Specialty Care Assisted Living Facilities - Alabama Department of ...
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<strong>Specialty</strong> <strong>Care</strong> <strong>Assisted</strong> <strong>Living</strong> <strong>Facilities</strong> Chapter 420-5-20<br />
<strong>of</strong> the normal audible fire alarm signals. These drills may be conducted without disturbing<br />
sleeping residents, by using simulated residents or empty wheelchairs.<br />
Author: Victor Hunt<br />
Statutory Authority: Code <strong>of</strong> Ala., 1975, 22-21-20, et. seq.<br />
History: Repealed and Replaced: Filed October 18, 2001; effective November 22, 2001.<br />
Amended: Filed September 22, 2008; effective October 27, 2008<br />
420-5-20-.12 Physical Plant<br />
(1) General.<br />
(a)<br />
Building Classification.<br />
1. Family specialty care assisted living facilities shall be planned to serve the<br />
types <strong>of</strong> residents to be admitted and shall comply with the Life Safety Code Chapter for Oneand<br />
Two-Family Dwellings, and shall comply with sections (1), (2), (3), and (4) <strong>of</strong> AAC Rule<br />
420-5-20-.12.<br />
2. Group specialty care assisted living facilities shall be planned to serve the<br />
residents to be admitted and shall comply with Section (1), (2), (3), (5) and (7) <strong>of</strong> AAC Rule<br />
420-5-20-.12.<br />
3. Congregate specialty care assisted living facilities shall be planned to serve the<br />
residents to be admitted and shall comply with Sections (1), (2), (3), (6) and (7) <strong>of</strong> AAC Rule<br />
420-5-20-.12.<br />
4. Renovation within the exterior walls <strong>of</strong> a specialty care assisted living facility<br />
shall in no case be <strong>of</strong> such nature as to lower the character <strong>of</strong> the structure below the<br />
applicable building requirements for the classification <strong>of</strong> license held by the assisted living<br />
facility.<br />
5. Dually licensed facilities.<br />
(i) For the purposes <strong>of</strong> meeting physical facility and building code requirements,<br />
a building housing both a regular assisted living facility and a specialty care assisted living<br />
facility shall be classified as a g Group or Congregate facility in accordance with the<br />
combined licensed bed capacities <strong>of</strong> both facilities. For the purposes <strong>of</strong> meeting resident care<br />
and administrative requirements, the specialty care assisted living facility and the regular<br />
assisted living facility shall be separately considered, and each shall be classified as a<br />
Congregate facility or a Group facility in accordance with the licensed bed capacity <strong>of</strong> each,<br />
and the determination shall not be based on their combined bed capacity. Resident care and<br />
administrative requirements are found in sections 420-5-20-.01 through 420-5-20-.07 <strong>of</strong> these<br />
rules, and in sections 420-5-4-.01 through 420-5-4-.07 <strong>of</strong> the assisted living facility rules.<br />
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