Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has identified several providers who continue to renew their comprehensive home care license annually even though they do not meet certain comprehensive home care statutory criteria.
MDH recognizes it may be unclear to providers whether it is necessary to maintain their comprehensive home care license even though they also have an assisted living license. While a provider may maintain both an assisted living and comprehensive home care licensee, Minnesota law requires the provider must meet certain statutory criteria to do so.
Comprehensive home care licensees are authorized under Minn. Stat. 144A.471 to provide home care services in the community at a client’s private home or in a healthcare facility. If a comprehensive home care licensee has not served at least one home care client in the past 12 months at the time of license renewal, MDH cannot renew the home care license. The client(s) served in the past 12 months must be a home care client (a client with a service agreement for home care services), not an assisted living resident. If a provider offers sleeping accommodations and assisted living services to one or more adults, the provider is required to maintain an assisted living facility or assisted living facility with dementia care license under Minn. Stat. 144G.08.
If an assisted living licensee also maintains a comprehensive home care license, the comprehensive home care services may only be provided to a client(s) in the community, not within the assisted living licensee’s assisted living building to assisted living residents.
If you have a comprehensive home care license and have not served a home care client in the past 12 months, or no longer intend to serve home care clients, please email MDH Home Care at health.homecare@state.mn.us so MDH may assist you with closing your home care license.
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