care
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Supervisory Care Services include:
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General supervision
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Daily awareness of resident and changing needs of resident
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Crisis intervention
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Self-
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Personal Care Services include:
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Assistance with daily activities (performed by non-
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Provide or coordinate intermittent nursing services
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Administration of medications and other treatments by a licensed nurse
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Directed Care Services include:
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Personal care services for people unable to recognize danger, summon assistance, express need, or make basic care decisions
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Who can be admitted?
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Supervisory Care Services:
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Adults who need help with daily activities that can be performed with professional skills or professional training.
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Personal Care Services:
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Adults who need help with daily activities
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Adults who need intermittent nursing
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Directed Care Services:
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Adults who need Personal Care Services, but cannot direct that care themselves
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Adults who require physical or chemical restraints
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Adults who require services the facility is not able to provide
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Adults who endanger the health and safety of others
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Adults who cannot direct their own care,
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Adults needing continuous nursing services
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Bed bound Adults, unless it is due to a short term injury or the facility has made special arrangements with the resident for their extra care
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Adults with stage 3 or 4 pressure sores; unless written authorization by a physician is obtained or the resident is under care of a home health agency or hospice agency.
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Adults needing continuous nursing
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Bed bound Adults unless it is due to a short term injury or the facility has made special arrangements with the resident for their extra care
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Adults with stage 3 or 4 pressure sores unless written authorization by a physician is obtained or the resident is under care of a home health agency or hospice agency.
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Residents who are ineligible under admission guidelines (see above)
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Residents with an issue of medical urgency
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Residents who fail to pay or violate their contract
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Residents who are ineligible under admission guidelines (see above)
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Residents who are ineligible under admission guidelines (see above)
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Exceptions to eviction
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Residents who need continuous nursing services that are able to contract with licensed hospice services to provide that care
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Complete 20 hours of training, or the time necessary to prove competency prior to beginning work
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Certified in First Aid and CPR
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Completes 6 hours of continuing education per year
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Complete 30 hours of training, or the time necessary to prove competency prior to beginning work
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Caregivers must also be competent in providing supervisory care services
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50 hours total of training
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Complete 12 hours of training prior to beginning work
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Caregivers must also be competent at providing supervisory and personal care services
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62 hours total of training
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Not specified
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Yes; the Medicaid program may pay for assisted living services through a Home and Community Based Services Waiver
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