(a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall license assisted living services agencies, as defined in § 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, among other things, nursing services and assistance with activities of daily living to a population that is chronic and stable and may have a dementia special care unit or program as defined in §. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-490
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Health or the commissioner's designee. 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 § 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 § 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.

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