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Kentucky
Residential assisted living licensing rules and official state resources
- Licensure term
- Assisted - Living Communities
- Resident capacity
- No set maximum. Verify on City/County Level
- Staff ratios
- No minimum ratios. A sufficient number and type of staff must be available 24 hours a day to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs.
- Cost of licensing
- $20 per bed, minimum of $300
- Bedroom square footage
- 200 sq ft per living unit/bedroom
- Memory care
- https://chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dail/Documents/DAILSOPCH2ADCALZRESPITECombined.pdf
Full requirements
- Regulatory Agency
- Kentucky Department for Aging and Independent Living
- Contact Phone Number
- (502) 564-6930
- Licensure Term(s)
- Assisted - Living Communities
- Census Requirements
- No set maximum. Verify on City/County Level
- Qualifications for Managers
- An assisted-living community shall have a designated manager who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age, has at least a high school diploma and has demonstrated management or administrative ability to maintain daily operations.
- Qualifications for Caregivers
- All staff must receive orientation within 90 days of hire and in-service education annually on topics applicable to their assigned duties. If the assisted living community provides special programming, it must provide consumers a description of dementia-specific staff training provided, including but not limited to the content of the training, the number of offered and required hours of training, the schedule for training, and the staff who are required to complete the training.
- Staff Ratios
- No minimum ratios. A sufficient number and type of staff must be available 24 hours a day to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs.
- Cost of Licensing
- $20 per bed, minimum of $300
- Square Footage Requirements
- 200 sq ft per living unit/bedroom
- Bathrooms Required
- Private bathroom required for each living unit/bedroom