Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 902 - CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES - DEPARTMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH › Chapter 20 - Health Services and Facilities › Section 902 KAR 20:350 - Boarding homes

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 216B.300-216B.320,
				216B.990
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				216B.305 mandates that the Cabinet for Health
				Services adopt standards through administrative regulation relating to boarding
				homes. This administrative regulation provides the standards for the operation
				of boarding homes. Executive Order 96-862, effective July 2, 1996, reorganizes
				the Cabinet for Human Resources and places the Department for Public Health and
				its programs under the Cabinet for Health Services.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Home" means a boarding home.
(2) "Registrant" means the owner of the
			 home.
(3) "Manager" means person
			 responsible for the day-to-day operation of the home.
(4) "Resident" means any person, including a
			 boarder as defined in
			 KRS
			 216B.300(3), other than the
			 registrant, manager or person related to the registrant or manager, who is
			 living in the home. The resident may require some minimal degree of assistance
			 or supervision, but not to the level of care provided by family care homes or
			 personal care homes.
(5)
			 "Potentially hazardous food" means any food or ingredient, natural or
			 synthetic:
(a) In a form capable of
			 supporting:
1. The rapid and progressive
			 growth of infections or toxigenic microorganisms; or
2. The slower growth of Clostridium
			 botulinum.
(b) Of animal
			 origin, either raw or heat treated; and
(c) Of plant origin which:
1. Has been treated; or
2. Is raw seed sprouts.
(d) The following are excluded:
1. Air dried hard boiled eggs with shells
			 intact;
2. Food with water activity
			 (aw) value of 0.85 or less;
3. Food
			 with a hydrogen ion concentration (ph) level of four and six-tenths (4.6) or
			 below;
4. Food in unopened
			 hermetically sealed containers that have been commercially processed to achieve
			 and maintain commercial sterility under conditions of nonrefrigerated storage
			 and distribution; and
5. Food for
			 which laboratory evidence demonstrates that rapid and progressive growth of
			 infectious and toxigenic microorganisms or the slower growth of Clostridium
			 botulinum cannot occur.
(6) "Human services center or facility" means
			 a facility that provides full or part-time care to children or adults. This
			 term shall include:
(a) Day care
			 center;
(b) Family child care
			 home;
(c) Adult day care
			 center;
(d) Adult day health care
			 facility;
(e) Family care
			 home;
(f) Group home for the
			 mentally retarded or developmentally disabled;
(g) Acute care, psychiatric, or comprehensive
			 physical rehabilitation hospital;
(h) Intermediate care facility;
(i) Nursing facility;
(j) Nursing home;
(k) Personal care home;
(l) Skilled nursing facility;
(m) Psychiatric residential treatment
			 facility;
(n) Child caring
			 facility;
(o) Child placing
			 agency;
(p) Rural primary care
			 hospital;
(q) Alzheimer nursing
			 home;
(r) Youth camp;
(s) Boarding home; or
(t) Alternate intermediate service for the
			 mentally retarded or developmentally delayed.