AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

May 15, 2000

AASA: BH 2000-013
Revised Interim Guideline 22 – Licensed Rooms

Dear Boarding Home Provider:

The procedures for notifying Aging and Disability Services Administration (AASA) of a boarding home’s “licensed rooms” (the rooms in which residents receiving domiciliary care reside) have been changed. For boarding home serving a mixture of independent residents and residents receiving domiciliary care, it is no longer necessary to send a copy of your licensed room list to the Application Intake Unit identifying the rooms in which independent residents, and residents receiving domiciliary care, live. However, it is still necessary to notify the application Intake Unit whenever there is a change in the licensed resident bed capacity (an increase or decrease in licensed capacity) by completing the “Change in Status to the Boarding Home Licensed Resident Bed Capacity” form.

Boarding Home Interim Guideline #22, and the licensed room list, have been changed to reflect this new procedure:

• Licensees must maintain in the boarding home a current roster of:
  • all residents receiving domiciliary care and
  • their roommates and
  • the rooms in which they reside/sleep
    • Do not send the roster to the Application Intake Unit
    • The roster must be immediately available to AASA licensing staff, the Long Term Care Ombudsman, and the Deputy State Fire Marshals.
    • The total number of residents on this roster should not exceed the licensed resident bed capacity.

Please review the enclosed revised Interim Guideline # 22 Licensed Rooms. If you have any questions please contact your Area Manager.

Sincerely,

Patricia K. Lashway, Director
Residential Care Services

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