Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning › Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development › Chapter 02 - Long Term Care › Section 15-8-90-02-201 - Housing for the Elderly

Current through June 25, 2024
Many elderly or infirmed people do not need skilled nursing
					 care on a daily basis, but may need safe, affordable housing and assistance
					 with one or more activities of daily living. Housing for the elderly and
					 infirmed population can take many forms.
"Board and care homes" are residences providing rooms
					 (often semi-private), shared common areas, meals, protective oversight, and
					 help with bathing, dressing, grooming, and other daily needs. In Mississippi,
					 these facilities are licensed as personal care homes: Personal Care Home -
					 Residential Living facilities and Personal Care Home - Assisted Living
					 facilities. Both types of facilities provide a sheltered environment and
					 assistance with activities of daily living. Additionally, Personal Care Homes -
					 Assisted Living may provide additional supplemental medical services that
					 include the provision of certain routine health maintenance and emergency
					 response services. In November of 2020, the state had 197 licensed personal
					 care homes, with a total of 7,628 licensed beds. Personal care facilities
					 presently are not reviewable under Certificate of Need authority.
"Retirement communities" or "senior housing facilities"
					 have become common around the state. These communities usually provide
					 apartments for independent living, with services such as transportation, weekly
					 or bi-weekly housekeeping, and one to three daily meals. Many of these
					 facilities include a licensed personal care home where the resident may move
					 when he or she is no longer physically or mentally able to remain in their own
					 apartment. Most facilities do not require an initial fee or require their
					 residents to sign a lifetime contract. Most facilities generally offer only
					 independent living and personal care. Most also do not include a skilled
					 nursing home as a part of the retirement community. Table 2-1 shows the
					 distribution of personal care facilities by Long-Term Care Planning
					 Districts.
Table 2-1
Personal Care Home Licensed Beds, Occupancy Rates
					 and Average Daily Census 2020
District I
County
Licensed Beds
Occupancy Rate %
Average Daily Census
Attala
30
100.00
30.00
Bolivar
137
69.84
95.68
Carroll
15
0.00
0.00
Coahoma
15
55.51
8.33
DeSoto
559
44.36
247.99
Grenada
63
69.17
43.58
Holmes
0
0.00
0.00
Humphreys
0
0.00
0.00
Leflore
80
81.72
65.37
Montgomery
0
0.00
0.00
Panola
54
86.10
46.50
Quitman
0
0.00
0.00
Sunflower
115
50.41
57.97
Tallahatchie
0
0.00
0.00
Tate
90
80.93
72.83
Tunica
0
0.00
0.00
Washington
207
48.90
101.23
Yalobusha
0
0.00
0.00
District Total
1,365
38.16
42.75
District II
County
Licensed Beds
Occupancy Rate %
Average Daily Census
Alcorn
129
70.28
90.66
Benton
0
0.00
0.00
Calhoun
20
65.86
13.17
Chickasaw
18
91.64
16.50
Choctaw
14
77.51
10.85
Clay
32
62.85
20.11
Itawamba
174
65.09
113.26
Lafayette
260
79.58
206.91
Lee
519
63.77
330.95
Lowndes
200
63.84
127.69
Marshall
46
86.55
39.81
Monroe
83
91.28
75.76
Noxubee
43
57.32
24.65
Oktibbeha
129
93.32
120.39
Pontotoc
40
70.04
28.02
Prentiss
55
65.26
35.89
Tippah
0
0.00
0.00
Tishomingo
97
83.02
80.53
Union
116
119.13
138.19
Webster
14
92.86
13.00
Winston
52
58.56
30.45
District Total
2,041
69.42
72.23
District III
County
Licensed Beds
Occupancy Rate %
Average Daily Census
Adams
46
68.39
31.46
Amite
0
0.00
0.00
Claiborne
20
100.00
20.00
Copiah
0
0.00
0.00
Franklin
0
0.00
0.00
Hinds
600
74.51
447.08
Jefferson
0
0.00
0.00
Lawrence
0
0.00
0.00
Lincoln
62
98.39
61.00
Madison
564
72.60
409.44
Pike
170
74.97
127.45
Rankin
440
87.61
385.50
Sharkey/Issaquena
0
0.00
0.00
Simpson
30
97.69
29.31
Walthall
0
0.00
0.00
Warren
73
77.11
56.29
Wilkinson
0
0.00
0.00
Yazoo
0
0.00
0.00
District Total
2,005
41.74
87.09
District IV
County
Licensed Beds
Occupancy Rate %
Average Daily Census
Clarke
55
84.68
46.57
Covington
36
76.28
27.46
Forrest
241
78.84
190.00
George
81
97.78
79.21
Greene
0
0.00
0.00
Hancock
32
50.71
16.23
Harrison
606
69.05
418.44
Jackson
154
76.24
117.42
Jasper
48
48.93
23.48
Jeff Davis
0
0.00
0.00
Jones
242
66.10
159.96
Kemper
0
0.00
0.00
Lamar
163
68.34
111.39
Lauderdale
241
63.25
152.42
Leake
0
0.00
0.00
Marion
22
58.11
12.78
Neshoba
53
70.36
37.29
Newton
75
19.75
14.81
Pearl River
69
91.30
63.00
Perry
0
0.00
0.00
Scott
31
90.80
28.15
Smith
0
0.00
0.00
Stone
16
31.25
5.00
Wayne
55
84.76
46.62
District Total
2,220
51.11
64.59
State Total
7,631
50.11
66.66373
Source: MSDH Division of Health Facilities Licensure and
					 Certification, 2020
"Continuing Care Retirement Communities" (CCRC), another
					 type of retirement community, includes three stages:
1) independent living in a private
				  apartment,
2) a personal care
				  facility, and
3) a skilled nursing
				  home. Residents of this type of facility enter into a contract whereby the
				  residents pay a substantial fee upon entering the CCRC and the facility agrees
				  to provide care for the remainder of the resident's life. Since CCRC beds are
				  licensed as skilled nursing facility beds, they are included in Table
				  2-2.