Connecticut General Statutes 19a-564 – Assisted living services agencies. Licensure. Dementia special care approval. Regulations
(a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall license assisted living services agencies, as defined in section 19a-490. A managed residential community wishing to provide assisted living services shall become licensed as an assisted living services agency or shall arrange for assisted living services to be provided by another entity that is licensed as an assisted living services agency.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-564
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Assisted living services agency: means an agency that provides chronic and stable individuals with services that include, but need not limited to, nursing services and assistance with activities of daily living and may have a dementia special care unit or program as defined in section 19a-562. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Health or the commissioner's designee. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
- Home health agency: means an agency licensed as a home health care agency or a home health aide agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
- Home health care agency: means a public or private organization, or a subdivision thereof, engaged in providing professional nursing services and the following services, available twenty-four hours per day, in the patient's home or a substantially equivalent environment: Home health aide services as defined in this section, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy or medical social services. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
- Hospice agency: means a public or private organization that provides home care and hospice services to terminally ill patients. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
(b) A managed residential care community that intends to arrange for assisted living services shall only do so with a currently licensed assisted living services agency. Such managed residential community shall submit an application to arrange for the assisted living services to the Department of Public Health in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner.
(c) An elderly housing complex receiving assistance and funding through the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Assisted Living Conversion Program that intends to arrange for assisted living services may do so with a currently licensed assisted living services agency. Such elderly housing complex shall inform the Department of Public Health of the arrangement upon request in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner and shall not be required to register with the department as a managed residential community.
(d) An assisted living services agency providing services as a dementia special care unit or program, as defined in section 19a-562, shall obtain approval for such unit or program from the Department of Public Health. Such assisted living services agencies shall ensure that they have adequate staff to meet the needs of the residents. Each assisted living services agency that provides services as a dementia special care unit or program, as defined in section 19a-562, shall submit to the Department of Public Health a list of dementia special care units or locations and their staffing plans for any such units and locations when completing an initial or a renewal licensure application, or upon request from the department.
(e) An assisted living services agency shall ensure that (1) all services being provided on an individual basis to clients are fully understood and agreed upon between either the client or the client’s representative, and (2) the client or the client’s representative are made aware of the cost of any such services.
(f) The Department of Public Health may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of this section.
(g) An assisted living services agency may provide services that include, but need not be limited to, nursing services and assistance with activities of daily living to an individual who is no longer chronic and stable if (1) such individual is under the care of a licensed home health care agency or licensed hospice agency, or (2) such assisted living services agency is arranging, in conjunction with a managed residential community in accordance with subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 19a-694, for the provision of ancillary medical services on behalf of such individual, including physician and dental services, pharmacy services, restorative physical therapies, podiatry services, hospice care and home health agency services.