Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 902 - CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES - DEPARTMENT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH › Chapter 20 - Health Services and Facilities › Section 902 KAR 20:078 - Operations and services; group homes

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				216B.010,
				216B.015,
				216B.040,
				216B.042,
				216B.045-216B.055,
				216B.075,
				216B.105-216B.131,
				216B.990,
				311.560(4),
				314.011(8),
				320.210(2)
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				216B.042 requires the Kentucky Cabinet for
				Health Services to regulate health facilities and health services. This
				administrative regulation establishes licensure requirements for group
				homes.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Developmental disability" means a severe
			 chronic disability which is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or
			 combination of mental and physical impairments manifested before the person
			 attains the age of twenty-two (22) and is likely to continue indefinitely. This
			 disability results in substantial limitations in areas of major life activity
			 including self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility,
			 capacity for independent living and economic sufficiency and requires
			 individually planned and coordinated services of a lifelong or extended
			 duration.
(2) "Mental retardation"
			 means a significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing
			 concurrently with deficiencies in adaptive behavior which is first manifested
			 during the developmental period.
(3) "Normalization principle" means the
			 utilization of means which are as culturally normative as possible in order to
			 establish and maintain personal behavior and characteristics which are as
			 culturally normative as possible.
(4) "Qualified mental retardation or
			 developmental disability professional" means:
(a) A physician with specialized training or
			 one (1) year of experience in treating persons with mental retardation or
			 developmental disabilities;
(b) A
			 psychologist with a doctoral or master's degree from an accredited program with
			 specialized training or one (1) year of experience in treating persons with
			 mental retardation or developmental disabilities;
(c) An educator with at least a bachelor's
			 degree in education and with specialized training or one (1) year of experience
			 in working with persons with mental retardation or developmental
			 disabilities;
(d) A social worker
			 with at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited program and with
			 specialized training or one (1) year of experience working with persons having
			 mental retardation or developmental disabilities, or a field other than social
			 work and at least three (3) years of social work experience under the
			 supervision of a qualified social worker;
(e) A licensed physical therapist or an
			 occupational therapist who is a graduate of a program of physical or
			 occupational therapy approved by the Council on Medical Education of the
			 American Medical Association and who has specialized training or one (1) year
			 of experience in treating persons with mental retardation or developmental
			 disabilities;
(f) A speech
			 pathologist or audiologist who has been granted a certificate of clinical
			 competence by the American Speech and Hearing Association or who has completed
			 the equivalent educational and experimental requirements for such a certificate
			 and has specialized training or one (1) year of experience in training persons
			 with mental retardation or developmental disabilities;
(g) A registered nurse who has specialized
			 training or one (1) year of experience in treating persons with mental
			 retardation or developmental disabilities;
(h) A therapeutic recreation specialist who
			 is a graduate of an accredited program and licensed or registered by the state
			 if required; or
(i) A
			 rehabilitation counselor who is certified by the commission on Rehabilitation
			 Counselor Certification.